Tech & Futurism
Read about how technology is shaping our world in the present and for the future.
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Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation
Marantz, Andrew, author
2019
The darkest web : drugs, death and destroyed lives... the inside story of the internet's evil twin
Ormsby, Eileen, author
2019
Hitmen for hire, drugs for sale. Inside the dangerous world that lurks beneath the bright, friendly light of your internet screen. Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the Dark Web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms and been threatened by hitmen on murder-for-hire sites. On occasions, her dark web activities have poured out into the real world and she has attended trials, met with criminals and the law enforcement who tracked them down, interviewed dark web identities and visited them in prison. This book will take you into the murkiest depths of the web's dark underbelly: a place of hitmen for hire, red rooms, hurtcore sites and markets that will sell anything a person is willing to pay for - including another person. The Darkest Web.
The end of absence : reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection
Harris, Michael, 1980- author
2014
The fourth age : smart robots, conscious computers, and the future of humanity
Reese, Byron, author
2018
The future is faster than you think : how converging technologies are transforming business, industries, and our lives
Diamandis, Peter H., author
2020
I know who you are and I saw what you did : social networks and the death of privacy
Andrews, Lori B., 1952-
2012
The information trade : how big tech conquers countries, challenges our rights, and transforms our world
Wichowski, Alexis, author
2020
Today's major technology companies - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and others - wield more power than national governments. In this comprehensive, engaging, and prescriptive book, she considers their growing and unavoidable influence in our lives, showing in eye-opening detail how these net states are conquering countries, disrupting reality, and jeopardizing our future. Wichowski explores what happens when we cede our power to them, willingly trading our personal freedom and individual autonomy for an easy, plugged-in existence.
Lurking : how a person became a user
McNeil, Joanne, author.
2020
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from-for the first time-the point of view of the user.
Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy
Taplin, Jonathan T., author
2017
No filter : the inside story of Instagram
Frier, Sarah, author
2020
"Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade"-- Provided by publisher.
Rage inside the machine : the prejudice of algorithms, and how to stop the internet making bigots of us all
Smith, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1963- author.
2019
Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future
Ford, Martin (Martin R.), author
2015
Sandworm : a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous hackers
Greenberg, Andy, author
2019
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen, including the first-ever blackouts triggered by hackers. The hackers behind these attacks are quickly gaining a reputation as the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors in history.
The smartphone society : technology, power, and resistance in the new gilded age
Aschoff, Nicole Marie, 1980- author
2020
Smartphones have appeared everywhere seemingly overnight. However, the price of connection is paid in something incredibly lucrative: data. Users are more vulnerable than ever before to have their private data mined without their knowledge or consent. This book identifies the lasting ripple effects of this technology, unveiling the social, political, economic, and ecological relationships embedded in these pocket-sized computers that we take everywhere we go.
Soonish : ten emerging technologies that'll improve and/or ruin everything
Weinersmith, Kelly, author
2017
Thinking machines : the quest for artificial intelligence--and where it's taking us next
Dormehl, Luke, author.
2017
An ugly truth : inside Facebook's battle for domination
Frenkel, Sheera, author
2021
Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech ... Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex court politics, alliances and rivalries within the company to shine a light on the fatal cracks in the architecture of the tech behemoth.
A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond
Susskind, Daniel, author
2020
A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK.