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A surreal, empathetic journey into the physical places where the digital economy actually lives and breathes. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Blockchain Chicken Farm.
- surreal
- grounded
- intellectually expansive
- cyberpunk-adjacent
- 01
Abolish Silicon Valley
Wendy Liu
A heartfelt memoir meets a radical manifesto that dismantles the myth of the tech industry's growth-at-all-costs ethos.
- 02
The Glass Cage
Nicholas Carr
A thoughtful, cautionary exploration of how our increasing reliance on automation and screens is quietly reshaping the human experience.
- 03
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
A monumental, dread-inducing masterclass that provides the exact vocabulary needed to understand how the digital world is strip-mining human autonomy.
- 04
The Attention Merchants
Tim Wu
A revelatory, slightly unsettling journey through the history of how our focus became the world's most valuable commodity.
- 05
Machines of loving grace
John Markoff
A sweeping, journalistic exploration of the ethical tightrope between human agency and artificial intelligence.
- 06
Money
Jacob Goldstein (Cohost of Planet Money podcast)
A witty, globe-trotting tour through the collective hallucination that makes the modern world go round.
- 07
Coders
Clive Thompson
An immersive, anthropological deep-dive into the minds and culture of the people quietly engineering our modern reality.
- 08
China in ten words
Yu Hua
A revealing exploration of a rapidly changing society, unlocked through the everyday words of its people.
- 09
Digital gold
Nathaniel Popper
A globe-trotting, character-driven deep dive into the chaotic frontier of decentralized money and the eccentric visionaries who built it.
- 10
Bitcoin Billionaires
Ben Mezrich
A cinematic, high-stakes ride through the Wild West of early crypto, fueled by a relentless quest for ultimate vindication.
- 11
Voices from the Valley
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel
An unfiltered, ground-level exploration of the human labor and stark contradictions hiding behind Silicon Valley's polished utopian hype.
- 12
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
A sharp, validating wake-up call that pulls back the curtain on the biases baked into our everyday digital lives.
