Cultural Books
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and wh…
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public di…
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…
What Technology Wants
"Verbalizing visceral feelings about technology, whether attraction or repulsion, Kelly explores the “technium,” his term for the globalized, inte…
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling - and limiting - the information we consume. <…
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…
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and …
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From trendy restaurants to city gr…
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influen…
12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integra…