Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
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A new history looks at how innovation helps - or doesn’t help - the disadvantaged.
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An Internet for the People by Jessa Lingel
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Jessa Lingel’s book argues that the key to fixing the Internet may come from the least likely source imaginable …
Read MoreThe Passion Economy by Adam Davidson
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Once upon a time, you got a job with a company and simply stayed there until you retired. A new century’s rules sometimes seem radically different. A book by Adam Davidson explores the altered terrain.
Read MoreThe Reality Game by Samuel Woolley
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As this book makes frighteningly clear, “fake news” and “alternative facts” are just the barest beginning of coming problem with telling the difference between truth and lies …
Read MoreIngenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson
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Observations that have been made in a hundred other places, and a hundred times better.
Read MoreKnow-It-All Society by Michael Patrick Lynch
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Lynch encourages us to quest for knowledge by constant inquiry.
Read MoreFall, or, Dodge in Hell By Neal Stephenson
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A fascinating fictional exploration of post-Singularity consciousness lumbering around in a foam fat suit.
Read MoreBored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt
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Are iPhones, iPads, GPS, and the Internet exacerbating negatives and simultaneously eroding the positives?
Read MoreLeft To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright
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Young digital natives deserve better than this hyperventilating wad of pseudoscience.
Read MoreAmerican Cosmic by D. W. Pasulka
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Pasulka deals with two general groups of people who “interpret, spin, produce, and market the story of UFO events to the general public.”
Read MoreWatch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming by T.L. Taylor
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A study of Twitch, live streaming, and the far-reaching impact it has on gaming culture and modern media consumption.
Read MoreFuture Politics by Jamie Susskind
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Outlines how emerging technologies shape our democracy and culture, and how this might look in the future.
Read MoreClick Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
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This book advocates for common-sense precautions by companies, governments, and individuals so we can enjoy the benefits of technolgoy without falling prey to its vulnerabilities.
Read MoreChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
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Plokhy's new history gives us as much about the Chernobyl disaster as we're ever likely to know.
Read MoreTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
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One of the architects the digital world in the 1980s takes aim at social media.
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