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Avogadro Corp

by William Hertling  · 9 Apr 2014  · 247pp  · 71,698 words

a game controller on the couch and what appeared to be a Costco sized bag of Doritos. All the signs of a newly laid off tech worker, Sean thought to himself. “Hello, how can I...” The young man trailed off, and blinked a couple of times. He looked back into the house

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch  · 22 Jul 2019  · 413pp  · 106,479 words

same region at the same time, they can alter the local dialect. The vowels of Raleigh, North Carolina, became less Southern after a wave of tech workers from Northern states started arriving in the 1960s, and Cockney has been replaced in working-class central London by Multicultural London English, which draws on

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

by Carl Zimmer  · 9 Mar 2021  · 392pp  · 109,945 words

the earthquake had healed over since my last visit. But other fissures had opened up since then, ones that would be harder to fix. Wealthy tech workers priced out of Silicon Valley had streamed over the mountains, offering a million dollars for a petite bungalow. Near the town bus station I watched

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

by Michal Zalewski  · 11 Jan 2022  · 337pp  · 96,666 words

pain. When it comes to the ability to withstand downturns, high income is not as much of a benefit as many expect. Countless Silicon Valley tech workers collect cozy salaries of $150,000 or more but still live paycheck to paycheck. When the job market dried up overnight in 2007, the number

Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

by Kelly Starrett  · 20 Oct 2014

Global Smash (see here) T-Spine Double-Ball Strip (see here) Anterior Shoulder (see here) BRIEFING Every weekday morning in San Francisco, herds of high-tech workers line up at street corners, waiting for the charter bus to swing by and load them up for their daily trip to Silicon Valley. They

over his laptop with a 7-ounce baseball cap on his head. For the sake of connection, let’s say he’s one of the tech workers waiting for the Google bus on the corner of 18th and Dolores in San Francisco’s Mission District. He starts his day with his head

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

by Tom Chivers  · 12 Jun 2019  · 289pp  · 92,714 words

comparatively rare in some STEM careers, especially engineering and computer science; a study looking at 1998 data found that only 26 per cent of American tech workers were female.5 (Some reports suggest that the figure has actually gone down since then, to perhaps 20–23 per cent.6) Where the Rationalists

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

by Fred Kaplan  · 1 Mar 2016  · 383pp  · 105,021 words

more than a dozen universities—the University of Cincinnati, Harvard, Bryn Mawr, Duke, Pittsburgh, Auburn, among others—and the bureau sent agents to interview students, tech workers, and faculty on each campus. A few intriguing suspects were tagged here and there—an IT aide who answered questions nervously, a student with a

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

by Douglas Edwards  · 11 Jul 2011  · 496pp  · 154,363 words

side." "She used to be my assistant at Sun, but she left me for some hot new startup over in Cupertino." A surprising number of tech workers have friends and lovers with whom they share intimacy but not the details of their office lives. Google was no more immune to the lure

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey  · 19 May 2025  · 439pp  · 125,379 words

million, and one of the graduating companies from the last batch had been valued at $50 million.5 As startups filled offices in San Francisco, tech workers flooded formerly edgy neighborhoods like the Mission, pushing up the city’s median home price above $1 million. For the first time, there were more

Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

by Fred Vogelstein  · 12 Nov 2013  · 275pp  · 84,418 words

buses, which all have Wi-Fi, make those commutes not only tolerable but some of the most productive hours of the day. So many high-tech workers now live in San Francisco that some of the newest technology companies have followed them. A decade ago companies such as Zynga and Twitter would

Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert  · 4 Jun 2018  · 244pp  · 66,977 words

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck  · 13 Nov 2012  · 342pp  · 86,256 words

Fodor's Oregon

by Fodor's Travel Guides  · 13 Jun 2023  · 590pp  · 156,001 words

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

by Vikram Chandra  · 7 Nov 2013  · 239pp  · 64,812 words

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka  · 15 Jan 2024  · 321pp  · 105,480 words

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

by Ben Smith  · 2 May 2023

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro  · 523pp  · 154,042 words

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance Tech

by Cyrus Farivar  · 7 May 2018  · 397pp  · 110,222 words

Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

by Adam Lashinsky  · 31 Mar 2017  · 190pp  · 62,941 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home

by Dk Eyewitness  · 5 Apr 2023  · 168pp  · 33,200 words

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne  · 9 Sep 2019  · 482pp  · 121,173 words

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael Lewis  · 29 Sep 1999  · 146pp  · 43,446 words

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

by Douglas Coupland  · 29 Sep 2014  · 124pp  · 36,360 words

Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel

by Josh Riedel  · 17 Jan 2023  · 287pp  · 85,518 words

San Francisco Like a Local

by DK Eyewitness  · 4 Oct 2021  · 268pp  · 35,416 words

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

by Paige McClanahan  · 17 Jun 2024  · 206pp  · 78,882 words

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel  · 7 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 53,175 words

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer  · 7 Sep 2020  · 317pp  · 89,825 words

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

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

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

by Justin Fox  · 29 May 2009  · 461pp  · 128,421 words

Geography of Bliss

by Eric Weiner  · 1 Jan 2008  · 361pp  · 111,500 words

Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit

by Loren C. Steffy  · 5 Nov 2010  · 305pp  · 79,356 words

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

by Kelly Weill  · 22 Feb 2022

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker  · 14 Jun 2025  · 381pp  · 119,533 words

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg  · 5 Nov 2019  · 363pp  · 105,039 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way

by Tanja Hester  · 12 Feb 2019  · 231pp  · 76,283 words

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

by Gina Keating  · 10 Oct 2012  · 347pp  · 91,318 words

Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response

by Tony Connelly  · 4 Oct 2017  · 356pp  · 112,271 words

Bit Rot

by Douglas Coupland  · 4 Oct 2016

The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

by Marc Freedman  · 15 Dec 2011  · 233pp  · 64,479 words

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

by Ronald Cohen  · 1 Jul 2020  · 276pp  · 59,165 words

Daemon

by Daniel Suarez  · 1 Dec 2006  · 562pp  · 146,544 words

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)

by Golden Krishna  · 10 Feb 2015  · 271pp  · 62,538 words

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz  · 15 Mar 2021  · 414pp  · 109,622 words

The Rough Guide to Berlin

by Rough Guides  · 550pp  · 151,946 words

App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream

by Michael Sayman  · 20 Sep 2021  · 285pp  · 91,144 words

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre  · 18 Jan 2023

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History

by Nellie Bowles  · 13 May 2024  · 207pp  · 62,397 words

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen  · 30 Sep 2019

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

by Marc Randolph  · 16 Sep 2019  · 334pp  · 102,899 words

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

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

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

by Hamish McKenzie  · 30 Sep 2017  · 307pp  · 90,634 words

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters  · 15 Sep 2014  · 185pp  · 43,609 words

Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

by Lauren A. Rivera  · 3 May 2015  · 497pp  · 130,817 words

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

by Matthew B. Crawford  · 8 Jun 2020  · 386pp  · 113,709 words

Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

by Matthew Syed  · 9 Sep 2019  · 280pp  · 76,638 words

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden  · 24 Oct 2022  · 392pp  · 114,189 words

Automation and the Future of Work

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

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe  · 3 Oct 2022  · 689pp  · 134,457 words

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson  · 284pp  · 96,087 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

JPod

by Douglas Coupland  · 30 Apr 2007  · 487pp  · 95,085 words

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)

by Jamie Bartlett  · 4 Apr 2018  · 170pp  · 49,193 words

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

by Will Storr  · 14 Jun 2017  · 431pp  · 129,071 words

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

by Alex Kantrowitz  · 6 Apr 2020  · 260pp  · 67,823 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

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

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans  · 25 Apr 2023  · 427pp  · 134,098 words

The Passenger

by AA.VV.  · 23 May 2022  · 192pp  · 59,615 words

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian  · 4 Apr 2023  · 360pp  · 107,124 words

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

by Matthew Yglesias  · 14 Sep 2020

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement

by Rich Karlgaard  · 15 Apr 2019  · 321pp  · 92,828 words

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger  · 11 Oct 2021  · 572pp  · 124,222 words

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson  · 15 Nov 2021  · 458pp  · 132,912 words

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer  · 4 Mar 2014  · 559pp  · 169,094 words

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification

by Peter Moskowitz  · 7 Mar 2017  · 288pp  · 83,690 words

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2010  · 386pp  · 122,595 words

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

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

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons  · 4 Apr 2016  · 284pp  · 92,688 words

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson  · 26 Mar 2019  · 499pp  · 144,278 words

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil  · 5 Sep 2016  · 252pp  · 72,473 words

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang  · 6 Feb 2018  · 334pp  · 104,382 words

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss  · 12 Sep 2012

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

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang  · 12 Oct 2020  · 196pp  · 61,981 words

The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul

by Isabel Kershner  · 16 May 2023  · 472pp  · 145,476 words

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

by Kimberly Clausing  · 4 Mar 2019  · 555pp  · 80,635 words

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

by Cary McClelland  · 8 Oct 2018  · 225pp  · 70,241 words

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

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

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

by Harold James  · 15 Jan 2023  · 469pp  · 137,880 words

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream

by Alissa Quart  · 14 Mar 2023  · 304pp  · 86,028 words

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani  · 20 Feb 2024  · 262pp  · 69,328 words

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

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

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

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

Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy

by Callum Cant  · 11 Nov 2019  · 196pp  · 55,862 words

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin  · 9 Jun 2005

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle

by Jamie Woodcock  · 17 Jun 2019  · 236pp  · 62,158 words

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

by Emily Guendelsberger  · 15 Jul 2019  · 382pp  · 114,537 words

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang  · 10 Mar 2020  · 257pp  · 76,785 words

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

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

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

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

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

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future

by Hal Niedzviecki  · 15 Mar 2015  · 343pp  · 102,846 words

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

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

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

by Andrew Yang  · 2 Apr 2018  · 300pp  · 76,638 words

The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?

by Robert X. Cringely  · 1 Jun 2014  · 232pp  · 71,024 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

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley  · 10 Jun 2013

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

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

by Brigid Schulte  · 11 Mar 2014  · 455pp  · 133,719 words

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

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart  · 25 Jun 2018  · 320pp  · 90,526 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

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

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together

by Philippe Legrain  · 14 Oct 2020  · 521pp  · 110,286 words

The Big Score

by Michael S. Malone  · 20 Jul 2021

Economic Dignity

by Gene Sperling  · 14 Sep 2020  · 667pp  · 149,811 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

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Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

by Celeste Headlee  · 10 Mar 2020  · 246pp  · 74,404 words

The Future Is Asian

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

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro  · 30 Aug 2021  · 345pp  · 92,063 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

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

Hacking Capitalism

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The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Who Stole the American Dream?

by Hedrick Smith  · 10 Sep 2012  · 598pp  · 172,137 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future

by Noreena Hertz  · 13 May 2020  · 506pp  · 133,134 words

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

by Kevin Roose  · 9 Mar 2021  · 208pp  · 57,602 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

by Virginia Eubanks  · 1 Feb 2011  · 289pp  · 99,936 words

The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti  · 21 May 2012  · 403pp  · 87,035 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

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip  · 9 Mar 2021  · 661pp  · 156,009 words

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis  · 16 Mar 2021  · 426pp  · 136,925 words

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao  · 19 May 2025  · 660pp  · 179,531 words

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant  · 25 Sep 2023  · 524pp  · 154,652 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

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

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words