Book reviews, commentary, rants. An attempt to inject a tiny bit of healthy skepticism into a blogosphere saturated with techno-worship.
Written by Kevin Arthur in San Jose, CA.
Contents copyright 2005-2008.
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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
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
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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Francis Fukuyama: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
David M. Levy: Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
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
Edwin Black: War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
Edward Tenner: Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
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