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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship o…
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to cha…
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he …
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for …
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be in…
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in …
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history…
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty year…
Who Owns the Future?
The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening …
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
"The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about th…