DT&L Library

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Always on
Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone,...
Computers, Design, Innovation, Mobile Brian X. Chen
Automating Inequality
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los...
Computers, Employment, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment Virginia Eubanks
Cognitive Surplus
For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus, Internet guru Clay Shirky...
Computers, Psychology, Social Aspects of Technology Clay Shirky
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
Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons
Rely on this practical, end-to-end guide on cyber safety andprivacy written expressly for a non-technical audience. You will havejust what you need to protect yourself--step by step, without judgment,and with...
Computers, Security Carey Parker
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies -- and no matter how fast the authorities were,...
Biography & Autobiography, Computers, Hacking, Security Kevin Mitnick
In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners...
Computers, Entrepreneurship Alex Moazed, Nicholas L. Johnson
The Art of Intrusion
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art...
Computers, Hacking, Security Kevin D. Mitnick
The Atlas of AI
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of...
Artificial Intelligence, Computers Kate Crawford
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 Big Switch
A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric...
Computers, Information Theory, Social Sciences Nicholas G. Carr
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact...
Computers, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media Max Fisher
Ambitious digital-driven startups are now creating and cornering new markets in every sector. And yet, most legacy businesses continue to operate by old playbooks. Most are not keeping pace with...
Computers, Strategy Venkat Venkatraman
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
The Information Diet
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens...
Computers, Ideas, Media & Internet, Social Aspects of Technology Clay Johnson
The Net Delusion
“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes...
Computers, History, Law Evgeny Morozov
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 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
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t...
Computers, Digital Currencies, Electronic commerce, Social Aspects of Technology Douglas Rushkoff
In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to...
Computers, Digital Transformation, Politics & Government, Social Aspects of Technology Evgeny Morozov