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Going back to the writings of William Rees-Mogg (among others), this argues that the replacement of elected governments by corporate rule (Thiel, Musk etc) is deliberate strategy, not a by-p... read more

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy ...

Gil Duran

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The new kinds of machine-human interaction - AI companions, friends, lovers, parents, spouses - even AI resurrectionists... Disturbing, funny, challenging.

Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relatio ...

James Muldoon

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A short, critical essay on free speech, surveillance, authoritarianism and propaganda.

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

Ai Weiwei

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A substantial biography of one of the scientists who first deciphered DNA.

Crick: A Mind in Motion

Matthew Cobb

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A biography of the New Zealander who was one of the foundational figures of modern physics and pioneer of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

Matthew Wright

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A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.

This is For Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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Informed by his years with Meta.

How to Save the Internet

Nick Clegg

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As the old world dies and the new world struggles to be born, da Empoli assembles a rogues' gallery of the tyrants, tech bros and billionaires constructing our present dystopia. Acerbic yet ... read more

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billi ...

Giuliano da Empoli

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A tale of precarious monopolies and feuding factions, redolent of warring Renaissance merchant families. We know them from their brand logos and app icons; we read the salient points of thei... read more

iWar: Fortnite, Musk, Spotify, and the Siege of Apple ...

Tim Higgins

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This love letter to the commonality of knowledge from the founder of Wikipedia ponders what truth and trust mean in a 'post-truth' age.

The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today’s Most Essential Super ...

Jimmy Wales

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Both the invention of writing and the printing press threw the human race out of whack. Alderman explores our current, third 'Information Crisis': the internet. She looks at how we are bein... read more

Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

Naomi Alderman

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The quantum technology revolution promises a barely believable reality - one in which even teleportation and telepathy are on the cards. Yet scientists continue to be divided over how to mak... read more

Quantum 2.0

Paul Davies

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100 objects to celebrate its 350th birthday. Well illustrated.

Royal Observatory Greenwich: A History in Objects

Louise Devoy

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A compelling account of what we know about black holes, including how our pursuit of knowledge of the void led us towards the invention of Wifi, the calibration of GPS and critical evidence... read more

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth ...

Jonas Enander

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The dark age of the soul: a close look at the terrifying erosion of the spirit by techno-capitalism and its machinations, and a reminder of what makes us human.

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth

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An account of the investigation by the German newspaper Handelsblatt following an approach by an ex-employee of Tesla: makes for startling reading.

The Tesla Files: A whistleblower, a Leak, a Fight for Truth: The Insid ...

S?nke Iwersen

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We missed this brilliant exposition from our Christmas 2024 catalogue. (It's still available in hardback too.)

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world ...

Parmy Olson

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The story of the pursuit of nuclear power, charting the lives and struggles of the scientists who dedicated their careers to advancing our knowledge, with unforeseen consequences.

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 ...

F. E. Close

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A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West ...

Rebecca Solnit

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It is a stretch to say that this brilliant mathematician was Einstein's tutor, and a diminution of her very significant contribution to algebra and physics. Born in 1882, she was discriminat... read more

Einstein’s Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of ...

Lee Phillips

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From the author of the bestselling Sapiens.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to A ...

Yuval Noah Harari

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The author of The Overstory and Bewilderment has written another ambitious novel in which relationships develop alongside themes of technology, the environment and the future of the race (hu... read more

Playground

Richard Powers

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A valuable study of the nature of modern corporations and the prevailing ideas about commercial success.

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) Everything w ...

John Kay

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Argues that AI will free us from our biological constraints - and this is a cause for optimism.

The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

Ray Kurzweil

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CdR has explored the edges of gravity as a theoretical physicist, diver, pilot and would-be astronaut.

The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity ...

Claudia de Rham

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VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... read more

Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in ...

Violet Moller

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The loss of human agency to algorithms and AI in nine lives - including that of British poet Helen Mort.

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

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Argues that the past is the data-mine for AI, which therefore cannot fail to replicate its biases and flaws.

The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinki ...

Shannon Vallor

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The repeated confusion of the author's name with that of Naomi Wolf became ever more disturbing as 'Other Naomi' slid deeper into alt-right conspiracy theories during the pandemic. Klein fol... read more

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

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A philosopher and two scientists outline the moral quandaries AI poses and analyse how it might be harnessed for the greater good.

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Jana Schaich Borg

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Toon defines what exactly 'intelligence' means in respect to AI: how that intelligence is already shaping our world, and how we can use it to think about ourselves.

How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can con ...

Nigel Toon

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Technology from the wheel to the computer: our understanding, its evolution; its relationship with capital, need, politics, work and liberty.

The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning

Robert Skidelsky

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The baleful effects of fibre optic cables and obscure payment systems on the balance of international power.

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy ...

Henry Farrell

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Argues that today's Sino-American rivalry in micro-processing is as important in geopolitical terms as the economics of oil was at the time of the first Gulf War.

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology ...

Chris Miller

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For inquisitive brain-boxes aged 8-11: from the earliest counting systems to Tim Berners-Lee and wearable tech. Many illustrations.

The History of the Computer

Rachel Ignotofsky

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The reclusive Higgs posited the existence of his particle in a paper in 1964. It was 2012 before it was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A superb study of a scientist and his ... read more

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass ...

Frank Close

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