50 Books like The Mobile Wave

The Big Switch

by Nicholas Carr • 2008

What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.

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⚡ History Of Technology ☁️ Cloud Computing 🔄 Digital Transformation 💰 Winner-Take-All Economics 👁️ Attention Economy

The Big Switch 97%

What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.

by Nicholas Carr 2008

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3k+ ratings

⚡ History Of Technology ☁️ Cloud Computing 🔄 Digital Transformation 💰 Winner-Take-All Economics 👁️ Attention Economy

ColdFusion Presents

by Dagogo Altraide • 2019

From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.

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780

🏭 History Of Technology 🔬 History Of Science 💡 History Of Innovation 💻 Digital Revolution 📈 Technological Change

ColdFusion Presents 96%

From steam to AI: the chain of breakthroughs that built the modern world, every link essential.

by Dagogo Altraide 2019

4.17

780 ratings

🏭 History Of Technology 🔬 History Of Science 💡 History Of Innovation 💻 Digital Revolution 📈 Technological Change

The Inevitable

by Kevin Kelly • 2016

Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.

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🔄 Digital Economy 🔮 Technological Forecasting 📊 Information Economy 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🌐 Networked Society

The Inevitable 96%

Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.

by Kevin Kelly 2016

3.89

12k+ ratings

🔄 Digital Economy 🔮 Technological Forecasting 📊 Information Economy 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🌐 Networked Society

The Exponential Age

by Azeem Azhar • 2021

Tech accelerates exponentially; institutions crawl. The gap is reshaping wealth, work, and war.

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🤖 Technology And Society ⚡ Digital Disruption 🐌 Institutional Lag 🏆 Winner-Takes-All Markets 💻 Platform Economy

The Exponential Age 96%

Tech accelerates exponentially; institutions crawl. The gap is reshaping wealth, work, and war.

by Azeem Azhar 2021

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1k+ ratings

🤖 Technology And Society ⚡ Digital Disruption 🐌 Institutional Lag 🏆 Winner-Takes-All Markets 💻 Platform Economy

Being Digital

by Nicholas Negroponte • 1995

Why your TV, newspaper, and phone are about to merge into one seamless stream of bits.

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💻 Digital Transformation 📡 Media Convergence 🎛️ Interface Design 🕶️ Virtual Reality 🌐 Ubiquitous Computing

Being Digital 96%

Why your TV, newspaper, and phone are about to merge into one seamless stream of bits.

by Nicholas Negroponte 1995

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2k+ ratings

💻 Digital Transformation 📡 Media Convergence 🎛️ Interface Design 🕶️ Virtual Reality 🌐 Ubiquitous Computing

How to Fix the Future

by Andrew Keen • 2017

The digital revolution feels unprecedented. It isn't. The fix is the same as last time.

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273

🌐 Digital Society ⚖️ Tech Policy 🔮 Technological Determinism ✋ Digital Humanism 🏙️ Smart Cities

How to Fix the Future 95%

The digital revolution feels unprecedented. It isn't. The fix is the same as last time.

by Andrew Keen 2017

3.36

273 ratings

🌐 Digital Society ⚖️ Tech Policy 🔮 Technological Determinism ✋ Digital Humanism 🏙️ Smart Cities

How the Internet Happened

by Brian McCullough • 2018

The Internet was not inevitable: a handful of companies built it in a frantic twenty-year race.

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🖥️ Internet History 💸 Dot-Com Bubble 🔧 Tech History 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🧭 Internet Pioneers

How the Internet Happened 95%

The Internet was not inevitable: a handful of companies built it in a frantic twenty-year race.

by Brian McCullough 2018

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2k+ ratings

🖥️ Internet History 💸 Dot-Com Bubble 🔧 Tech History 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🧭 Internet Pioneers

The Road Ahead

by Bill Gates • 1995

In 1995, Bill Gates mapped the digital future: commerce, education, and homes that recognize you.

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🚀 Tech Futurism 🌐 Early Internet Predictions 🖥️ Personal Computing History ☀️ Techno-Optimism 💾 Software And Society

The Road Ahead 95%

In 1995, Bill Gates mapped the digital future: commerce, education, and homes that recognize you.

by Bill Gates 1995

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4k+ ratings

🚀 Tech Futurism 🌐 Early Internet Predictions 🖥️ Personal Computing History ☀️ Techno-Optimism 💾 Software And Society

Generation AI

by Matt Britton • 2025

Generation Alpha breathes AI like oxygen. Their $5.5 trillion will rewrite every rule by 2030.

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🤖 Ai Transformation 🧒 Generational Change 💼 Future Of Work ⚖️ Ai Ethics 👨‍👩‍👧 Digital Parenting

Generation AI 95%

Generation Alpha breathes AI like oxygen. Their $5.5 trillion will rewrite every rule by 2030.

by Matt Britton 2025

3.60

72 ratings

🤖 Ai Transformation 🧒 Generational Change 💼 Future Of Work ⚖️ Ai Ethics 👨‍👩‍👧 Digital Parenting

The Industries of the Future

by Alec J. Ross • 2016

Robotics, genomics, code, and cyberwar: the next economy's winners and losers, mapped.

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🌐 Emerging Technologies 🤖 Labor Automation 💰 Digital Currencies 🛡️ Cyberwarfare 📊 Data Ethics

The Industries of the Future 95%

Robotics, genomics, code, and cyberwar: the next economy's winners and losers, mapped.

by Alec J. Ross 2016

3.96

8k+ ratings

🌐 Emerging Technologies 🤖 Labor Automation 💰 Digital Currencies 🛡️ Cyberwarfare 📊 Data Ethics

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab • 2016

Physical, digital, and biological tech are merging. Jobs, governments, and selves will be rewritten.

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🌀 Technological Disruption 🔧 Future Of Work 🏙️ Technology And Society 🤖 Ai And Automation 🔬 Emerging Technologies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Summary

The Fourth Industrial Revolution 95%

Physical, digital, and biological tech are merging. Jobs, governments, and selves will be rewritten.

by Klaus Schwab 2016

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5k+ ratings

🌀 Technological Disruption 🔧 Future Of Work 🏙️ Technology And Society 🤖 Ai And Automation 🔬 Emerging Technologies

The Second Machine Age

by Erik Brynjolfsson • 2014

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

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🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 AI And Society

The Second Machine Age 94%

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

by Erik Brynjolfsson 2014

3.91

12k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 AI And Society

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

by Peter H. Diamandis • 2020

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

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🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

The Future Is Faster Than You Think Summary

The Future Is Faster Than You Think 94%

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

by Peter H. Diamandis 2020

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5k+ ratings

🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

Read Write Own

by Chris Dixon • 2024

The architecture for internet networks no single company can control: ownership built into the code.

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🌐 Internet History 🔑 Digital Ownership 🪙 Token Economics 🔗 Network Effects ⛓️ Decentralization

Read Write Own 94%

The architecture for internet networks no single company can control: ownership built into the code.

by Chris Dixon 2024

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2k+ ratings

🌐 Internet History 🔑 Digital Ownership 🪙 Token Economics 🔗 Network Effects ⛓️ Decentralization

The Internet of Things

by Samuel Greengard • 2015

Connecting everything to the internet could add $33 trillion to the economy, and expose everything.

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542

🌐 Internet Of Things 🏭 Industry 4.0 🔄 Digital Transformation 🔒 Data Privacy 🏙️ Smart Cities

The Internet of Things 94%

Connecting everything to the internet could add $33 trillion to the economy, and expose everything.

by Samuel Greengard 2015

3.23

542 ratings

🌐 Internet Of Things 🏭 Industry 4.0 🔄 Digital Transformation 🔒 Data Privacy 🏙️ Smart Cities

by Michael Lewis • 2001

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

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🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

Next 94%

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

by Michael Lewis 2001

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2k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

Master Switch

by Tim Wu • 2010

Telephone, radio, film, TV: each began open and ended a monopoly. The internet is next.

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🏢 Media Monopolies 📜 Information History 🔄 Technological Cycles 🏛️ Corporate Consolidation ⚖️ Antitrust

Master Switch 94%

Telephone, radio, film, TV: each began open and ended a monopoly. The internet is next.

by Tim Wu 2010

3.89

8k+ ratings

🏢 Media Monopolies 📜 Information History 🔄 Technological Cycles 🏛️ Corporate Consolidation ⚖️ Antitrust

No Filter

by Sarah Frier • 2020

Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars, promised independence, then slowly took everything.

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🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Tech Startups 📸 Influencer Culture 📱 Social Media History 🏗️ Platform Capitalism

No Filter 94%

Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars, promised independence, then slowly took everything.

by Sarah Frier 2020

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11k+ ratings

🏙️ Silicon Valley 🚀 Tech Startups 📸 Influencer Culture 📱 Social Media History 🏗️ Platform Capitalism

What To Do When Machines Do Everything

by Malcolm Frank • 2017

12% of jobs vanish, 75% transform. AI's future is a build-out, not a takeover.

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⚙️ Digital Transformation 🏭 Industry 4.0 🤖 Ai In Business 🧑‍💻 Future Of Work 📊 Automation Economics

What To Do When Machines Do Everything Summary

What To Do When Machines Do Everything 94%

12% of jobs vanish, 75% transform. AI's future is a build-out, not a takeover.

by Malcolm Frank 2017

3.56

509 ratings

⚙️ Digital Transformation 🏭 Industry 4.0 🤖 Ai In Business 🧑‍💻 Future Of Work 📊 Automation Economics

Like, Comment, Subscribe

by Mark Bergen • 2022

Three PayPal coworkers built a dating site. It became the algorithm deciding what the world watches.

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💹 Platform Economics 🏢 Tech Company Histories 🤖 Algorithmic Influence 🛡️ Content Moderation 🎬 Creator Economy

Like, Comment, Subscribe 94%

Three PayPal coworkers built a dating site. It became the algorithm deciding what the world watches.

by Mark Bergen 2022

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1k+ ratings

💹 Platform Economics 🏢 Tech Company Histories 🤖 Algorithmic Influence 🛡️ Content Moderation 🎬 Creator Economy

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis • 2009

The internet's most successful company wrote a playbook, and it has nothing to do with search.

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🌐 Internet Business 🏗️ Platform Economics 🔓 Open Systems 👥 Crowd Wisdom 🆓 Freeconomics

What Would Google Do? 94%

The internet's most successful company wrote a playbook, and it has nothing to do with search.

by Jeff Jarvis 2009

3.87

11k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Business 🏗️ Platform Economics 🔓 Open Systems 👥 Crowd Wisdom 🆓 Freeconomics

The Nature of Technology

by W. Brian Arthur • 2009

Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Technology 💡 Innovation Theory 🌀 Complexity Science 🔄 Technology Evolution 🔗 Systems Thinking

The Nature of Technology 94%

Technology is nature harnessed, then endlessly recombined. Each invention fuels the next.

by W. Brian Arthur 2009

3.95

858 ratings

🏛️ Philosophy Of Technology 💡 Innovation Theory 🌀 Complexity Science 🔄 Technology Evolution 🔗 Systems Thinking

Digital Transformation

by Thomas M. Siebel • 2019

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

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🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

Digital Transformation 94%

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

by Thomas M. Siebel 2019

3.87

766 ratings

🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

Machine, Platform, Crowd

by Andrew McAfee • 2018

Machines outthink experts, platforms own customers, and outsiders solve what insiders cannot.

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🏢 Technology Strategy 🛒 Platform Economics 📈 Data-Driven Decisions 👥 Crowdsourcing 🤖 Automation And Jobs

Machine, Platform, Crowd 94%

Machines outthink experts, platforms own customers, and outsiders solve what insiders cannot.

by Andrew McAfee 2018

4.04

3k+ ratings

🏢 Technology Strategy 🛒 Platform Economics 📈 Data-Driven Decisions 👥 Crowdsourcing 🤖 Automation And Jobs

The Robots Are Coming!

by Andrés Oppenheimer • 2018

Factory workers lost their jobs to robots last decade. This decade, it's lawyers and accountants.

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🤖 Future Of Work 🏭 Technological Unemployment 📚 Lifelong Learning 💻 Education Technology 🏥 Healthcare Innovation

The Robots Are Coming! 94%

Factory workers lost their jobs to robots last decade. This decade, it's lawyers and accountants.

by Andrés Oppenheimer 2018

4.19

3k+ ratings

🤖 Future Of Work 🏭 Technological Unemployment 📚 Lifelong Learning 💻 Education Technology 🏥 Healthcare Innovation

Virtual Society

by Herman Narula • 2022

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

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🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Virtual Society 94%

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

by Herman Narula 2022

3.40

288 ratings

🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Power And Prediction

by Ajay Agrawal • 2022

AI works. Now the long, slow work of rebuilding everything around it begins.

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🤖 Ai In Business 🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Digital Transformation 📊 Predictive Analytics ⚡ Industry Disruption

Power And Prediction 94%

AI works. Now the long, slow work of rebuilding everything around it begins.

by Ajay Agrawal 2022

4.22

7k+ ratings

🤖 Ai In Business 🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Digital Transformation 📊 Predictive Analytics ⚡ Industry Disruption

You Are Not a Gadget

by Jaron Lanier • 2010

The internet reduces people to data points. The people who built it call that wisdom.

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6k+

🖥️ Digital Criticism 🧑‍💻 Tech Humanism 🤔 Technoskepticism 💼 Creative Economy ⚙️ Technological Determinism

You Are Not a Gadget 94%

The internet reduces people to data points. The people who built it call that wisdom.

by Jaron Lanier 2010

3.57

6k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Criticism 🧑‍💻 Tech Humanism 🤔 Technoskepticism 💼 Creative Economy ⚙️ Technological Determinism

WTF?

by Tim O'Reilly • 2017

The economy is now an algorithm, and nobody wrote human well-being into its code.

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🏗️ Platform Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Management 💼 Future Of Work 🌱 New Economics 🧠 Collective Intelligence

WTF? 94%

The economy is now an algorithm, and nobody wrote human well-being into its code.

by Tim O'Reilly 2017

4.08

2k+ ratings

🏗️ Platform Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Management 💼 Future Of Work 🌱 New Economics 🧠 Collective Intelligence

Invention and Innovation

by Vaclav Smil • 2023

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

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🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences 📊 Data-Driven History 🧭 Contrarian Analysis

Invention and Innovation 94%

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

by Vaclav Smil 2023

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1k+ ratings

🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences 📊 Data-Driven History 🧭 Contrarian Analysis

Grown Up Digital

by Don Tapscott • 2008

Eight traits of the internet generation are quietly remaking school, work, and government.

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📱 Digital Natives 🌐 Internet Society 🔄 Generational Shift 🎓 Education Reform 💼 Future Of Work

Grown Up Digital 94%

Eight traits of the internet generation are quietly remaking school, work, and government.

by Don Tapscott 2008

3.80

1k+ ratings

📱 Digital Natives 🌐 Internet Society 🔄 Generational Shift 🎓 Education Reform 💼 Future Of Work

Artificial Intelligence

by Lasse Rouhiainen • 2018

An AI 101: the tech, the jobs at risk, and the one skill machines can't touch.

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence 💻 Digital Transformation 🧠 Machine Learning ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work

Artificial Intelligence 94%

An AI 101: the tech, the jobs at risk, and the one skill machines can't touch.

by Lasse Rouhiainen 2018

3.92

314 ratings

🤖 Artificial Intelligence 💻 Digital Transformation 🧠 Machine Learning ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work

Competing in the Age of AI

by Marco Iansiti • 2020

AI dissolves the old limits of scale, scope, and learning, and demands a new corporate architecture.

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🤖 Ai Business Models 🏗️ Platform Strategy 🔗 Data Network Effects 🔄 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Competing in the Age of AI 94%

AI dissolves the old limits of scale, scope, and learning, and demands a new corporate architecture.

by Marco Iansiti 2020

3.82

1k+ ratings

🤖 Ai Business Models 🏗️ Platform Strategy 🔗 Data Network Effects 🔄 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Unscaled

by Hemant Taneja • 2018

Size used to win. Now AI lets lean companies rent what big corporations had to build.

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331

🏗️ Platform Economics 🚀 Startup Playbooks 📊 Data-Driven Business 🎯 Micro-Markets 💥 Disruption Theory

Unscaled 94%

Size used to win. Now AI lets lean companies rent what big corporations had to build.

by Hemant Taneja 2018

3.86

331 ratings

🏗️ Platform Economics 🚀 Startup Playbooks 📊 Data-Driven Business 🎯 Micro-Markets 💥 Disruption Theory

The New Digital Age

by Eric Schmidt • 2013

Five billion new internet users will change war, privacy, and revolution forever.

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🌐 Internet Geopolitics 🔮 Digital Futures ⚔️ Cyber Conflict 👁️ Privacy And Surveillance 🏛️ State And Cyberspace

The New Digital Age 94%

Five billion new internet users will change war, privacy, and revolution forever.

by Eric Schmidt 2013

3.33

3k+ ratings

🌐 Internet Geopolitics 🔮 Digital Futures ⚔️ Cyber Conflict 👁️ Privacy And Surveillance 🏛️ State And Cyberspace

The People Vs Tech

by Jamie Bartlett • 2018

Liberal democracy rests on a few fragile pillars; the internet is dismantling every one.

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🗳️ Digital Politics 🏛️ Tech Monopolies 🎭 Political Tribalism 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🤖 Ai And Society

The People Vs Tech 94%

Liberal democracy rests on a few fragile pillars; the internet is dismantling every one.

by Jamie Bartlett 2018

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2k+ ratings

🗳️ Digital Politics 🏛️ Tech Monopolies 🎭 Political Tribalism 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🤖 Ai And Society

Digital to the Core

by Mark Raskino • 2015

Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.

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🖥️ Digital Transformation 🔄 Organizational Change 🧭 Digital Leadership ⚡ Disruptive Technology 📊 Data Strategy

Digital to the Core 94%

Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.

by Mark Raskino 2015

3.81

242 ratings

🖥️ Digital Transformation 🔄 Organizational Change 🧭 Digital Leadership ⚡ Disruptive Technology 📊 Data Strategy

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power

by Rajiv Malhotra • 2021

Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.

4.28

217

🌍 Ai Geopolitics 🛡️ Digital Sovereignty 🏭 Job Displacement 📱 Digital Addiction 💰 Surveillance Capitalism

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power Summary

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power 94%

Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.

by Rajiv Malhotra 2021

4.28

217 ratings

🌍 Ai Geopolitics 🛡️ Digital Sovereignty 🏭 Job Displacement 📱 Digital Addiction 💰 Surveillance Capitalism

Powershift

by Alvin Toffler • 1990

Information rewrites power itself: who holds it, how it flows, and why old hierarchies collapse.

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🧠 Knowledge Economy ⚡ Power Dynamics 🔄 Organizational Change 🔮 Futurology 📡 Information Warfare

Powershift 94%

Information rewrites power itself: who holds it, how it flows, and why old hierarchies collapse.

by Alvin Toffler 1990

4.00

1k+ ratings

🧠 Knowledge Economy ⚡ Power Dynamics 🔄 Organizational Change 🔮 Futurology 📡 Information Warfare

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier • 2013

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

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💻 Digital Economy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization

Who Owns the Future? 94%

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

by Jaron Lanier 2013

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4k+ ratings

💻 Digital Economy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization

Move Fast and Break Things

by Jonathan Taplin • 2017

How three digital monopolies gutted music and news, and why democracy is their next casualty.

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Move Fast and Break Things 94%

How three digital monopolies gutted music and news, and why democracy is their next casualty.

by Jonathan Taplin 2017

3.59

2k+ ratings

Don't Be Evil

by Rana Foroohar • 2019

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

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🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy

Don't Be Evil 93%

The internet promised openness. What arrived was surveillance, addiction, and monopoly.

by Rana Foroohar 2019

3.85

1k+ ratings

🏢 Big Tech Critique 🔒 Data Privacy 🧠 Attention Economy ⚖️ Tech Monopolies 💼 Gig Economy

Tools and Weapons

by Brad Smith • 2019

Tech weaponized your data, your vote, your face. An insider's plan to take them back.

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🏛️ Tech Policy 🔒 Privacy Rights 🛡️ Cybersecurity 🤖 Ai Ethics 🌐 Digital Divide

Tools and Weapons 93%

Tech weaponized your data, your vote, your face. An insider's plan to take them back.

by Brad Smith 2019

3.85

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Tech Policy 🔒 Privacy Rights 🛡️ Cybersecurity 🤖 Ai Ethics 🌐 Digital Divide

Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler • 1970

Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.

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⚡ Technological Change 🔮 Futurism 📥 Information Overload 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🗑️ Throwaway Culture

Future Shock 93%

Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.

by Alvin Toffler 1970

3.82

5k+ ratings

⚡ Technological Change 🔮 Futurism 📥 Information Overload 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🗑️ Throwaway Culture

The Future of the Professions

by Richard Susskind • 2015

The professions were built on a trade: exclusive knowledge for public trust. That trade is ending.

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💼 Professional Services 🔮 Future Of Work ⚡ Technology Disruption 🧠 Knowledge Economics 🤖 Automation

The Future of the Professions 93%

The professions were built on a trade: exclusive knowledge for public trust. That trade is ending.

by Richard Susskind 2015

3.64

1k+ ratings

💼 Professional Services 🔮 Future Of Work ⚡ Technology Disruption 🧠 Knowledge Economics 🤖 Automation

Program or Be Programmed

by Douglas Rushkoff • 2010

Digital tools have biases. If you can't read their code, someone else writes your behavior.

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🌐 Media Ecology ⚖️ Technological Bias 🎮 Digital Agency ⏰ Attention Economy 💻 Code Literacy

Program or Be Programmed 93%

Digital tools have biases. If you can't read their code, someone else writes your behavior.

by Douglas Rushkoff 2010

3.72

2k+ ratings

🌐 Media Ecology ⚖️ Technological Bias 🎮 Digital Agency ⏰ Attention Economy 💻 Code Literacy

Radical Technologies

by Adam Greenfield • 2017

Eight technologies that run your day: the invisible tradeoffs reshaping power, work, and identity.

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⚡ Tech Criticism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology 🤖 Automation Anxiety 🖨️ Digital Fabrication

Radical Technologies 93%

Eight technologies that run your day: the invisible tradeoffs reshaping power, work, and identity.

by Adam Greenfield 2017

4.02

1k+ ratings

⚡ Tech Criticism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology 🤖 Automation Anxiety 🖨️ Digital Fabrication

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

by Tim Harford • 2017

Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.

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📜 Economic History 💡 Innovation Economics 🔧 Technological History 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🌪️ Creative Destruction

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy Summary

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy 93%

Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.

by Tim Harford 2017

4.06

4k+ ratings

📜 Economic History 💡 Innovation Economics 🔧 Technological History 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🌪️ Creative Destruction

The Square and the Tower

by Niall Ferguson • 2017

The real shapers of history were not kings but the networks connecting everyone else.

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🌍 World History 💰 Economic History 📜 Big History 🕸️ Network Science 👥 Social Networks

The Square and the Tower 93%

The real shapers of history were not kings but the networks connecting everyone else.

by Niall Ferguson 2017

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🌍 World History 💰 Economic History 📜 Big History 🕸️ Network Science 👥 Social Networks

Eat People

by Andy Kessler • 2011

Find what gets cheaper every year, waste it prodigiously, and let the market eat the rest.

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Find what gets cheaper every year, waste it prodigiously, and let the market eat the rest.

by Andy Kessler 2011

3.63

393 ratings

🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 💥 Creative Destruction 🏛️ Austrian Economics 🖥️ Platform Economics 📉 Zero Marginal Cost

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