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A thrilling history of how we fell in and out of love with a technology that changed not just the world, but changed us. 'Forces you to see the world with new eyes . . . I loved it!' – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen and Eleanor 'Science and technology never seem more exciting than when James...

Landlords are using software to band together and organise artificial rent hikes. Uber is spiking the price of rides when your phone's about to die. And without drivers' knowledge, car companies are installing software that reports your driving behaviour to insurance companies, so they can...

A guide to protecting your strategic thinking skills against an overreliance on automated thinking and AI by a Thinkers50 expert on leadership in the age of AI. When was the last time you really thought something through, all the way to the end, by yourself? For decades, we've been quietly...

Artificial Intelligence has been a futurist dream for decades but today has finally come of age as the many barriers to its implementation have been overcome. This “new technology” has been at least 80 years in the making and suffered its fair share of disappointments as progress failed to...

A story of Silicon Valley dreams and hubris--and the gap between so-called visionary thinking and its effects on our lives. The Time Lords tells the story of how Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a secretive group of San Francisco tech founders have committed over two decades and $42 million...

A critical reexamination of techno-optimism’s empty promises, and how the lessons of the past can help us regain control of our future. For thirty years, Silicon Valley leaders have promised dramatic technological innovation as long as we—the public, journalists, regulators, 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...

Seeing fairness through a computational lens More and more of the decisions that shape our lives are driven by algorithms: what healthcare we receive, what loans we are offered, whom we date, the news we read, the schools we attend, and the jobs we get. These systems do not merely assist human...

An authoritative examination of the impact of AI on financial markets, from the author of the investing classic Engines That Move Markets. Artificial Intelligence has been a futurist dream for decades, but today it has finally come of age as the many barriers to its implementation have been...

From Cell Phones to Smart Homes: The Hidden Health Costs of Our Wireless World

A must-listen new guide from the author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures...

A clear-eyed examination of why modern media lost public trust—and what it will take to earn it back. Social networks tore apart a media industry that had taken two hundred years to build, swapping broadsheets and broadcasts for algorithms and addiction feeds. Now what? The media is in chaos...

The stories of America’s unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology. The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstated. In Queens of Code, author and one of the female pioneers of computer science Eileen...

A groundbreaking, provocative, and immersive investigation into the porn industry, from its golden age to its hidden global present—a story of sex, surveillance, deep data, and dirty money in the attention economy. This program is read by the author. We live in a world where more people have...

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...

From two former White House officials who shaped America’s AI strategy and now work with leading AI companies, an urgent case for why democracies must achieve preeminence in AI—and a bracing warning about what victory will require. “Essential reading for understanding how AI will impact...

From the bestselling author of Chaos and The Information, a sweeping history of the instrument that created modern life. This program is read by award-winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini, called "a master in his field" (The New York Times) and "in a class by himself" (Oprah Daily). In 1876...

From the bestselling author of How Economics Shape Our World, a brisk history of how innovation is cultivated and its influence on everything from art to AI Scientists, economists, and historians are always looking into the past in order make informed decisions about how to improve our future...

“A rich history” (Esquire UK) of writing, thought, and culture through the story of the pen and its integral role in shaping our lives into the twenty-first century—from New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield “A paean to the pen—glorious and golden.”—Emma Thompson...

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us? We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists and creators … yet they can also...