Sociology Books
Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepar…
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce Whit…
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty year…
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way …
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the wa…
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS AND LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit – a …
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.
Who Owns the Future?
The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening …
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
"The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about th…
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Consider Facebook—it’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it deliv…