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John De Graaf: Affluenza : The All-Consuming Epidemic (2nd Edition)
Steven E. Jones: Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism
Naomi S. Baron: Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Richard C. Lewontin: Biology As Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Bryan Appleyard: Brave New Worlds : Staying Human in the Genetic Future
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
Paulina Borsook: Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech
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Steve Talbott: Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
Maggie Jackson: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
David Suzuki and Holly Dressel: From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global EcoCrisis
Bob Seidensticker: Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change
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Pete Shanks: Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed
Thomas P. Hughes: Human-Built World : How to Think about Technology and Culture
Carl Honore: In Praise of Slowness : Challenging the Cult of Speed
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Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods : Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Sherry Turkle: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Robert O'Harrow: No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society
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Hubert Dreyfus: On the Internet, Second Edition (Thinking in Action)
Francis Fukuyama: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
David M. Levy: Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
Neil Postman: Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Andrew Keen: The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture
Todd Oppenheimer: The Flickering Mind : Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
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Harry Collins: The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology
Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
David Edgerton: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
Langdon Winner: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
Sven Birkerts (ed.): Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse
Bryan Appleyard: Understanding the Present : An Alternative History of Science
Edward Tenner: Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
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Sorry if it seems like book promotion week here (though it is the start of TV Turnoff Week, so perhaps it's appropriate). Here's another new book that I'm really excited about:
Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Bob Seidensticker. I've just read parts of it so far, but it looks like exactly the kind of level-headed skepticism we need more of.
There's a website for the book with excerpts and more information: www.future-hype.com.
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The SL4 mailing list at http://www.sl4.org/archive/0604/14538.html has a long and interesting Future Hype thread of discussion.
Posted by: mindmaker | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 11:22 AM
Thanks for the pointer -- it's interesting reading!
Posted by: Kevin | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 01:06 PM