Books like The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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.

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.

Clive Thompson argues that the Internet and digital tools are making us smarter, better connected, and fostering new ways of learning and collaboration.

Michael Harris examines how the pervasive Internet has eroded our ability to experience absence—silence, wonder, and solitude—highlighting the consequences for human connection, cognition, and culture.

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"--human and machine capabilities working together--has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? Gathering insights from diverse fields, including philosophy, computer science, and biology, Big Mind reveals how collective intelligence can guide corporations, governments, universities, and societies to make the most of human brains and digital technologies. -- amazon.com

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.