Cultural Books
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” ( The New Yorker ), masterfully argues that never befor…
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user In a shockingly short amo…
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
One of Michiko Kakutani's ( New York Times ) top ten books of 2016 A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to …
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money…
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisel…
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first tim…
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
“This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug…
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life…
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, aut…
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free…