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Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anywhere Future — and Locked Us In. By Brian X. Chen. Da Capo Press.
June 27, 2011 – 7:19 pm | Comments Off

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Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anywhere Future — and Locked Us In
by Brian X. Chen
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2011
Even Steve Jobs didn’t quite know what he had on …

The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives. By Frank Moss. Crown Business.
June 4, 2011 – 7:38 pm | Comments Off

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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
by Frank Moss
New York: Crown Business, 2011
If you’ve …

The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). By Siva Vaidhyanathan. University of California Press.
May 15, 2011 – 9:19 am | Comments Off

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The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2011
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point …

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. By Steven Levy. Simon and Schuster.
May 13, 2011 – 5:36 pm | Comments Off

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011
Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as …

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI. By John Johnston. MIT Press.
January 17, 2011 – 7:42 pm | Comments Off

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The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
by John Johnson
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2010
In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent …

Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Portfolio.
October 14, 2010 – 8:28 pm | Comments Off

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Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
New York: Portfolio, 2010
In their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was …

What Technology Wants. By Kevin Kelly. Viking.
October 13, 2010 – 8:03 pm | Comments Off

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What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly
New York: Viking, 2010
In this provocative book, Kevin Kelly introduces a brand-new view of technology. He suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of …

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will not Solve Our Global Problems. By Henry Petroski. Alfred A. Knopf.
April 8, 2010 – 7:25 pm | Comments Off

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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will not Solve Our Global Problems
by Henry Petroski
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, …

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century. By William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns. MIT Press.
March 27, 2010 – 4:56 pm | Comments Off

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Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
by William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2010
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a …

Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution. By Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian. MIT Press.
July 26, 2009 – 8:55 pm | Comments Off

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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
by Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009
America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A federal program …

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