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Robot Futures, About Our Robotic Friends and Foes by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh

On May 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms.

A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World’s Most Legendary Watch by Stacy Perman

On May 8, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the Spam Business by Finn Brunton

On May 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

Who Owns the Future? Arguments by the Prophet of Silicon Valley Jaron Lanier

On May 5, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology is transforming our culture. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

On April 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov

On April 13, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

Arguing that we badly need a new, post-Internet way to debate the moral consequences of digital technologies, To Save Everything, Click Here warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley’s digital straitjacket.

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, A Dire Prognosis of Society’s Ills by Douglas Rushkoff

On March 14, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Absorbing and thought-provoking, Present Shock is a wide-ranging, deeply thought meditation on what it means to be human in real time. Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture.

Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating by Dan Slater

On February 14, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Documenting the untold story of the online-dating industry’s rise from ignominy to ubiquity—beginning with its early days as “computer dating” at Harvard in 1965—Slater offers a lively, entertaining, and thought provoking account of how we have, for better and worse, embraced technology in the most intimate aspect of our lives.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

On January 20, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Science, Technology, by Editor

Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll

On January 14, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.

Robot Futures, About Our Robotic Friends and Foes by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh

A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World’s Most Legendary Watch by Stacy Perman

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

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