Social Aspects
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What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart. —The New York Times Book Review
From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford pr- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Daub, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538646
- Language: English
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The Switch: An Off and on History of Digital Humans
$34.95 Read moreFrom the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that h
- Author: Puskar, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915406
- Language: English
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The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
$32.99 Add to cartUncover the fascinating history of virtual communities and how we connect to each other online. The Rise of Virtual Communities, explores the earliest online community platforms, mapping the technolog
- Author: Atherton, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: April 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1484292960
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
$26.90 Add to cartFrom a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood–and what we can do about it
“Engrossi- Author: Linn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978334
- Language: English
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Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
$11.95 Add to cart“A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propagan… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1789042305
- Language: English
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
$24.99 Add to cart“The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you’re willing to risk the consequences. ” –from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from t… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1449389554
- Language: English
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Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
$18.99 Add to cartLove, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner
A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanica
- Author: Levy, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061359807
- Language: English
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Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
$17.99 Add to cartA call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control o- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 154177373X
- Language: English
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Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
$17.99 Add to cart“A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age.” –Bob Woodward
“Incisive … Refreshing … Compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyo
- Author: Powers, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0061687170
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
$32.65 Read moreFrom a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood–and what we can do about it
“Engrossi- Author: Linn, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1620972271
- Language: English
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartGoogle Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom begins with familiar cultural politics as points of entry to the book’s theme regarding the reach, penetration, and soon the ubiquit
- Author: Rectenwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1943003262
- Language: English
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Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the People, Ideas, and Gadgets That Made the Tech World
$45.99 Add to cartHacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by longtime cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley, this fun reference introduces you to key people an
- Author: Crawley, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1098145674
- Language: English
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Confessions of an AI Brain
$29.99 Add to cartHave you thought of how it feels to be an AI brain in the world of humans? This book allows such a brain to tell us how it takes on its mission of helping humans to develop a more efficient, sustainab… [more below]
- Author: Fersman, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 3031259343
- Language: English
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The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
$25.00 Read moreOn the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
To impair the racial ordering of the world, The Black Technical Object introduces the history of st- Series: Sternberg Press / The Antipolitical
- Author: Amaro, Ramon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 3956795636
- Language: English
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
$26.95 Read moreFive mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the “Event” the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0393881067
- Language: English
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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the visionary head of Google’s innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work — and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your busine… [more below]
- Author: Bock, Laszlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1455554812
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
$19.95 Read more“Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.”–David Byrne, New York Times Book Review
How the history of tec- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210799
- Language: English
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The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment
$32.95 Add to cartIn his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.
“Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning, t- Series: Management on the Cutting Edge
- Author: Siegel, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048906
- Language: English
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World
$20.00 Add to cart“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world–and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” –President Bill Clinton
A radic- Series: Exponential Technology
- Author: Diamandis, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 23, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476709580
- Language: English
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Expand: Stretching the Future by Design
$27.00 Read moreToday, it can seem as if the world has nothing but problems.
And more than ever the boundaries of those problems are expanding in terms of the speed, scale, and impact by which they can alter business- Author: Bason, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 24, 2022
- ISBN10: 1637740735
- Language: English
