Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys…
Want to Read $ 12.85"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us."-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
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1. Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
By: Cory Doctorow
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes … read more
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2. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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3. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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4. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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5. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more
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6. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more
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7. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
8. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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9. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
10. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
By: Bruce Schneier
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more
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11. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
By: Zoë Schiffer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more
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12. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
13. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
By: Rebecca Giblin
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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15. The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
By: Ben Terris
3.74
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16. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
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17. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more
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"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
18. Dirtbag: Essays
By: Amber A'Lee Frost
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Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more
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19. Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
By: Bill McGuire
4.31
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse ent… read more
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20. Vivir peor que nuestros padres
By: Azahara Palomeque
3.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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21. The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
By: Jonathan Taplin
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first cen… read more
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