Technically Wrong

Technically Wrong

By
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
2017 • 240 pages

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21 books

Tech Reading List

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Nikki Vinayan
Technically Wrong
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Black Software
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

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9 books

AI & LLMs

adam
AdamSupporter
Unmasking AI
I, Human
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The Coming Wave
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

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34 books

Software Development

agarrharr
Adam Garrett-Harris
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Ghost in the Wires
Sams Teach Yourself SQL™ in 10 Minutes
Technically Wrong
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
iWoz

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41 books

On Deck

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AdamSupporter
Dark Age
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Just City
Consider Phlebas
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Canticle for Leibowitz

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27 books

Science Tech

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Emma Brillhart
Technically Wrong
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Fatal Invention

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48 books

Owned

bramhill
Mark Bramhill
The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Reality Radio
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
This Is Not My Hat

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11 books

A.I. Thinking

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Mark Bramhill
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
More than a Glitch
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Artificial Intelligence
Technically Wrong
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

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36 books

Technology

Apeiron
Alina
The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Life 3.0
Intelligence and Spirit
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
How to Create a Mind
How Smart Machines Think

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66 books

Technology

zach
zach
Troublemakers
Dealers of Lightning
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Truth Machine
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
The One Device

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81 books

Sd Bookclub

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Steph
Small Giants
The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a Time
The Thank You Economy
Peak Performance
Deep Thinking
Mindful Emotion

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56 books

Aadl

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Latitude
Picture Us in the Light
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
Witches of Ash and Ruin
Giant Days
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
The Real Boy
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7 books

Ethics Rec

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Latitude
Technically Wrong
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power

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24 books

Owned

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Mark W
Make Time
A Game of Thrones
Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy
Ready Player One
Jerusalem A Cookbook
Year Zero

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24 books

Tbr

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Nika
Radio Silence
Errant, Volume One
Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of Five Elements
The Fire in Fiction
The Fifth Elephant
Technically Wrong
Leaf Storm and Other Stories

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52 books

Tech Ethics

marblemenow
Hana Gabrielle Bidon
The Ethical Algorithm
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library
Technology, Activism, and Social Justice in a Digital Age
Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing
The Loop

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17,841 books

My Library

Nitin
Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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1,164 books

Prn

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Paul Nadeau
Who Is Rich?
The Rules Do Not Apply
Other Russias
The Idiot
Priestdaddy
Revolutionary Road
The Satanic Verses

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46 books

Tech Lit

Cockroach
Matt
Back Up Ein Hacker Thriller
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
The Power of One: Blowing the Whistle on Facebook
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Blockchain Chicken Farm

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3,544 books

Owned Ebook

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Kat
The Carpet People
The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
Anathem
Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
Bloodchild and Other Stories

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111 books

Read In 2017

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Kat
Time Travel: A History
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
My Life in France
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination

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38 books

Causes Sociales Essais

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christine
Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity
The Blacks in Canada: A History
Black Loyalists
La souveraineté du Québec
Educated: A Memoir
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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38 books

Informatique

chrstngrx
christine
Life 3.0
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Civilized Engineer
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Spiritomb
Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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31 books

Classism

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Spiritomb
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Inequality by design
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class
The Mismeasure of Man
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster

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222 books

Political Philosophy And Theory

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Spiritomb
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Statism and Anarchy
God and the State
The Half Has Never Been Told
The Second Sex
Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Blessed
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