description: a Pulitzer-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the connections between the works of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
by
Melanie Mitchell
Published 31 Mar 2009
The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
by
Brian Christian
Published 1 Mar 2011
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
by
Melanie Mitchell
Published 14 Oct 2019
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by
Daniel Susskind
Published 14 Jan 2020
I Am a Strange Loop
by
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Published 21 Feb 2011
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by
Jon Ronson
Published 12 May 2011
Emergence
by
Steven Johnson
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
by
Geoff Cox
and
Alex McLean
Published 9 Nov 2012
Virus of the Mind
by
Richard Brodie
Published 4 Jun 2009
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
by
Hannah Fry
Published 17 Sep 2018
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by
Scott Rosenberg
Published 2 Jan 2006
Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
by
Chris Bernhardt
Published 12 May 2016
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by
George Zarkadakis
Published 7 Mar 2016
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by
Pedro Domingos
Published 21 Sep 2015
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, From Atoms to Economies
by
Cesar Hidalgo
Published 1 Jun 2015
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by
Jaron Lanier
Published 21 Nov 2017
The Joy of Clojure
by
Michael Fogus
and
Chris Houser
Published 28 Nov 2010
Programming Clojure
by
Stuart Halloway
and
Aaron Bedra
Published 17 Apr 2012
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
by
Robert J. Shiller
Published 14 Oct 2019
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by
Christopher Steiner
Published 29 Aug 2012
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by
Henry Petroski
Published 2 Jan 1990
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by
Ray Kurzweil
Published 31 Dec 1998
Upgrade
by
Blake Crouch
Published 6 Jul 2022
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by
Brian Christian
Published 5 Oct 2020
The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
by
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 7 Mar 2019
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration
by
Bent Flyvbjerg
and
Dan Gardner
Published 16 Feb 2023
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by
Garry Kasparov
Published 1 May 2017
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by
Mark Stevenson
Published 4 Dec 2010
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
by
Stephen Budiansky
Published 10 May 2021
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by
Gabriel Weinberg
and
Lauren McCann
Published 17 Jun 2019
Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics
by
David Berlinski
Published 2 Jan 2005
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by
Ray Kurzweil
Published 14 Jul 2005
Team Human
by
Douglas Rushkoff
Published 22 Jan 2019
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by
Michio Kaku
Published 15 Mar 2011
Track Changes
by
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Published 1 May 2016
Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
by
Markus Krajewski
and
Peter Krapp
Published 18 Aug 2011
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by
Oliver Burkeman
Published 9 Aug 2021
Architects of Intelligence
by
Martin Ford
Published 16 Nov 2018
The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
by
Samuel Arbesman
Published 31 Aug 2012
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
by
Pete Dyson
and
Rory Sutherland
Published 15 Jan 2021
Structure and interpretation of computer programs
by
Harold Abelson
,
Gerald Jay Sussman
and
Julie Sussman
Published 25 Jul 1996
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by
Walter Isaacson
Published 6 Oct 2014
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition
by
Harold Abelson
,
Gerald Jay Sussman
and
Julie Sussman
Published 1 Jan 1984
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by
Steven Johnson
Published 2 Jan 1999
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by
Mario Livio
Published 23 Sep 2003
AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together
by
Nick Polson
and
James Scott
Published 14 May 2018
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by
Kenneth Cukier
,
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
and
Francis de Véricourt
Published 10 May 2021
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by
Paul Davies
Published 31 Jan 2019
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
by
David Easley
and
Jon Kleinberg
Published 15 Nov 2010
Is God a Mathematician?
by
Mario Livio
Published 6 Jan 2009
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by
Claire L. Evans
Published 6 Mar 2018
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
by
Tom Chivers
Published 12 Jun 2019
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by
Werner Loewenstein
Published 29 Jan 2013
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by
Amy Webb
Published 5 Mar 2019
The Little Schemer
by
Daniel P. Friedman
,
Matthias Felleisen
and
Duane Bibby
Published 1 Jan 1974
Lost at Sea
by
Jon Ronson
Published 1 Oct 2012
The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)
by
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Published 27 Sep 2018
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by
Robert Elliott Smith
Published 26 Jun 2019
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
by
Johnjoe McFadden
and
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 14 Oct 2014
When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity
by
Anthony Berglas
,
William Black
,
Samantha Thalind
,
Max Scratchmann
and
Michelle Estes
Published 28 Feb 2015
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by
John Markoff
Published 24 Aug 2015
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
by
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Published 6 Oct 2021
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
by
Elinor Ostrom
Published 29 Nov 1990
The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
by
Josh Kaufman
Published 2 Feb 2011
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers
by
Stefan Fatsis
Published 27 Jul 2001
The Fabric of Reality
by
David Deutsch
Published 31 Mar 2012
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
by
James Bridle
Published 6 Apr 2022
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by
Richard Dawkins
Published 1 Jan 1982
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
by
Daniel C. Dennett
Published 7 Feb 2017
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by
David Deutsch
Published 30 Jun 2011
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by
Nick Bostrom
Published 3 Jun 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by
James Gleick
Published 1 Mar 2011
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by
Michael Spitzer
Published 31 Mar 2021
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by
Timothy Ferriss
Published 14 Jun 2017
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by
James Gleick
Published 1 Jan 1992
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Published 11 Mar 2015
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by
Daniel C. Dennett
Published 15 Jan 1995
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by
Emanuel Derman
Published 1 Jan 2004
Principles of Protocol Design
by
Robin Sharp
Published 13 Feb 2008
Global Catastrophic Risks
by
Nick Bostrom
and
Milan M. Cirkovic
Published 2 Jul 2008