The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future
By: Sheila Jasanoff
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology―but to what end? Technology rules us as much…
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1. The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
By: Brian Christian
3.94
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which com… read more
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"Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression."-Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
"If meaning lies even partially in usage, then you subtly alter the language every time you use it. You couldn't leave it intact if you tried."-Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
"And it suggests, perhaps, reversing the equation, that if we want to gain the most insight into a person, we should ask the question of whose answer we’re least certain."-Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
"What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time."-Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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3. The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
By: Patrick Lencioni
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking ap… read more
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4. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
By: Neil Postman
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more
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5. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more
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6. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
By: None
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we t… read more
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7. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering th… read more
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8. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
9. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
By: Tony Fadell
4.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more
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10. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
By: Roxane Gay
4.43
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more
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"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
11. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
12. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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13. BRZRKR, Volume 1
By: Keanu Reeves
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Keanu Reeves makes his comic book writing debut alongside New York Times bestselling co-writer Matt… read more
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14. The Tainted Cup
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
None
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more
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15. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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17. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
By: Jaron Lanier
3.58
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the danger… read more
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"Go to where you are kindest"-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
"Each of us has an inner troll."-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
18. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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19. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
By: James Bridle
4.05
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, whi… read more
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20. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future
By: Sheila Jasanoff
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology―but to what end? Technology rules us as much… read more
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