Society: Technology

Nathaniel Hawthorne's notion of the "Unpardonable Sin" is when a society's technology advances faster than their moral understanding of that technology. We are living in the era of Hawthorne's Unpardonable Sin.
Everybody Lies

Dey Street Books

Everybody Lies

$16.99
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Picador

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

$20.00
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Doubleday

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

$28.00
Future Histories

Verso

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

$27.95
Future Primitive Revisited

Feral House

Future Primitive Revisited

$15.00
The Grid

Bloomsbury

Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

$18.00
Habeas Data

Melville House Books

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech

$27.99
Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

Verso

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

$29.95
A History of Fake Things on the Internet

Stanford University Press

History of Fake Things on the Internet

$28.00
How To Fix The Future

Grove Press

How to Fix the Future

$17.00
iGen

Atria

iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

$18.00
Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Verso

Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

$19.95