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It’s not just computers—hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your...
Computer hackers, Hacking, History, Security, Technology & Engineering Bruce Schneier
Abundance
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold,...
Inequality, Philanthropy, Technology & Engineering Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Broad Band
"This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. The history of technology you probably know is one of men and...
Biography & Autobiography, History, Science, Technology & Engineering Claire L. Evans
Consent of the Networked
The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web’s empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are...
Media & Internet, Politics & Government, Technology & Engineering Rebecca MacKinnon
Constitution 3.0
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values. From free speech to privacy, from liberty and personal autonomy to...
Ideas, Innovation, Law, Political Science, Science, Technology & Engineering Jeffrey Rosen
Consumption Economics
If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line....
Computers, Design, Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering J. B. Wood
Data and Goliath
You are under surveillance right now. Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're...
Computer & Internet Law, Computers, Privacy, Science, Surveillance, Technology & Engineering Bruce Schneier
The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts...
Business & Economics, Communication, Computer & Internet Law, Technology & Engineering Susan Crawford
Futureproof
You are being automated. After decades of hype and sci-fi fantasies, artificial intelligence is leaping out of research labs and into the center of our lives. Automation doesn’t just threaten...
Automation, Economics, Robotics, Technology & Engineering Kevin Roose
Here Comes Everybody
For the first time in history, the tools for cooperating on a global scale are not solely in the hands of governments or institutions. The spread of the internet and...
Business & Economics, Communication, Technology & Engineering Clay Shirky
The fifth edition of Information Technology Law continues to be dedicated to a detailed analysis of and commentary on the latest developments within this burgeoning field of law. It provides...
Law, Science, Technology & Engineering Diana Rowland, Uta Kohl, Andrew Charlesworth
Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy and society are becoming more...
Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Re-Engineering Humanity
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Computer & Internet Law, Future of Work, Law, Privacy, Public Policy, Technology & Engineering Brett Frischmann
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing everything – from the way we relate to each other, to the work we do, the way our economies work, and what it means...
Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis
Social Warming
Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only...
Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media, Technology & Engineering Charles Arthur
The Big Nine
A 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...
Artificial Intelligence, Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering Amy Webb
The Code
Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the...
Technology & Engineering, Venture Capital Margaret O'Mara
The Filter Bubble
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most...
Computers, Media & Internet, Psychology, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media, Technology & Engineering Eli Pariser
Ten years from today, the center of our digital lives will no longer be the smart phone, but device that looks like ordinary eyeglasses: except those glasses will have settings...
Technology & Engineering Robert Scoble
The Laws of Disruption
While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind,...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy, Technology & Engineering Larry Downes
From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means...
Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering Matthew Ball
The Mobile Wave
In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings TheMobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence -- the...
History, Mobile, Technology & Engineering Michael J. Saylor
In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world...
Computers, History, Ideas, Technology & Engineering Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
The Technology Trap
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the...
Artificial Intelligence, Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering Carl Benedikt Frey
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Did you know that...
Computer & Internet Law, Computers, Law, Science, Technology & Engineering Jeff Kosseff
Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts that we are at the beginning of a period of fundamental transformation in law: a time in which we will see greater change than we have seen...
Computer & Internet Law, Future of Work, Law, Science, Technology & Engineering Richard Susskind
As society enters the fourth industrial revolution, a major question arises—can we harness intense technological bursts of possibility to bring about a better world? A Very Human Future illustrates how...
Social Aspects of Technology, Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering Rohit Talwar
A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not...
Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering Kevin Kelly
WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today’s economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement, and technology bears some of...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Public Policy, Strategy, Technology & Engineering Tim O'Reilly
You are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in...
Media & Internet, Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering Jaron Lanier
Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness
Want to learn how to maximize social media? When to do it, what words to use, who to tweet at? Look no further than Zarrella s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The...
Business & Economics, Creativity, Ideas, Technology & Engineering Dan Zarrella
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