Social Aspects
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A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
$16.00 Add to cartIn this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinat… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375726187
- Language: English
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World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy
$32.00 Add to cartAn urgent and illuminating perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture capital ethos is reaching all areas of our lives, into everything from healthcare to foo… [more below]
- Author: Bracy, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593473485
- Language: English
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Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology
$34.95 Add to cartAn urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings
In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism a- Author: Golumbia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1517918146
- Language: English
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The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
$17.99 Add to cartIn this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and th
- Author: Kurczy, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0062945505
- Language: English
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The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality
$110.75 Add to cartAs AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are sub
- Author: Adams, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553096
- Language: English
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Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI–as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children… [more below]
- Author: Kai, de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 262049767
- Language: English
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The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World–And Shapes Our Future
$30.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that is more positive and human centered.
In the digital world, code is the essential pr- Author: Arbesman, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704487
- Language: English
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium–winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
From the nursery- Author: Zeavin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049554
- Language: English
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The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
$18.99 Add to cartWall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year
Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution ar
- Author: Steiner-Adair, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062082434
- Language: English
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
$19.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet–revealing how online influence and the creators who amass- Author: Lorenz, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982146877
- Language: English
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The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
$26.95 Add to cartOne unforgettable journey through seven infrastructure systems across sixteen world cities.
- Author: Derrible, Sybil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086642
- Language: English
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Like: The Button That Changed the World
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting, insider’s look at the creation and evolution of the like button and what it reveals about innovation, business, and culture–and its profound impact on modern human interaction.
Over seven
- Author: Reeves, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave: Ai, Power, and Our Future
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance–fr… [more below]
- Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593593979
- Language: English
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
$32.00 Add to cartFrom a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman’s OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshapi… [more below]
- Author: Hao, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657500
- Language: English
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The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
$29.95 Add to cartWhy the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, pr
- Author: Oberhaus, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026204935X
- Language: English
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Big Data
$16.99 Add to cartFinancial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist
“Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating — and sometimes alarming — survey of big data’s growing effect on just about everything: business- Author: Mayer-Sch Nberger, Viktor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0544227751
- Language: English
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Bluesky for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe first and most trustworthy guide to the hot new social media platform
Bluesky has been taking the social media world by storm. The platform offers users a high degree of control over what informat
- Author: Butow, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1394350163
- Language: English
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On Privacy: Twenty Lessons to Live by
$20.00 Add to cartA small book with a big message: privacy matters.
In an age of constant connectivity, privacy can feel like a relic of the past. “On Privacy” challenges that notion with twenty sharp, practical lesso- Author: Cappello, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1523524170
- Language: English
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Employment Is Dead: How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work
$32.00 Add to cartWith disruptive technologies on the horizon, traditional employment models are becoming outdated. How will your organization adapt to the evolving landscape of work?
Business is on the cusp of a profou
- Author: Piscione, Deborah Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 164782642X
- Language: English
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Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully
$17.95 Add to cartIn our ever-connected world, inner peace isn’t about rejecting technology-it’s about having a better relationship with it. You need boundaries, but that doesn’t mean you should feel guilty every time
- Author: Vidyarthi, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1069099503
- Language: English
