Technology Studies
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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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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
$26.95 Read moreHow to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all
Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anyw- Author: Marx, Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765887
- Language: English
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
$25.33 Add to cartAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the fir- Author: Katz, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823962
- Language: English
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Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here
$29.95 Add to cartFor years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the ri
- Author: Fiore, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1953943063
- Language: English
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Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future
$19.00 Add to cartJer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its
- Author: Thorp, Jer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849152
- Language: English
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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
$18.00 Add to cartIn Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising-the beating heart of the internet-is at risk of colla
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Hwang, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538654
- Language: English
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Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)
$27.95 Read moreHow teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their- Author: Weinstein, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047357
- Language: English
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics–former
- Author: Deresiewicz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858631
- Language: English
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Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race
$19.95 Add to cartPeople around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and o
- Author: Fiekowsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1953943101
- Language: English
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside
$16.00 Add to cartIn Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standar
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Wang, Xiaowei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538662
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the q- Author: Pasquinelli, Matteo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788730062
- Language: English
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The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox Parc, and the Original Internet of Things
$29.00 Read moreA compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything–and who hoped for something better.
When developers and critics- Author: Tinnell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 022675720X
- Language: English
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The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now
$30.00 Add to cartAI is on the brink of dominating our lives, threating our privacy and human future–if we don’t take action now.
In The Algorithm, Emmy-award winning Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor Hil- Author: Schellmann, Hilke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827344
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
$30.00 Read more“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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601178
- Language: English
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Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
$27.00 Read moreHailed by Publishers Weekly as “a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech” and Kirkus Reviews as “a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants,” readers will be energized by Tom Wheeler’s v
- Author: Wheeler, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0815739931
- Language: English
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The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
$28.00 Add to cartIf you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being–and shows us
- Author: Price, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593241401
- Language: English
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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
$19.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling authors and hosts of “The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe,” a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technolog… [more below]
- Author: Novella, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1538709554
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$22.00 Add to cartLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882187
- Language: English
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Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
$28.99 Add to cartAS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND THE EZRA KLEIN SHOW, WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE
**A “NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB” BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW N… [more below]- Author: Mark, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449418
- Language: English
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–And How to Think Deeply Again
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening–and how … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593138511
- Language: English
