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Spiritomb

Technology

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#2
Life on the Screen
Life on the Screen
  • Sherry Turkle
4.335 reads
#3
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
  • Wade Rowland
00 reads
#4
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Furious

Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures
  • Caroline Bassett
  • Sarah Kember
  • Kate O'Riordan
00 reads
#5
Never Use Futura
Never Use Futura
  • Douglas Thomas
4.176 reads
#6
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
  • Witold Rybczynski
01 read
#7
Fabric of Civilization
Fabric of Civilization
  • Virginia Postrel
4.49 reads
#8
Permanent Record
Permanent Record
  • Edward Snowden
4.43221 reads
#9
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
  • James Vincent
51 read
#10
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
  • Seth Donnelly
00 reads
#11
On paper
On paper
  • Nicholas A. Basbanes
01 read
#12
Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work
Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work
  • Simon Egbert
00 reads
#13
The Psychology of Silicon Valley: Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry
The Psychology of Silicon Valley: Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry
  • Katy Cook
31 read
#14
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
  • Tom Standage
00 reads
#15
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Tech Stress

Tech Stress: How Technology is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics
  • Erik Peper
  • Richard Harvey
  • Nancy Faass
00 reads
#16
How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
  • Brian Ward
00 reads
#17
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The Psychology of Computer Programming

The Psychology of Computer Programming
  • Gerald M. Weinberg
4.675 reads
#18
Data and Goliath
Data and Goliath
  • Bruce Schneier
3.7812 reads
#19
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • Joanne McNeil
3.8610 reads
#20
Broad Band
Broad Band
  • Claire L. Evans
3.9317 reads
#21
System Error
System Error
  • Mehran Sahami
  • Rob Reich
  • Jeremy Weinstein
01 read
#22
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Atlas of AI

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
  • Kate Crawford
00 reads
#23
Hackerlar
Hackerlar
  • Steven Levy
4.0851 reads
#24
The Soul of A New Machine
The Soul of A New Machine
  • Tracy Kidder
4.54 reads
#25
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
  • Katie Hafner
  • Matthew Lyon
419 reads
#26
Coders
Coders
  • Clive Thompson
4.0828 reads
#27
Ghost in the Wires
Ghost in the Wires
  • Kevin D. Mitnick
3.98138 reads
#28
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The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
  • Kevin D. Mitnick
  • William L. Simon
31 read
#29
Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley
  • Anna Wiener
3.91129 reads
#30
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
  • Brittany Kaiser
00 reads
#31
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
  • Tim Hwang
41 read
#32
Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams
  • Chelsea Wald
4.56 reads
#33
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
  • Chad Orzel
33 reads
#34
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
  • Scott Alan Johnston
00 reads
#35
The Weaponisation of Everything
The Weaponisation of Everything
  • Mark Galeotti
00 reads
#36
Blood in the Machine
Blood in the Machine
  • Brian Merchant
4.4414 reads
#37
The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
  • Aaron Perzanowski
00 reads
#38
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects
  • Neil MacGregor
4.2720 reads
#39
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
  • Marc Levinson
3.729 reads
#40
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
  • Henry Petroski
31 read
#41
Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History
  • Barbara Freese
2.835 reads
#42
Mauve
Mauve
  • Simon Garfield
21 read
#43
Color
Color
  • Victoria Finlay
3.714 reads
#44
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
  • Rebecca Giblin
  • Cory Doctorow
4.3324 reads
#45
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
  • Emily Chang
433 reads
#46
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
  • Amy Webb
4.336 reads
#47
Facebook
Facebook
  • Steven Levy
412 reads
#48
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
  • Steven Levy
3.960 reads
#49
The Race Underground
The Race Underground
  • Doug Most
3.52 reads
#50
Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment
Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
01 read
#51
Art in the Alphabet: A History of the Evolution of Hand Lettering
Art in the Alphabet: A History of the Evolution of Hand Lettering
  • Lewis Foreman Day
00 reads
#52
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
  • Dennis Baron
21 read
#53
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
  • William McDonough
427 reads
#54
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
  • John Gaudet
00 reads
#55
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
  • Justin E. H. Smith
00 reads
#56
Don't Be Evil
Don't Be Evil
  • Rana Foroohar
3.53 reads
#57
BiblioTech
BiblioTech
  • John Palfrey
31 read
#58
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
  • Jason Steinhauer
00 reads
#59
The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
  • Nathan L. Ensmenger
00 reads
#60
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
  • Paris Marx
00 reads
#61
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Automation and the Future of Work

Automation and the Future of Work
  • Aaron Benanav
31 read
#62
Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
  • Herman Narula
00 reads
#63
The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design
The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design
  • Eric Zimmerman
00 reads
#64
How Music Got Free
How Music Got Free
  • Stephen Witt
4.1925 reads
#65
You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
  • Adrian Hon
52 reads
#66
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
  • Darrell Hartman
41 read
#67
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
  • Sherry Turkle
3.2513 reads
#68
Internet for the People
Internet for the People
  • Ben Tarnoff
33 reads
#69
How We Got to Now
How We Got to Now
  • Steven Johnson
3.9126 reads
#70
Shareware Heroes
Shareware Heroes
  • Richard Moss
10 reads
#71
More than a Glitch
More than a Glitch
  • Meredith Broussard
4.333 reads
#72
The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene Reviewed
  • John Green
4.36363 reads
#73
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
  • Ashley Shew
4.510 reads
#74
Samuel Morse, That's Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code
Samuel Morse, That's Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code
  • Tracy Nelson Maurer
00 reads
#75
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
  • Kathryn Lasky
00 reads
#76
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
  • Rebecca Struthers
52 reads
#77
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
  • Meryl Alper
00 reads
#78
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
  • Virginia Eubanks
3.7917 reads
#79
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On Being a Data Skeptic

On Being a Data Skeptic
  • Cathy O'Neil
3.52 reads
#80
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
  • Yochai Benkler
  • Robert Faris
  • Hal Roberts
01 read
#81
Ghost Work
Ghost Work
  • Mary L. Gray
  • Siddhartha Suri
  • Siddharth Suri
3.755 reads
#82
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
  • Lisa Margonelli
01 read
#83
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
  • Stuart Russell
422 reads
#84
Hyphens & Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard
Hyphens & Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard
  • Claire Cock-Starkey
00 reads
#85
Papyrus
Papyrus
  • Irene Vallejo
  • Maria Meinel (Translator)
  • Luis Ruby (Translator)
4.336 reads
#86
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
  • Tamara Kneese
01 read
#87
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
  • Dan Ackerman
3.1710 reads
#88
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The Things We Make

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
  • Bill Hammack
00 reads
#89
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
  • Robert Courland
41 read
#90
Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour
Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour
  • Antonio Aloisi
  • Valerio De Stefano
00 reads
#91
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
  • Ruha Benjamin
4.513 reads
#92
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
  • Nick Couldry
  • Ulises A. Mejias
00 reads
#93
Your Computer Is on Fire
Your Computer Is on Fire
    43 reads
    #94
    Predict and Surveil
    Predict and Surveil
    • Sarah Brayne
    00 reads
    #95
    The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
    The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
    • Alice E. Marwick
    00 reads
    #96
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    The Two Revolutions

    The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet
    • Avery Dame-Griff
    00 reads
    #97
    The Equality Machine
    The Equality Machine
    • Orly Lobel
    00 reads
    #98
    The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
    The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
    • Andrew Blum
    4.179 reads
    #99
    The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
    • Vince Beiser
    4.335 reads
    #100
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    The Chemical Age

    The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
    • Frank von Hippel
    51 read
    #101
    The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
    The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
    • Laine Nooney
    3.53 reads