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The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy  · 15 Jan 2025  · 209pp  · 63,332 words

for the book that you are reading right now.) These technological innovations in office workplaces have been accompanied by an increase in the demand for knowledge workers, whose productivity has improved, and who have seen rising wages. These two examples, of knitting machines and of office computers, illustrate how new technologies can

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

., Rajendran, S., Krayer, L., Candelon, F., and Lakhani, K. R. (2023). Navigating the jagged technological frontier: field experimental evidence of the effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality. Preprint, SSRN (https://ssrn.com/abstract=4573321). dotSWOOSH (2024). An update on the future of .SWOOSH. Medium, 12 January (https://bit.ly

Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms

by Mehmed Kantardzić  · 2 Jan 2003  · 721pp  · 197,134 words

opportunities and the most important decisions are often the hardest to see. This is in direct conflict with the needs of frontline decision makers and knowledge workers who are demanding to be included in the analytical process. Presenting information visually, in an environment that encourages the exploration of linked events, leads to

Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence: Avoid Pitfalls and Maximize Roi

by Lyndsay Wise  · 16 Sep 2012  · 227pp  · 32,306 words

, as price points started to come down, and as businesses started expanding in relation to the use of personal computers, it was assumed that most knowledge workers did not require access to the source code behind the applications being used. This enabled broader use across the organization and ensured that only developers

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

by Eli Pariser  · 11 May 2011  · 274pp  · 75,846 words

right, and we’re still waiting for them to be enforced. We can’t wait much longer: In a society with an increasing number of knowledge workers, our personal data and “personal brand” are worth more than they ever have been. Especially if you’re a blogger or a writer, if you

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan  · 2 Jan 2003  · 481pp  · 121,669 words

is an e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping you find reliable Web sites and search the Web more effectively. It’s written by and for knowledge workers who can’t afford to spend valuable time sifting through junk on the Web in search of a few valuable nuggets of e-gold. Each

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 30 Nov 2010  · 57pp  · 11,522 words

on activities; now we “walk for exercise,” not “walk” with no justification; for hidden reasons. – Social media are severely antisocial, health foods are empirically unhealthy, knowledge workers are very ignorant, and social sciences aren’t scientific at all. – For so many, instead of looking for “cause of death” when they expire, we

Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

by Walker Deibel  · 19 Oct 2018

of advanced education unable to produce higher pay rates, a new limiter has emerged. “Right now,” says Davison, “becoming an entrepreneur is like becoming a knowledge worker in 1900. That is, it is possible but hard enough that few people do it.” Entrepreneurship is the next limiter to be conquered. As the

The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love With the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

by Tommy Baker  · 18 Feb 2018  · 170pp  · 46,126 words

, 2011) performed an extensive study on motivation in the workforce and what truly makes people tick. Researchers concluded: “Through exhaustive analysis of diaries kept by knowledge workers, we discovered the progress principle: Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making

Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

by Harihara Subramanian  · 31 Jan 2019  · 422pp  · 86,414 words

and analytical systems. Knowledge visualization applications The ensuing era is definitely knowledge-centric. Knowledge discovery and dissemination are going to be the prime activity for knowledge workers. Software services, personal as well as professional devices, IT systems, and business applications have to be supplied with real-time and real-world knowledge in

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen  · 31 Dec 2002  · 300pp  · 79,315 words

The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

by Jim Kalbach  · 6 Apr 2020

The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

by Pat Dorsey  · 1 Mar 2008  · 141pp  · 40,979 words

Lessons-Learned-in-Software-Testing-A-Context-Driven-Approach

by Anson-QA

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross  · 30 Jun 2013

Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing)

by Douglas R. Dechow  · 2 Jul 2015  · 223pp  · 52,808 words

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques: Concepts and Techniques

by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei  · 21 Jun 2011

The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

by Scott Belsky  · 1 Oct 2018  · 425pp  · 112,220 words

How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time

by George Berkowski  · 3 Sep 2014  · 468pp  · 124,573 words

The Productive Programmer

by Neal Ford  · 8 Dec 2008  · 224pp  · 48,804 words

Getting Real

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman and 37 Signals  · 1 Jan 2006  · 132pp  · 31,976 words

Raw Data Is an Oxymoron

by Lisa Gitelman  · 25 Jan 2013

Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction

by Chris Bailey  · 31 Jul 2018  · 272pp  · 66,985 words

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey  · 9 Nov 2004  · 398pp  · 108,026 words

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark  · 14 Oct 2021  · 201pp  · 60,431 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais  · 16 Sep 2019

Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life

by David Allen  · 30 Dec 2008

Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

by Markus Krajewski and Peter Krapp  · 18 Aug 2011  · 222pp  · 74,587 words

Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions

by Elizabeth Ghaffari  · 5 Dec 2011  · 493pp  · 139,845 words

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life

by Gretchen Rubin  · 3 Sep 2012  · 265pp  · 79,747 words

AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications

by Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt  · 31 Dec 2023  · 321pp  · 113,564 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

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

by Ozan Varol  · 13 Apr 2020  · 389pp  · 112,319 words

Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

by Dariusz Jemielniak  · 13 May 2014  · 312pp  · 93,504 words

How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine

by Trisha Greenhalgh  · 18 Nov 2010  · 321pp  · 97,661 words

Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

by Thomas H. Davenport  · 4 Feb 2014

The Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan  · 1 Jan 2010  · 281pp  · 95,852 words

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

by Adam Greenfield  · 14 Sep 2006  · 229pp  · 68,426 words

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

by Sahil Bloom  · 4 Feb 2025  · 363pp  · 94,341 words

Howard Rheingold

by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993)  · 26 Apr 2012

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

by Winifred Gallagher  · 9 Mar 2009  · 280pp  · 75,820 words

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

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

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age

by Alex Wright  · 6 Jun 2014

Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy

by David Sawyer  · 17 Aug 2018  · 572pp  · 94,002 words

Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child

by Alissa Quart  · 16 Aug 2006

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford  · 21 Mar 2005

There's Got to Be a Better Way

by Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer  · 26 Aug 2025  · 258pp  · 85,605 words

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

by Howard Rheingold  · 14 May 2000  · 352pp  · 120,202 words

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking

by Mark Bauerlein  · 7 Sep 2011  · 407pp  · 103,501 words

We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

by Charles Leadbeater  · 9 Dec 2010  · 313pp  · 84,312 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

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

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff  · 23 May 2011  · 344pp  · 96,690 words

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late

by Michael Ellsberg  · 15 Jan 2011  · 362pp  · 99,063 words

What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

by Paul Verhaeghe  · 26 Mar 2014  · 208pp  · 67,582 words

Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid  · 2 Feb 2000  · 791pp  · 85,159 words

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years

by Tom Standage  · 14 Oct 2013  · 290pp  · 94,968 words

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud  · 17 Jan 2023  · 350pp  · 115,802 words

100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation

by Frank Furedi  · 6 Sep 2021  · 535pp  · 103,761 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

eBoys

by Randall E. Stross  · 30 Oct 2008  · 381pp  · 112,674 words

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

by David J. Anderson  · 6 Apr 2010  · 318pp  · 78,451 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

by Robert Wachter  · 7 Apr 2015  · 309pp  · 114,984 words

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less

by Richard Koch  · 15 Dec 1999  · 296pp  · 78,227 words

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed  · 31 Aug 2021  · 168pp  · 49,067 words

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff  · 22 Mar 2022  · 573pp  · 142,376 words

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee  · 14 Nov 2023  · 381pp  · 113,173 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner  · 31 Aug 2006  · 339pp  · 57,031 words

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport  · 17 Sep 2012  · 197pp  · 60,477 words

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid

by Franck Frommer  · 6 Oct 2010  · 255pp  · 68,829 words

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs  · 1 Jan 2008  · 421pp  · 125,417 words

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

by Michael Lopp  · 20 Jul 2010  · 336pp  · 88,320 words

Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website

by Matt Blumberg  · 13 Aug 2013  · 561pp  · 114,843 words

How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

by Benjamin Peters  · 2 Jun 2016  · 518pp  · 107,836 words

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

by Brad Feld and David Cohen  · 18 Oct 2010  · 326pp  · 74,433 words

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain  · 24 Jan 2012  · 377pp  · 115,122 words

The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity

by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt  · 18 Oct 2000  · 353pp  · 355 words

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

by Jeff Sutherland and Jj Sutherland  · 29 Sep 2014  · 284pp  · 72,406 words

Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

by William H. Inmon, Bonnie K. O'Neil and Lowell Fryman  · 15 Feb 2008  · 314pp  · 94,600 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Decoding Organization: Bletchley Park, Codebreaking and Organization Studies

by Christopher Grey  · 22 Mar 2012

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society

by Will Hutton  · 30 Sep 2010  · 543pp  · 147,357 words

Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything

by Steven Levy  · 2 Feb 1994  · 244pp  · 66,599 words

The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton  · 3 Nov 2010  · 209pp  · 80,086 words

Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page  · 27 Nov 2018  · 543pp  · 153,550 words

CIOs at Work

by Ed Yourdon  · 19 Jul 2011  · 525pp  · 142,027 words

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

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

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin  · 21 Jun 2023  · 248pp  · 73,689 words

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg  · 2 Jan 2006  · 394pp  · 118,929 words

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral  · 14 Sep 2020  · 475pp  · 134,707 words

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5

by Taylor Pearson  · 27 Jun 2015  · 168pp  · 50,647 words

Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect

by David Goodhart  · 7 Sep 2020  · 463pp  · 115,103 words

Joel on Software

by Joel Spolsky  · 1 Aug 2004  · 370pp  · 105,085 words

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom Demarco  · 15 Nov 2001  · 166pp  · 53,103 words

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 7 Nov 2017  · 346pp  · 89,180 words

Britain Etc

by Mark Easton  · 1 Mar 2012  · 411pp  · 95,852 words

Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing

by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman  · 19 Feb 2013  · 407pp  · 109,653 words

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 1 Jan 2011  · 382pp  · 92,138 words

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter  · 9 Jan 2007  · 280pp  · 82,623 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 29 Sep 2014  · 828pp  · 232,188 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale  · 17 Nov 2014  · 320pp  · 87,853 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global

by Rebecca Fannin  · 2 Sep 2019  · 269pp  · 70,543 words

Artificial Whiteness

by Yarden Katz

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

by Thomas W. Malone  · 14 May 2018  · 344pp  · 104,077 words

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere

by Tsedal Neeley  · 14 Oct 2021  · 223pp  · 60,936 words

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford  · 13 Sep 2021  · 288pp  · 86,995 words

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan  · 9 Aug 2010

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama  · 25 May 2015  · 494pp  · 116,739 words

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely  · 3 Apr 2013  · 898pp  · 266,274 words

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith  · 17 Aug 2015  · 353pp  · 91,520 words

Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)

by Thierry Bardini  · 1 Dec 2000

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans  · 6 Mar 2018  · 371pp  · 93,570 words

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

by Adam Fisher  · 9 Jul 2018  · 611pp  · 188,732 words

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

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

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

by Richard Florida  · 28 Jun 2009  · 325pp  · 73,035 words

Philanthrocapitalism

by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton  · 29 Sep 2008  · 401pp  · 115,959 words

The Rise of the Network Society

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

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis  · 31 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 118,314 words

The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021

by Greg Clark  · 31 Dec 2014

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis

by David Boyle  · 15 Jan 2014  · 367pp  · 108,689 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Jan 2016

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It

by Steven Brill  · 28 May 2018  · 519pp  · 155,332 words

The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

by David Frayne  · 15 Nov 2015  · 336pp  · 83,903 words

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber  · 14 May 2018  · 385pp  · 123,168 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross  · 2 Feb 2016  · 364pp  · 99,897 words

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

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

The End of Work

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 28 Dec 1994  · 372pp  · 152 words

Open for Business Harnessing the Power of Platform Ecosystems

by Lauren Turner Claire, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier  · 14 Oct 2017  · 240pp  · 78,436 words

The Road Ahead

by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson  · 15 Nov 1995  · 317pp  · 101,074 words

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

by Oliver Burkeman  · 8 Oct 2024  · 123pp  · 43,370 words

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

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

Climate Change

by Joseph Romm  · 3 Dec 2015  · 358pp  · 93,969 words

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

by Cal Newport  · 5 Mar 2024  · 233pp  · 65,893 words

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

by Richard Baldwin  · 10 Jan 2019  · 301pp  · 89,076 words

Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg  · 8 Mar 2016  · 401pp  · 119,488 words

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon  · 5 Oct 2020  · 340pp  · 101,675 words

Economists and the Powerful

by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas  · 30 Sep 2012  · 261pp  · 103,244 words

The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise

by Nathan L. Ensmenger  · 31 Jul 2010  · 429pp  · 114,726 words

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason  · 29 Jul 2015  · 378pp  · 110,518 words

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era

by Ellen Ruppel Shell  · 22 Oct 2018  · 402pp  · 126,835 words

Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

by Geoff Colvin  · 3 Aug 2015  · 271pp  · 77,448 words

Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson  · 15 Jan 2018  · 523pp  · 61,179 words

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff  · 24 Aug 2015  · 413pp  · 119,587 words

Brave New World of Work

by Ulrich Beck  · 15 Jan 2000  · 236pp  · 67,953 words

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff  · 1 Jan 2005  · 394pp  · 108,215 words

Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines

by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby  · 23 May 2016  · 347pp  · 97,721 words

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom  · 3 Jun 2014  · 574pp  · 164,509 words

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin  · 14 Nov 2016  · 606pp  · 87,358 words

Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek

by Rutger Bregman  · 13 Sep 2014  · 235pp  · 62,862 words

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

by Nicholas Carr  · 28 Sep 2014  · 308pp  · 84,713 words

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee  · 14 Sep 2018  · 307pp  · 88,180 words

The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market

by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane  · 11 Apr 2004  · 187pp  · 55,801 words

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

by Dan Ariely  · 31 May 2010  · 324pp  · 93,175 words

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan  · 15 Oct 2018  · 585pp  · 151,239 words

Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough

by Sendhil Mullainathan  · 3 Sep 2014  · 305pp  · 89,103 words

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations

by Dan Ariely  · 15 Nov 2016  · 83pp  · 26,097 words

Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

by Raghuram Rajan  · 24 May 2010  · 358pp  · 106,729 words

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It

by Richard Florida  · 9 May 2016  · 356pp  · 91,157 words

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