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| 1. |  | The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology from Viking Price: $11.68 Customer Review:  One of the most influential books I've ever read. Extremely well researched and very clearly written. I look at the next 20-30 years quite differently now as a result of reading this book. |
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| 2. |  | Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition from Free Press Price: $33.25 Customer Review: Rogers wrote the book on DoI. It's academic and accessible, and also written from an overall perspective. I specially liked the exhaustive literature review - it's like a study of the diffusion of diffusion studies. It's written by a person with genuine intellectual depth and based on decades of... |
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| 3. |  | The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World from Cambridge University Press Price: $19.79 Customer Review: Probably the most important book ever to be written on the environment, this is a tour de force, a brilliant work, and a masterpiece of careful analysis. The author is a former member of Greenpeace who originally intended to prove the environment was getting worse over time. Much to his surprise,... |
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| 4. |  | Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age from Prometheus Books Price: $17.15 Customer Review:  This is a deeply disappointing book. The author never gets beyond a "Sunday supplement" level of analysis. There's little careful reasoning or linear argument here. The writing demonstrates the very problems railed against in the book. Most issues are represented by a relatively short anecdote; each... |
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| 5. | [no image] | Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology from Knopf Customer Review:  Neil Postman was, apparently, a big deal. Upon starting his 1992 book Technopoly I learned that he had died in 2003, which makes the negative parts of this review feel vaguely like I'm speaking ill of the dead. Sorry, Mr. Postman. Anyway, Technopoly takes the idea behind Aldous Huxley's... |
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| 6. |  | Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human from Broadway Price: $10.85 Customer Review:  Human Nature...will it be the same tomorrow as it is today? Don't bet on it--especially after reading this book. It's all about how GRIN technologies--Genetics, Robotics, Information and Nano Processes--are fundamentally changing the rules of the game in terms of human change and evolution--how... |
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| 7. |  | The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values from Broadway Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  The author mix culture with the culture industry. It's not the same and the Internet is doing quite a lot for distributing culture to more people. There're are people who hasn't the access the author has to books and records. I recommend the fellow to travel. His vision of the newspaper... |
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| 8. | [no image] | Society and Technological Change from Worth Pub Customer Review: This is not a good book at all. It has some good information in it but, it is hard to stay interested in the topic because the author uses too many descriptive words instead of just getting to the point. This makes it hard to stay focused on the subject and makes the book very boring. |
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| 9. |  | Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This is the best book I have ever read on the origins of the Internet. It doesnt matter if you are computer iliterate, if you are an expert or if you just know the basics... This book will blow your mind... |
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| 10. |  | Massive Change from Phaidon Press Price: $19.77 Customer Review: Excellent vision and unhappy scenarios are show us. How could we do this? It's time to change! Robson Quinello |
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| 11. |  | Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies from Princeton University Press Price: $23.10 Customer Review: This was a very good look at the complexities of modern technology although the analysis and conclusions could be just as valid for any complex system. The issue I see with the book is that the information seems to be dated. There are a number of places where the author draws conclusions based on a... |
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| 12. |  | Future Shock from Bantam Price: $7.99 Customer Review: One of Toffler's early works, it is a classic, and will never be obselete. It is a must read. Toffler identified issues of change and how change affects every aspect of society. It is a must read for anyone interested in Sociology or Economics. He also writes in a style that is interesting and... |
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| 13. |  | Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate from Princeton University Press Price: $24.95 Customer Review: very technical but very informative. Provides an interesting perspective on the emergence of excess greenhouse gases |
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| 14. |  | Next: The Future Just Happened from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $19.16 Customer Review: The first section of the Michael Lewis book "Next" is an extremely interesting story about Jonathan Lebed, a kid who basically found a loophole in the SEC's rules about what is right and wrong when it comes to stock manipulation. You see, Jonathan found out that he could buy a stock cheap and then... |
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| 15. |  | As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth from Three Rivers Press Price: $11.16 Customer Review: an excellent book, made memorable by an extraordinarily creative use of varying type style and size |
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| 16. |  | The Rise of the Network Society (New Edition) (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Volume 1) (Vol 1) from Wiley-Blackwell Price: $27.32 Customer Review: Definitely, Castells does not fall into the omnipresent ethnocentricity that most of the literature evaluating world trends does. He picks evidence from almost everywhere to support his arguments in an effort to explain the emergence of informationalism and its consequences. It is "a must-read" to... |
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| 17. |  | Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution from Basic Books Customer Review: When this book was published, I was in 8th grade and 100mb zip drives were the hottest technology to enter my school. This book was written Facebook was invented, before wikipedia became important, and while 'wireless internet' was still a geek fantasy. Upon seeing the publication date, I wondered... |
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| 18. |  | Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series) from Pine Forge Press Price: $35.96 | |
| 19. | [no image] | In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations from Random House, Inc. Customer Review: So far, I have found this book to be extremely educational and informative. It has helped me look at our current world of technology in a different light. Technology might not always be what it is cracked up to be. |
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| 20. |  | Being Digital from Knopf Customer Review: I read this book, partly based on the implied challenge of one of my professors. After finishing it, I can only say I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it. For starters, you can't blame Negroponte for the dated material in the book. After all, it was published in 1995. One of the things I... |
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