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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ours…
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today's industrial revolution will…
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effect…
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shippin…
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an a…
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes…
iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later…
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data s…