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An urgent, persuasive manifesto on how adapting our oldest public institutions to the digital age is vital for democracy. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with BiblioTech.
- civic-minded
- thought-provoking
- determined
- 01
Library
Matthew Battles
A sweeping, novelistic journey through the triumphs and tragedies of human knowledge, celebrating the institutions that preserve our history while mourning those we have lost.
- 02
Democratizing innovation
Eric von Hippel
An intellectually empowering exploration of how everyday users are quietly taking the reins of global innovation.
- 03
Libraries of the future
J. C. R. Licklider
A retro-futuristic blueprint of the digital age, mapping the internet decades before it existed.
- 04
What technology wants
Kevin Kelly
A sweeping, optimistic reframing of technology as a living, evolving force deeply intertwined with human destiny.
- 05
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
A visionary roadmap to the next three decades of technological evolution and societal transformation.
- 06
You are not a gadget
Jaron Lanier
A passionate, eccentric plea to reclaim your humanity from the flattening algorithms of the modern web.
- 07
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
A dizzying, urgent roadmap to the exponential technological shifts about to reinvent our daily lives.
- 08
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
A sweeping, data-driven glimpse into a rapidly approaching future where human ingenuity and artificial intelligence collide.
- 09
The Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser
An eye-opening and slightly unsettling journey into the invisible algorithmic walls shaping our digital reality.
- 10
Future perfect
Steven Johnson
An optimistic, intellectually stimulating exploration of how networked thinking can solve society's most gridlocked problems.
- 11
Big data, little data, no data
Christine L. Borgman
A rigorous, thought-provoking exploration of the invisible infrastructures that shape how we create, value, and share knowledge.
- 12
Here comes everybody
Clay Shirky · 2008
An eye-opening, anecdote-rich exploration of how digital networks have fundamentally rewired our capacity to cooperate and organize.
