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A chilling, deeply researched unmasking of the internet's military origins and the inescapable surveillance woven into modern technology. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Surveillance Valley.
- paranoid
- chilling
- unsettling
- eye-opening
- 01
The perfect weapon
David E. Sanger
A gripping, sobering plunge into the invisible wars being waged across our digital networks every single day.
- 02
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.
- 03
Data and Goliath
Bruce Schneier
A sobering, meticulously documented wake-up call about the invisible webs of surveillance that track our every digital and physical move.
- 04
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.
- 05
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen
A gripping, real-life sci-fi thriller that pulls back the curtain on the shadowy intersection of cutting-edge science and military supremacy.
- 06
Cult of the Dead Cow
Joseph Menn
A thrilling, clandestine ride through the underground origins of hacktivism and the digital rebels who shaped the modern internet.
- 07
Dark territory
Fred M. Kaplan
A gripping, shadowy tour through the classified corridors where the rules of digital warfare were quietly written.
- 08
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
A chilling, thriller-paced descent into the invisible digital arms race that threatens global security.
- 09
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter
A gripping, real-life techno-thriller that unspools the terrifying dawn of digital warfare.
- 10
LikeWar
Peter Warren Singer
A chilling, fast-paced tour through the modern digital battlefield where your smartphone is the ultimate weapon of mass manipulation.
- 11
The Master Switch
Tim Wu
A sweeping, cautionary journey through the history of media that reveals how every open frontier of communication eventually falls to corporate empires.
- 12
How not to network a nation
Benjamin Peters
A fascinating, ironic exploration of how bureaucratic infighting suffocated a technological utopia.
