Technology Books
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effect…
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shippin…
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads hailed it as the…
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an a…
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes…
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founde…
iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later…
The Road Ahead
Welcome to “The Road Ahead.” We have all been bombarded by the seemingly endless hype about the information highway and the coming age of technolo…
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
If you pick your books by their popularity--how many and which other people are reading them--then know this about The Search: it's probably on Bi…
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …