Books like Swiped by Adam Levin

A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

The Shallows explores how computer‑delivered information reshapes human cognition, weaving Marshall McLuhan, communication history, and neuroscience into a comprehensive analysis of the digital age's mental impact.

Digital Minimalism shows how reducing everyday technology use can improve well‑being, offering a practical strategy to reclaim free time and focus on meaningful activities.

Mark Wolynn’s book uncovers how trauma can be transmitted across generations and offers a practical Core Language Approach to identify and heal those hidden legacies through self‑inventories, genograms, and visualization techniques.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Jaron Lanier argues that social media erodes autonomy, truth, and dignity, urging readers to delete their accounts and imagine a more humane digital future.

Tim Wu examines the evolution of attention harvesting—from early advertising to digital algorithms—exploring how the pursuit of human focus reshapes society, culture, and commerce.

Jonathan L. Zittrain dissects the forces that drove the Internet to ubiquity and argues that its unbridled growth now threatens its own future. He warns of a looming paralysis and new forms of control, urging proactive safeguards.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for -- and sacrificing -- in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. - Publisher.