The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
By: Orly Lobel
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022 At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel,…
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1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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2. What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
By: John Brockman
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's latest addition to the accl… read more
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3. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
4. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
By: Daniel Goleman , Richard Davidson
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do fo… read more
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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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6. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
7. 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
8. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
10. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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11. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more
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"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
12. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
By: Janelle Shane
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an arti… read more
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"Then [the AI] guesses that o is often followed by ck. Gold. It has made some progress. Behold its idea of the perfect joke: Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock"-Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
17. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
18. 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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19. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
By: Claire Hughes Johnson
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more
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20. 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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21. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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22. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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23. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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24. For Profit: A History of Corporations
By: William Magnuson
3.99
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Fr… read more
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25. The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
By: Azeem Azhar
4.00
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
*2021 Financial Times Best Book of the Year* A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the wideni… read more
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26. Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
By: Damon Centola
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this "utt… read more
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with…"-Damon Centola, Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
"Some of the most heated and vexing ethical and political debates of recent years turn on the question of how to evaluate past behaviors that were once "normal" but are now widely understood to be tra…"-Damon Centola, Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
"Most of the behavior we care about - investing in a market; choosing a political candidate, a career path, a neighborhood to live in, or whether to use birth control; adopting a costly technology; or…"-Damon Centola, Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
27. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
By: Tim Wu
4.16
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dolla… read more
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28. The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
By: Nita A. Farahany
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imag… read more
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29. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)
By: India Holton
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more
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30. 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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31. The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
By: Orly Lobel
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022 At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel,… read more
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