technoutopianism Concepts

The End of Work

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

Age' in Clayre, A1asdair, ed., Nature and Industrialization: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 229-231. 5. Segal, Howard, "The Technological Utopians," in Com, pp. 119-120; Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), p. 20. 6. Howard, Albert, The Milltillionaire (Boston: 1895), p. 9. 7. Segal

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: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), p. 75. 20. Galbraith, John Kenneth, The New Industrial State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), pp. 101, 94. 21. Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture, p. 115. 22. Warren, Maude Radford, Saturday Evening Post, March 12,1912, pp. 11-13, 34-35· 23. Callahan, Raymond, Education and

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the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, 1992. Schor, Juliet, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1991. Segal, Howard, Technological Utopianism in American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Simons, Geoff, Robots: The Quest for Living Machines. New York: Sterling, 1992. Bibliography 335 _ _~, Silicon Shock

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

ideals. By the 1990s, each of these elements had come to play an important role in building the rhetorical and social infrastructure on which the technoutopianism of the decade depended. But they also represented a new, networked mode of organizing the production of goods, information, and social structure itself. Fifty years

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temporal levels, one short-term and one long-term. At the short-term level, they have helped synthesize and disseminate key terms on which the techno-utopianism and Internet bubble of the 1990s depended. At the long-term level, they have naturalized and legitimated the technologies, theories, and work patterns of the

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

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

back-flap biography boasts corporate consulting gigs with Nokia, News Corp, BP, the U.S. Navy, Lego, and others. Shirky embodies the strange mix of technological utopianism and business opportunism common to many Internet entrepreneurs and commentators, a combination of populist rhetoric and unrepentant commercialism. Many of amateurism’s loudest advocates are

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Nathan Jurgenson, “The IRL Fetish,” New Inquiry, June 28, 2012. 2. Since I began working on this book, a number of interesting books critical of techno-utopianism were published, including but not limited to Douglas Rushkoff’s (New York: Or Books, 2011); Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

by Morgan G. Ames · 19 Nov 2019 · 426pp · 117,775 words

can’t think of a better way to do it.”19 ... One Laptop per Child serves as a case study in the complicated consequences of technological utopianism. The puzzle of this book is to untangle what made this project and its laptop so captivating and even the most outrageous claims about it

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common in business schools and technology-management literature.23 Still, a reliance on modeling development projects on the technology world risks taking on the reckless technological utopianism that is rife in that world as well—especially in venture capital. And the influence is one they are proud of. “Look at Silicon Valley

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simply flows from the Global North to passive and grateful recipients in the Global South.37 At the same time, they have also demonstrated how technological utopianism can obscure problematic elements of development projects, such as corporate greed, inequitable distribution, neoliberal policies, and wasted resources.38 In Paraguay, we found that one

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to “stay with the trouble,” which is what this account has tried to do throughout. We can acknowledge the importance of charisma, social imaginaries, and technological utopianism but also recognize that utopianism is at best a dialectic, not an aspiration. It is most useful as a method for interrogating, understanding, dwelling in

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, “Technology Today”; Turner, “Digital Technology”; Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture; Mansell, Imagining the Internet. 86. See Kling, Computerization and Controversy; Nye, American Technological Sublime; Segal, Technological Utopianism; Winner, “Technology Today”; Mosco, Digital Sublime; Turner, “Digital Technology”; Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture. 87. Hill, “Geek Shall Inherit the Earth.” 88. Papert, “Digital Development

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, “Burning Man at Google”; Turner, “Counterculture Met the New Economy”; Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture. 23. Ames and Rosner, “From Drills to Laptops.” 24. Segal, Technological Utopianism, 170. 25. Mosco, Digital Sublime, 22. 26. Mosco, Digital Sublime., 3–6. 27. Tyack and Cuban, Tinkering toward Utopia, 1–11; Ames, “Charismatic Technology.” 28

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.” May 8, 2011. https://www.scidev.net/america-latina/brecha-digital/noticias/paraguay-ampliar-a-plan-de-computadoras-para-ni-os.html. Segal, Howard P. Technological Utopianism in American Culture. Twentieth anniversary edition. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005. Self, John. Microcomputers in Education: A Critical Evaluation of Educational Software. Brighton, UK

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XO laptop, flaws in, 89–90, 99, 244nn55–56 Development disruption and, 183 performativity in, 173, 178–183, 250n12 Silicon Valley model of, 178–179 technological utopianism in, problems of, 195, 254n37 United Nations program for, 3 Digital native, 228n47 Disruption of classroom, OLPC expectations of, 83, 92, 106–107 performing development

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

by Benjamin Breen · 16 Jan 2024 · 384pp · 118,573 words

drugs had a part to play in it. Hubbard embodied many of Mead’s worst qualities, offering up a particularly simplistic and exaggerated form of techno-utopianism in his “shortcut” to mental health through drugs and hypnosis. In his distorted popularization of the Macy circle’s thinking, he showed how potent the

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The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). On the history of technological utopianism in the twentieth century, see William E. Akin, Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900–1941 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977); Howard

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P. Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005); and Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Oxford: Oxford

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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

Jonathan Taplin in his 2017 book, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy—between Brand’s original technological utopianism and Silicon Valley–centered digital libertarianism that emerged with a group of Stanford-educated young Turks known as the PayPal Mafia during the dot-com

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

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

of extra money on their regular commutes. Seen through the modern libertarian lens that drives thinking among adherents to free market economics and strands of technological utopianism, jitneys may seem like an innovative business undertaken by entrepreneurial individuals to fill a gap in the transportation system of the early twentieth century, but

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

. Weirdly, Peter Thiel understands this better than most tech billionaires. “The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism—the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

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

. Instead, people are free to focus on greater ends: “We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” Star Trek is fiction, but its technological utopianism is very real. MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte clearly shares it. So does Google chairman Eric Schmidt. In The New Digital Age, he and

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society, just give them the Internet.”39 If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet. This is a classic statement of technological utopianism. As in Star Trek, where technology eradicates hunger, Ghonim is saying that the Internet eradicates autocracy. Coming from someone directly involved in the revolution, it

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full potential of the technology to address health care, home economics, governance, nonfarming vocational training, and everything else in a single stroke? But that’s technological utopianism. There’s a wrong way and a right way to work with the underlying intention. The wrong way is to believe that the packaged intervention

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words

of the Bush years in his bestselling book The World Is Flat, published in 2005 in the midst of the Iraqi occupation. The book’s techno-utopianism echoed that of Clinton-era cyberspace enthusiasts Esther Dyson, George Gilder, and Alvin Toffler. But if the latter group was mostly focused on the cybernetic

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. Techno-utopianism could no longer hide the truth that serious structural imbalances in the global economy threatened not just to collapse economies but to rend the social

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self-knowledge resulting from this revolution was held up as liberating, as delivering on the neoliberal promise of personal freedom and emancipation. Now that the technological utopianism of the 1990s and 2000s is gone, the measurement imperative that remains has become as much a mechanism for tyrannizing the self—with the relentless

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

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

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

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

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 words

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov · 16 Nov 2010 · 538pp · 141,822 words

What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed

by Robert Skidelsky · 3 Mar 2020 · 290pp · 76,216 words

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

by Howard P. Segal · 20 May 2012 · 299pp · 19,560 words

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality

by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words

Howard Rheingold

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

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

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

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig · 15 Mar 2020

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

by Edward Tenner · 1 Sep 1997

The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett · 20 Aug 2014 · 267pp · 82,580 words

Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch · 1 Jan 1978

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani · 10 Jun 2019 · 280pp · 74,559 words

If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

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

Victorian Internet

by Tom Standage · 1 Jan 1998

4th Rock From the Sun: The Story of Mars

by Nicky Jenner · 5 Apr 2017 · 294pp · 87,986 words

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

by Sean McFate · 22 Jan 2019 · 330pp · 83,319 words

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

by David Golumbia · 25 Sep 2016 · 87pp · 25,823 words

Alone Together

by Sherry Turkle · 11 Jan 2011 · 542pp · 161,731 words

The New Class Conflict

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

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words

Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles

by Fintan O'Toole · 5 Mar 2020 · 385pp · 121,550 words

How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road

by Gareth Dennis · 12 Nov 2024 · 261pp · 76,645 words

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future

by Jeff Booth · 14 Jan 2020 · 180pp · 55,805 words

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 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

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

by James Bridle · 6 Apr 2022 · 502pp · 132,062 words

Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight

by Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker · 1 Jun 2011 · 376pp · 110,796 words

Meantime: The Brilliant 'Unputdownable Crime Novel' From Frankie Boyle

by Frankie Boyle · 20 Jul 2022 · 286pp · 86,480 words

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

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

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

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

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future

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

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008

The Techno-Human Condition

by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman · 4 Sep 2023 · 444pp · 117,770 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia

by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words

The Googlization of Everything:

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

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019

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

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

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

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

Track Changes

by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum · 1 May 2016 · 519pp · 142,646 words

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

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

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

by Stephen Cave · 2 Apr 2012 · 299pp · 98,943 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

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

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

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

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

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

by Vaclav Smil · 23 Sep 2019

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

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

The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 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

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

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

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words

Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World

by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words

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

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

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

by Christopher Summerfield · 11 Mar 2025 · 412pp · 122,298 words

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac · 17 Sep 2024

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

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

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Jun 2017 · 390pp · 109,870 words

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

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The Great Firewall of China

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Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

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Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

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Team Human

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

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby · 22 Nov 2013 · 165pp · 45,397 words

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

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

The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution Is Making the World a Better Place

by Felix Marquardt · 7 Jul 2021 · 250pp · 75,151 words

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan · 6 Jun 2016 · 252pp · 73,131 words

How to Do Nothing

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For the Win

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Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us (Perspectives)

by David Birch · 14 Jun 2017 · 275pp · 84,980 words

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words

Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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Lurking: How a Person Became a User

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

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

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

The Longing for Less: Living With Minimalism

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

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

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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

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Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman · 22 Sep 2016

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben · 15 Apr 2019

Collaborative Futures

by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv · 24 Aug 2010 · 188pp · 9,226 words

The Industries of the Future

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

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

by Andrew L. Russell · 27 Apr 2014 · 675pp · 141,667 words

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

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

Orwell Versus the Terrorists: A Digital Short

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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy · 15 Mar 2020 · 296pp · 83,254 words

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

by Peter Geoghegan · 2 Jan 2020 · 388pp · 111,099 words

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

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

This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain

by William Davies · 28 Sep 2020 · 210pp · 65,833 words

Hacking Capitalism

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Automation and the Future of Work

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

by Kevin Carey · 3 Mar 2015 · 319pp · 90,965 words

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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

Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet

by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy · 30 Apr 2013 · 452pp · 134,502 words