10 must-read technology books like The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future by Sheila Jasanoff

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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…

If you liked the technology plot in The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future by Sheila Jasanoff , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Brian Christian's The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive book and Sheila Jasanoff's The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"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

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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

Similar categories in Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions book and Sheila Jasanoff's The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science

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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  • science
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology

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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"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 realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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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

Similar categories in Tony Fadell's Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making book and Sheila Jasanoff's The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

  • nonfiction
  • technology
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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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  • nonfiction
"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

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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

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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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  • science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • technology
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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

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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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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  • science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
"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

"Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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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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  • science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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20. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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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

Similar categories in Sheila Jasanoff's The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future book and Sheila Jasanoff's The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

  • science
  • history
  • school
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • economics
  • sociology
  • technology

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3.92

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3.86

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3.58

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3.99

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4.14

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Charles Duhigg

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