Society Books
The Technological Society
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its fi…
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if y…
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the prese…
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-…
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledg…
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torren…
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such exampl…
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and…
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A riveting story of what it…