Books like The cult of the amateur by Andrew Keen

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think explains how the ability to collect, store, and analyze large volumes of information is reshaping society, technology, and decision‑making.

A nonfiction examination of how the Internet reshapes social interaction, business, and technology.

A brilliant guide to the future of the Internet and how it's changing the way we live and work.

This book is an eagle's eye view of the Internet edge. It is about the experiences of those who encountered similar issues as they built precursors to the Net such as videotext, teletext, and the Source.

"The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn’t see it. Because it has no shape. It has no face, just this name that describes everything and nothing at the same time. Yet we are still trying to climb onboard, to get inside, to be part of the network, to get in on the language game, to show up on searches, to appear to exist. But we will never get inside of something that isn’t there. All this time we’ve been bemoaning the death of any critical outside position, we should have taken a good look at information networks. Just try to get in. You can’t. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually it’s made of mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and more—not just information, but the world itself. And a very particular world that has already become part of our consciousness. And it wants something. It doesn’t only want to harvest our eyeballs, our attention, our responses, and our feelings. It also wants to condition our minds and bodies to absorb all the richness of the planet’s knowledge."--Back cover.

Andrew Keen argues the modern internet, rather than fostering competition, has diminished economic value and spawned powerful monopolies such as Google and Amazon.

Jeremy Rifkin explores a future where nearly every activity becomes a paid experience, arguing that the commodification of human time is reshaping society and questioning whether relationships can survive outside the commercial sphere.