Popular Science Books
A New Kind of Science
Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments—illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics—Stephen Wolfram shows how their un…
Complexity: A Guided Tour
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce somethin…
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you…
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Artificial intelligence does the …
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space. Human civilization is on the ve…
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the singl…
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future t…
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and m…
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means…
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of …