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Tools and the Development of Contemporary Society

Our Digital World

The Hype Machine
Sinan Aral
It’s Complicated
Danah Boyd
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Hello World
Hannah Fry
The book cover of Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy's 'Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin', with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Putin
Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
BOOK REPORT
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
BOOK REPORT
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
Artificial Intelligence
Melanie Mitchell
Social Media and the Public Interest
Philip M. Napoli
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
LikeWar
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
BOOK REPORT

Evolutionary Perspective

The Axemaker’s Gift
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
BOOK REPORT
Connections 1
James Burke
The Day the Universe Changed
James Burke
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
BOOK REPORT
Collapse
Jared Diamond
Nomads of the Long Bow
Allan R. Holmberg
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
BOOK REPORT
1493
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
1491
Charles C. Mann
BOOK REPORT
Sir Dudley North on Discourses Upon Trade, 1691
Sir Dudley North
The Right Mind
Robert Ornstein
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
BOOK REPORT
Learning How to Learn
Idries Shah
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
BOOK REPORT
The Double Helix
James D. Watson
The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu