Philosophy Books
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-…
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom “Eloquent, clear and profou…
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize "A beautifully accessible guide.…On…
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming huma…
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you’re willing to risk the conse…
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)
How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhan…
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge ha…
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the prese…
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
Leading scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that …
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…