Technology Studies
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Videotape
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765100004
- Language: English
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You to the Power of Two: Redefining Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI
$34.95 Add to cartA new and previously unexplained era of artificial intelligence will transform human life forever. Discover what this means for our personal identity and our future.
AI tools are already reshaping the- Author: Bradley, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747845
- Language: English
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Worklab: Five Years That Shook the Business World and Sparked an AI-First Future
$19.99 Read moreWorkLab is an essential guide to five of the most disruptive years in the history of work, revealing how a global crisis, a remote and hybrid revolution, and the rise of AI reshaped business–and what… [more below]
- Author: Stallbaumer, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999120175
- Language: English
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Tech: When Silicon Valley Remakes the World
$27.95 Add to cartThe first holistic analysis of the space, mindset, and inner workings of Silicon Valley in a generation.
Sometimes only an outsider can show how an industry works–and how that industry works upon th- Author: Alexandre, Olivier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0520413741
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083515
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$16.95 Add to cartA tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her “forceful critique” of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy
Over the past decades, under the cover of “inn- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0691241198
- Language: English
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The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
$32.95 Add to cartHow AI will challenge our ideas about personhood.
Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is- Author: Boyle, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049163
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (with a New Preface)
$20.00 Add to cartNamed One of the Five Best Books on AI by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
No technological development in recent history has generated as much excitement and terror–both utopian vision- Author: Mitchell, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250404851
- Language: English
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How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse
In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional be- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0691233071
- Language: English
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Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
$30.00 Add to cart“A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the ‘aerial view’ . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting … [more below]
- Author: McPherson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1662602952
- Language: English
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The Origins of Efficiency
$40.00 Add to cartA step-by-step examination of how production processes–from penicillin and automobiles to steel and semiconductors–get more efficient over time, and why it matters for unlocking a new era of abundan… [more below]
- Author: Potter, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1953953522
- Language: English
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Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Volume 74
$27.95 Add to cartHow generative AI systems capture a core function of language
Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that hu
- Series: PostHumanities
- Author: Weatherby, Leif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1517919320
- Language: English
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$20.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Named a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers Weekly
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artifi- Author: Murgia, Madhumita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1250868483
- Language: English
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Lost in the Stream: How Algorithms Redefined the Way Movies Are Made and Watched (Gift for Movie Lovers, What to Watch)
$18.99 Add to cartExplore Cinema History, Stream Your Favorites
This engaging book by Jeff Rauseo blends film history with a modern guide to streaming, helping you navigate the complex history of movie making and ultima
- Author: Rauseo, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1684818192
- Language: English
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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
$32.00 Add to cartHow a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human
In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsn- Author: Kingsnorth, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593850637
- Language: English
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083507
- Language: English
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Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
$29.95 Add to cartHow society can shape individual actions in times of uncertainty
When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that- Author: Gasser, Urs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691150680
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
$20.00 Add to cart“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and–for better or worse–necessary reading.” –Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem
An entertaining account of the philosophy an- Author: Shapiro, Scott J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1250335671
- Language: English
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The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet
$30.00 Add to cartIn this substantially revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095288
- Language: English
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
$20.00 Add to cartHow will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Kai-Fu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0593238311
- Language: English
