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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Smart mobs Smart mobs Howard Rheingold From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the wide… OL15839936W
Too Big to Know Too Big to Know David Weinberger We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ev… OL16501593W
Trillions Trillions Peter Lucas "The ultimate guide to prepare for--and prosper in--the next technology waveRevealing the fragility of current technology solutions--such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the Cloud--when co… OL16585797W
The Mobile Wave The Mobile Wave Michael Saylor In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelli… OL16806974W
The misinformation age The misinformation age Cailin O'Connor Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and J… OL18543778W
To renew America To renew America Newt Gingrich Many people in government and the media tried to stop the publication of this book so that you could not read it. But now you can. On November 9, 1994, for the first time in forty years, the Republic… OL1868235W
Against the Machine Against the Machine Lee Siegel From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes… OL1930888W
The 4th revolution The 4th revolution Luciano Floridi "Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new ch… OL19664958W
Dot complicated Dot complicated Randi Zuckerberg From Randi Zuckerberg, social media and technology expert and former marketing executive at Facebook, comes a guide to understanding social media and technology and how they influence our lives onlin… OL19973658W
One Market Under God One Market Under God Thomas Frank Examines the attempts made in the 1990s to infuse free-market ideology with claims of democracy, resulting in something called market populism. Driven by the economy's irrational exuberance, market… OL2668554W
The Virtual Self The Virtual Self Ben Agger The Virtual Self is an engaging and exciting text that addresses issues relating to our rapidly changing society, social structure, and communication needs. In doing so, it addresses major issues in … OL2712526W
Hackers & painters Hackers & painters Graham, Paul "The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from … OL2973119W
From counterculture to cyberculture From counterculture to cyberculture Fred Turner In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… OL3272110W
E-commerce E-commerce Carol Traver,Carol Guercio Traver,Carol G. Traver,Kenneth C. Laudon In the 14 years since it began in 1995, electronic commerce has grown in the United States from a standing start to a $228 billion retail business and a $3.4 trillion business-to-business juggernaut,… OL58230W
The cult of the amateur The cult of the amateur Andrew Keen Entrepreneur Andrew Keen warns of what he sees as a narcissistic and cancerous culture developing with the invent of Web 2.0, whereby professionals are put out of business and the value of the media … OL8053028W
The Search The Search John Battelle How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture• The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller• Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year A… OL8982019W
Delete Delete Viktor Mayer-Schönberger,Viktor Nberger Delete leads us to an understanding of the digital age and how the inability to ‘forget’ has unforeseen and perhaps humiliating consequences in our daily lives. With Facebook now showing all of your… OL9056957W
The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It Jonathan L. Zittrain This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting … OL9381421W