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No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

, 10, 138–140 capital cost increase and, 135–138 capital productivity optimization and, 140–142 cosmopolitan capitalism, 144 crowd-sourced funding, 47, 85, 143–144 digital capital, 50–51, 52 foreign direct, 76, 80 global rate of, 132, 135, 137 (fig.) hedge, 128, 145 infrastructure deficit and, 131–132, 133, 135–136

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

the regulatory models they have adopted at home and promoted abroad. These three leading regulatory models could be thought of as representing three “varieties of digital capitalism”—drawing on different theories about the relationship between markets, the state, and individual and collective rights.27 As described throughout this book, the US has

base, 262–63 Digital Advertising Tax (Maryland), 239–40 digital authoritarianism, 135 beyond China, 308–13 China’s, 77–78, 290–323 criticism of, 99 digital capitalism, 6 Digital Divide projects, 268 digital economy, 21–23, 388–93. see also e-commerce global, 385–88 local, 300 digital empires, 6–20, 23

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

for the last several decades, the logic of globalization was that manufacturing moved toward the lowest-cost sources of labor. But now, they note, as “digital-capital-intensive technologies are substituting for humans in the routine labor-intensive parts of manufacturing supply chains . . . and digital technologies make manufacturing mobile with little or

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

automated jobs, the gig economy, and the demise of local retail along with local journalism. But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment, the global poor, and the civilizational future their oppression portends. The manufacture of our computers and smartphones still depends on networks

that’s been their objective all along. Perhaps this fatalist drive to rise above and separate from humanity is no more the result of runaway digital capitalism than its cause—a way of treating one another and the world that can be traced back to the sociopathic tendencies of empirical science, individualism

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna  · 18 Apr 2016  · 497pp  · 144,283 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

Intelligence (1995) Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation (1997) Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (1997) Coauthor, Ann Cavoukian Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (2000) Coauthors, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business (2003

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

CommerceOne (and lots of “e” prefixes from eMetals to eTextiles), were starting up in industries from cars to plastics. Driven by the dream of “frictionless digital capitalism,” as Bill Gates’s book The Road Ahead put it at the time, they were all going to revolutionize supply-chain management. Some sought to

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

by David Sax  · 8 Nov 2016  · 360pp  · 101,038 words

Silicon Valley, the vast majority of our economy is still overwhelmingly analog, and these businesses more broadly benefit our society than those of more concentrated digital capital. As the business world increasingly focuses on digital, companies and individuals who can use analog in new and novel ways will increasingly stand out and

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

to Raise Pay for Thousands of Contract Workers, Including Content Moderators.” Bloomberg, May 13, 2019. Wajcman, Judy. Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Wang, Maya. “China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist.” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2017. Waters, Richard, Rochelle Toplensky, and

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke  · 30 Nov 2016

,” MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-03 (2014), http://ssrn.com/abstract =2414179. 40. Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); see also Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration—A New Theory of Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). 7 • Tacit

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor  · 4 Mar 2014  · 283pp  · 85,824 words

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese  · 14 Aug 2023  · 284pp  · 75,744 words

The Rise of the Network Society

by Manuel Castells  · 31 Aug 1996  · 843pp  · 223,858 words

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm  · 11 Apr 2022  · 172pp  · 50,777 words

The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias  · 19 Aug 2019  · 458pp  · 116,832 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

by Brett Christophers  · 17 Nov 2020  · 614pp  · 168,545 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 words

We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

by John Cheney-Lippold  · 1 May 2017  · 420pp  · 100,811 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Team Human

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 22 Jan 2019  · 196pp  · 54,339 words

Platform Capitalism

by Nick Srnicek  · 22 Dec 2016  · 116pp  · 31,356 words

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman  · 17 Mar 2015  · 527pp  · 147,690 words

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham  · 8 Nov 2016  · 519pp  · 136,708 words

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav  · 3 Nov 2020  · 175pp  · 45,815 words

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

by David Sax  · 15 Jan 2022  · 282pp  · 93,783 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

The Cultural Logic of Computation

by David Golumbia  · 31 Mar 2009  · 268pp  · 109,447 words

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

by Nicholas Carr  · 5 Sep 2016  · 391pp  · 105,382 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

by Steffen Mau  · 12 Jun 2017  · 254pp  · 69,276 words

The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

by Kathryn Jezer-Morton  · 4 Aug 2026

What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

by John Brockman  · 5 Oct 2015  · 481pp  · 125,946 words

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 9 Sep 2024  · 566pp  · 169,013 words

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

Culture works: the political economy of culture

by Richard Maxwell  · 15 Jan 2001  · 268pp  · 112,708 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

by Ronald Purser  · 8 Jul 2019  · 242pp  · 67,233 words

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

by Jim Whitehurst  · 1 Jun 2015  · 247pp  · 63,208 words

Sabotage: The Financial System's Nasty Business

by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan  · 28 Jan 2020  · 218pp  · 62,889 words

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

by Taylor Clark  · 5 Nov 2007  · 304pp  · 96,930 words