Philosophy Books


Brave New World

Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citize…

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The Medium is the Massage

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that w…

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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET " Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fu…

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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be in…

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Computability and Logic

Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not …

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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of …

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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal leve…

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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…

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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its a…

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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize art…

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