Science & Technology Policy
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Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse
$26.95 Read moreWhy laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people–and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.
Ever-p- Author: Renieris, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047829
- Language: English
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No Limits: The Inside Story of China’s War with the West
$29.99 Read moreThe riveting and mostly untold story about the battle for financial and technological power and mastery between the West and China over the last decade.
Since China joined the WTO in December 2001, th- Author: Small, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1685890199
- Language: English
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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The New Technology State: How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares–And What We Can Do about It
$26.95 Read more“Bill Raduchel started at Harvard as my father’s student, assistant, and friend. He went on to a career in technology as the digital revolution unfolded before his eyes. In The New Technology State, h
- Author: Raduchel, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637557469
- Language: English
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$30.00 Read morePrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882314
- Language: English
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Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
$24.95 Read more“For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibility in this intriguing book, which urges the developmen… [more below]
- Author: Tarnoff, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1839762020
- Language: English
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Cómo Funciona El Mundo: Una GuÃa CientÃfica de Nuestro Pasado, Presente Y Futuro / How the World Really Works
$22.95 Read moreUn sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro.
«Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto, por favor, lee este… [more below]- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 841861935X
- Language: Spanish
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Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
$26.95 Read moreA surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.
It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri reall- Author: Neuman, W. Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048485
- Language: English
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The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
$30.00 Read moreAN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022
At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equa- Author: Lobel, Orly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541774752
- Language: English
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Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
$27.00 Add to cartBillions of people around the world lack internet access. No one cared until the whole world had to go online.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that the United States would close the digital div
- Author: Lee, Nicol Turner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0815738986
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
$18.95 Add to cartHow Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, me- Author: Marcus, Gary F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551063
- Language: English
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
$19.95 Add to cartA USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity “An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our di- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292141
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$27.95 Add to cartAn insider offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,”- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241171
- Language: English
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Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition): What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
$21.95 Add to cartIn this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change–with unbiased facts… [more below]
- Author: Koonin, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745257
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
$28.95 Read moreFrom one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139010
- Language: English
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Tech Monopoly
$16.95 Read moreA serious look at competition problems in tech markets and whether antitrust law can help address them.
In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft ha
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hovenkamp, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548747
- Language: English
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
$15.95 Add to cartThe Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of
- Author: Levitan, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 039335332X
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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Crushed: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech with a Foreword by Senator Ted Cruz
$29.99 Add to cartAMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK
“No one–conservative or liberal–should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.
- Author: Buck, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1630062472
- Language: English
