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

By
Amy Webb
Amy Webb
2019

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Nitin
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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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Inge
Little Fires Everywhere
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Sharp Objects
American Kingpin
The Angel of Darkness
The Alienist
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Business

Diogenes
Diogenes
The Millionaire Next Door
Liar's Poker
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition

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25 books

Nonfiction

Diogenes
Diogenes
Walden
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Outliers: The Story of Success

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10 books

Technology

Diogenes
Diogenes
Big Data
Cracking the PM Interview
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Adventures of an IT Leader
Steve Jobs

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Anatomy of a Suicide
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Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
The Denial of Death

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2023 Reading Challenge

michaelvh
Mikey
The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology
Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890
White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka
The Library of the Dead
In Praise of Slowness
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

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Sociology Anthropology

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Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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113 books

Technology

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Life on the Screen
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
Never Use Futura
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Fabric of Civilization
Permanent Record

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Social Commentary

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Something That May Shock and Discredit You
The Tent
The Rifle
Walden
Life in Code
Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

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Social Media

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The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
About Face The Odyssey of an American Warrior
The Internet of Garbage
a tumblr book: platform and cultures
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

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22 books

Artificial Intelligence

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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Mirror Project
Show Us Who You Are
Artificial Intelligence
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

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1st Reference

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The Startup Owner's Manual
Hard to be a god
Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition

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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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Diogenes
Diogenes
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Magician: Apprentice
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Walden
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics