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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...

Strange New Thoughts, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

The first comprehensive history of the background, origins, and philosophical evolution of the Tech Right—the movement blending Silicon Valley futurism with reactionary politics that is now reshaping power in the US and beyond The alignment of Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel and Elon...

From a leading Harvard AI safety expert, an explosive vision, drawn from emerging new research, of the terrifyingly short road to cognitive diminishment, as humans have begun to be caught in the flywheel of domestication. This is not a book about AI. This is a book about the human mind in the...

A brilliant and important reckoning with the seismic shocks on our economy, our politics, and our society from the collapse of skilled work at a scale that has no historical precedent We have never been here before. Analogies to industrialization, or electrification, or the internet, are fine...

A completely original explanation for the inevitable rise of artificial intelligence—and a deeply human survival strategy grounded in four billion years of evolution. "The best-case scenario," an AI expert told D. Scott Phoenix, "is that an AI-related accident kills 50 to 100 million people in...

An insider’s gripping account of how today’s AI gold rush was driven by the biggest theft of creative work the world has ever seen. The Intelligence Heist tells the riveting story of how the world’s creative work was stolen to power the rise of artificial intelligence. Building AI systems...

New York Times bestselling author Matt Ridley’s brilliant follow-up to The Rational Optimist, exploring how and why we are squandering our potential for progress with bureaucracy and bad policy, and how we can use innovation and ingenuity to move forward at a time when so much is possible. It...

A groundbreaking archeologist offers a bottom-up perspective on humankind through the essential materials that have shaped our lives—from the wood and soil that built civilization to the plastic and concrete that threaten to destroy it. “What we think and say may turn out to be less telling...

A reflection on how to listen and pay attention amid the constant noise that saturates our public and private lives. From podcasts sounding through earbuds to talk shows blaring from televisions, from the continuous stream of social media on our phones to doctors’ waiting rooms with pumped-in...

You can't separate marketing, product, and AI anymore—The Algorithmic Shopper will help you win the next era. Marketing has always relied on human psychology—now that trillion-dollar ecosystem is becoming obsolete. For over a century, companies have tirelessly studied our aspirations and our...

A leading technology expert presents your guide to the next 25 years with a sweeping grand narrative about America’s current reinvention—one that makes the most of artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies and builds a world of abundance that works better for all. The...

“This may be the most important book written about technology, human flourishing, and what we need to protect to become fully ourselves.” —Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A sobering look at how digital life is eroding our thinking, our freedom, and...

How history’s most infamous disasters shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering When a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone so...

Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Big Tech Dynasties reckons with the place of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in modern life. It argues that while each company may be a product of platform capitalism, each is also historically familiar; Big Tech is familiar because...

A Washington and tech insider rings the alarm about America's misguided approach to reindustrialization and calls for a new solution: "leapfrog innovation." The United States once defined the future of technology and manufacturing. Today, we have been leapfrogged by China. Our response has been...

From award-winning and bestselling science journalist Angela Saini, comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics and society at large. ‘One of the world’s best science writers’ Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An...

A riveting narrative account of how prediction markets are changing our world and transforming the very nature of democracy. “In The Big Bet, Michael Auerbach explores the past, present, and future of the prediction market ... This is a dazzling and entertaining book ... But it is also an...

When Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering architect of artificial neural networks, resigned from Google in 2023 following an epiphany about the dangers of artificial intelligence, it made headlines around the world. Smarter Than Us is his long-awaited call to arms. As he shows, only by fully...

The Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” explains why the machines he helped create may soon surpass us—and what humanity can still do to shape the future. Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. For more than half a century, he has sought to...