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The Zero Marginal Cost Society
In The Zero Marginal Cost Society,New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and...
Business & Economics, Globalization, Politics & Government
Jeremy Rifkin
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free...
Business & Economics, Climate, International, Public Policy
Naomi Klein
Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) That the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) That we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and...
History, Social Sciences
Yancey Strickler
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
To Save Everything, Click Here
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
Tomorrow’s Lawyers
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
Very Human Future
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
We Are Anonymous
We Are Anonymous is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured...
Hacking, Privacy, Security
Parmy Olson
What Technology Wants
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
A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment,...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
Jeff Jarvis
One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs...
Creativity, Disruption, History, Innovation
Steven Johnson
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and...
Business & Economics, Communication, Social Sciences
Jaron Lanier
Why School?
Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on 'critical thinking'...
Digital Transformation, Education
Will Richardson
Wikinomics
Disseminates the process through which companies and consumers harness technology in order to innovate together, profiling such collaborative innovations as blogs, peer-to-peer networks, and personal broadcasting tools that are enabling...
Business & Economics, Communication, Creativity
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Winners Take All
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way...
Democracy, Economics, Philanthropy
Anand Giridharadas
As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when...
Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship
Alexis Ohanian
Work
Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history Say the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never...
Employment, Social Sciences
Andrea Komlosy
Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to...
History
Franklin Foer
WTF?
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
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
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
One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who...
Digital Transformation, Social Media
Roger McNamee