Internet Books
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…
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…
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…
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such exampl…
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
The instant New York Times bestseller. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful …
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
The definitive guide to the cloud computing revolution. Hailed as "the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement" (Chris…
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…
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success …
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. In litt…
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they wer…