Psychology Books
You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring …
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the…
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global…
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, a…
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the f…
The Emperor's New Mind
In his bestselling work of popular science, Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating roller-coaster ride through the basic principles of physics, c…
Industrial Society and Its Future
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those o…
Future Shock
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.