Essays Books
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology an…
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” Cory D…
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our s…
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy…
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…
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be moneti…
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettli…
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, from the author of the seminal Close to th…
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…
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology.