Internet Books
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torren…
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxie…
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-…
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledg…
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling - and limiting - the information we consume. <…
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-…
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…
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting sto…
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been …
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it chan…