"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the...
Information society
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Author:Brown, John SeelySummary: -
Author:Ramo, Joshua CooperSummary:If you find yourself longing for a world where information is not always at your fingertips, you may be as useful as the carriage maker post–Henry Ford. Is it possible to not become hopelessly tangled with technology? Joshua Cooper Ramo...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates...
- Author:Hughes, BobSummary:
Under capitalism we are led to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better worlds, and still can...
- Author:Sahami, Mehran, Weinstein, Jeremy M., Reich, RobSummary:
This book exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get....
- Author:Clarke, AmandaSummary:
Opening the Government of Canada presents a compelling case for a more open model of governance in the digital age - but a model that also continues to uphold democratic principles at the heart of the Westminster system. Amanda Clarke...
- Author:Coupland, DouglasSummary:
A brilliant, timely and very Couplandesque novel about honey bees and the world we may soon live in. Once again, Douglas Coupland captures the spirit of a generation….
In the near future bees are extinct — until one autumn when...
- Author:Suarez, DanielSummary:
The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious...
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Author:Dyer-Witheford, NickSummary:The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighborhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us...
