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Books that compute; critical takes on the tech industry and how it's shaped our lives.

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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
  • Arvind Narayanan
  • Sayash Kapoor
3.633 reads
Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  • Kai-Fu Lee
443 reads
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  • Brian Christian
  • Tom Griffiths
4.01143 reads
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
  • Madhumita Murgia
3.889 reads
Co-Intelligence
Co-Intelligence
  • Ethan Mollick
4.1127 reads
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
  • Joseph Weizenbaum
4.51 read
Cybernetics
Cybernetics
  • Norbert Wiener
44 reads
Data and Goliath
Data and Goliath
  • Bruce Schneier
3.7812 reads
Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
  • Sarah Lamdan
42 reads
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
  • Cal Newport
4.02406 reads
Everything Is Predictable
Everything Is Predictable
  • Tom Chivers
45 reads
Extreme Privacy
Extreme Privacy
  • Michael Bazzell
00 reads
Future Crimes
Future Crimes
  • Marc Goodman
4.338 reads
Ghost in the Wires
Ghost in the Wires
  • Kevin D. Mitnick
3.98134 reads
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  • Caroline Criado Perez
4.28261 reads
Permanent Record
Permanent Record
  • Edward Snowden
4.43215 reads
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Stand out of our Light

Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
  • James Williams
52 reads
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
  • Johann Hari
3.89184 reads
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
  • Yasha Levine
35 reads
The Battle for Your Brain
The Battle for Your Brain
  • Nita Farahany
44 reads
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
  • Simon Singh
4.17107 reads
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
  • Celeste Vaughan Curington
  • Jennifer Hickes Lundquist
  • Ken-Hou Lin
00 reads
The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
  • Jessica Maddox
00 reads
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  • Cathy O'Neil
3.73127 reads
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
  • Susan Fowler
4.339 reads