The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI
By: Michael Wooldridge
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence.…
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1. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more
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"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
2. Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
By: Richard McGregor
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Often critical of Washington's 'combination of idealism and arrogance, ' McGregor offers detailed,… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more
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4. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more
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6. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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7. Against the Odds: An Autobiography
By: James Dyson
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more
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8. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
By: Michael J. Sandel
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more
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9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
11. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
12. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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13. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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14. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
15. 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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16. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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17. 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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18. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more
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19. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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- technology
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20. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- computer science
- science
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
21. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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22. 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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23. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
By: Cliff Kuang
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant… read more
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"Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage."-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
"Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-f…"-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
"Being polite means following a conversation, not co-opting it and dragging it in other directions. It means knowing who you’re talking with, and knowing what they know. It’s rude to talk over people,…"-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
24. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
25. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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26. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it."-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest form of unde…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doin…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it compl…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
27. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
28. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing,… read more
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"Network theory confirms the view that information can take on 'a life of its own'. In the yeast network my colleagues found that 40 per cent of node pairs that are correlated via information transfer…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"To conclude: time doesn’t pass. (I hope the reader is now convinced!) Well, what does pass, then? I shall argue that it is the conscious awareness of the fleeting self that changes from moment to mom…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"More radically, how can we be sure that the source of consciousness lies within our bodies at all? You might think that because a blow to the head renders one unconscious, the ‘seat of consciousness’…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
29. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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30. The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI
By: Michael Wooldridge
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence.… read more
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31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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