Politics Books
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targ…
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no social media—beckons, and settling the …
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated so…
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed…
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-t…
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
We are just beginning to see a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make the stuff of I, Robot and the Terminator all too real. …
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…
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…
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United …
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak,…