The Dark Side of Technology (nonfiction)

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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,963 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating — 32,241 ratings
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World 4.16 avg rating — 180,916 ratings
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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech 4.15 avg rating — 440 ratings
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When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,315 ratings
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us 3.75 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 3.85 avg rating — 20,392 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other 3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds 3.73 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment
Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment 3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,434 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,690 ratings
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 3.89 avg rating — 3,800 ratings
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy 3.59 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With 3.79 avg rating — 367 ratings
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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave 4.07 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by: Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings
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Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives
Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives 3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,326 ratings
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age 3.81 avg rating — 5,083 ratings
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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America 3.92 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
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The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It 3.74 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children
Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,766 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor 4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future 3.56 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War 3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats 4.03 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire 4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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The Art of Cyber Conflict
The Art of Cyber Conflict 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech 3.62 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked 3.85 avg rating — 12,531 ratings
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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts 3.73 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse
The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse 3.96 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut 3.71 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld 3.64 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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The Monsters of Education Technology
The Monsters of Education Technology 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch
The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch 3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity 3.56 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power 4.08 avg rating — 6,183 ratings
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,659 ratings
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The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society 3.87 avg rating — 23,866 ratings
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Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA
Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century 3.97 avg rating — 2,592 ratings
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Checking Out: How Searching More and Checking Less Can Save You From Your Smartphone
Checking Out: How Searching More and Checking Less Can Save You From Your Smartphone 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Future Crimes
Future Crimes 3.93 avg rating — 4,365 ratings
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism 3.67 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection 3.64 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe 3.70 avg rating — 3,226 ratings
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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information 3.74 avg rating — 319 ratings
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You Are Not a Gadget
You Are Not a Gadget 3.57 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload 3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Who Owns the Future?
Who Owns the Future? 3.77 avg rating — 3,632 ratings
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Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World 3.71 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age
Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age 3.59 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom 3.68 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart 3.86 avg rating — 35,862 ratings
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The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting A New Age of Threat
The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting A New Age of Threat 3.41 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity 3.85 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath 3.71 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations 3.52 avg rating — 320 ratings
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CyberSense: The 7 Steps to Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
CyberSense: The 7 Steps to Keeping Your Kids Safe Online 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral
Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Team Human
Team Human 3.83 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Autonomous military robotics: Risk, ethics, and design
Autonomous military robotics: Risk, ethics, and design 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity
#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage 3.97 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker 3.96 avg rating — 26,864 ratings
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How Not to Be Hacked
How Not to Be Hacked 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future 4.04 avg rating — 2,680 ratings
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Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for a Media-Fueled World
Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for a Media-Fueled World 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain
Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain 3.80 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Living in the State of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People With Disabilities
Living in the State of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People With Disabilities 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation 3.74 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins 3.82 avg rating — 785 ratings
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iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives
iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives 3.69 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Sources: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity While Braving the Technological Wilderness
Sources: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity While Braving the Technological Wilderness 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future 3.89 avg rating — 11,884 ratings
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Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest 4.09 avg rating — 951 ratings