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A guide to the world’s most delightful, useful, and useless information (and how it came to exist)—a hilarious and insightful book for fans of Randall Munroe’s WHAT IF?, from the creator of @depthsofwikipedia Wikipedia is a splendidly extensive record of everything that matters, and also...

The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Über den Platz des Menschen in der heutigen Welt. Weil er über einen Geist verfügt, konnte der Mensch bis vor kurzem glauben, etwas Besonderes zu sein. Dann kam die Künstliche Intelligenz. Dass sie viele Aufgaben besser löst als wir, war für die Menschheit Versprechen und Kränkung zugleich: Das wäre dann die Vierte seit der kopernikanischen Wende, Darwins Evolutionstheorie und Freuds Entdeckung des Unbewussten. Haben sich die Ideen des Humanismus überlebt?

Against Convenience has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

A new tech cold war has already begun, and America is losing its edge. Technology has always driven geopolitical competition. For decades, the US set the rules on innovation, standards, and export regulations, using soft power and federal funding to both develop cutting edge tech and prevent its...

A rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity’s changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses. The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and...

An eye-opening examination into a chilling paradox: our hunger for security—from border walls to video doorbells—is making us less safe and weakening democracies worldwide, for readers of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff How much are you willing to give up to feel safe? Ruben Andersson argues...

From the author of Growth, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024, a guide for helping the next generation through an educational world, and a job market, forever changed by AI – as well as for anyone navigating the upheaval in today’s workplace We live at an extraordinary...

An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share our lives. We once archived our experiences in photo albums, and now we capture our...

New York Times bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provides a glimpse of a promising future that is quickly approaching: a world with cures for chronic illnesses and cancers. While traditional drugs mostly help us manage the effects of disease, cell therapies promise...

From New York Times bestselling author Dana Suskind, a timely, urgent guide to parenting in the age of artificial intelligence—and protecting what matters most in childhood As AI enters nurseries, playrooms, and classrooms, parents are being sold a “smart” childhood at every turn. This...

An industrial designer and former Global Creative Director at Nike delivers a sharp critique of the consequences of a world built by and for men, and offers an optimistic look at how we might build a better world for us all. Women and men inhabit the same world, yet it does not suit them both...

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence that argues this revolution will challenge us spiritually and could restore a missing ingredient in modern life—our sense of purpose. The God Test is the first book that sees...

Melanie Mitchell separa la ciencia real de la ciencia ficción en este amplio examen del estado actual de la inteligencia artificial y de cómo está rehaciendo nuestro mundo. Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagantes promesas y...

The unknown history of the GPS, created as a military technology for accurate bombing during wartime, now turned daily necessity that impacts all matters economic, social, and cultural. Little Blue Dot uncovers the GPS’s origins in the air battles of World War II, following along as its military uses expanded and shapeshifted to become part of the fabric of modern life.

With just five simple habits, you can shape an environment where your kids grow confident, resilient, and ready to face the challenges, dangers, and opportunities of an ever-changing online world. Childhood today looks very different than it used to. Smartphones and social media shape how kids...

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true? It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught...

By one of San Francisco’s foremost chroniclers, the story of the city’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its boom nearly engineered its collapse. At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was a...

In Harnessing Disruption, Sarah E. Kreps—a national security expert and military veteran—offers a fresh, clear-eyed framework for understanding the social and political dynamics that shape technological change. From nuclear weapons to AI, cryptocurrency, and social media, breakthrough innovations rarely arrive without backlash. Disruption is not collapse. History shows it is part of a recurring pattern.

Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word “drone” fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what’s coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture.