Books like Smarter than you think by Clive Thompson

Walter Isaacson chronicles the minds that forged the digital age, from Ada Lovelace to Larry Page, showing how vision, collaboration, and engineering transformed abstract ideas into the computers, Internet, and technology we use today.

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.

Kurzweil explores the coming fusion of human minds with advanced machines, predicting that integrated intelligence will surpass current human capacity, shaping future society.

Ray Kurzweil surveys the rise of artificial intelligence, from philosophical roots to contemporary breakthroughs and future implications for science, society, and economy.

"Further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st century"--Cover.

Floridi explores how our digitally connected world reshapes identity, relationships, and the environment, urging an expanded ecological and ethical framework to address the emerging fourth revolution of information technology.

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.

Fusion of historical narrative and contemporary stories to analyze the social media revolution's impact on community, friendship, and individual freedom.

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In *Rewire*, Ethan Zuckerman examines how the Internet’s connectivity promises can fall short, analyzing why digital reach often fails to foster true global understanding and outlining innovations that can bridge cultural gaps.

"The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture beyond the fashionable celebration of 'anything goes' online culture or the overly pessimistic conceptions tainted by the logic of domination. In this new work, James Slevin develops an account of the internet and relates it to the analysis of culture and communications in late modern societies.". "This accessible and non-technical book will be of particular interest to students of media, communications and cultural studies, and of interest to anyone concerned with the effect of new technologies on modern culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.

"YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demonstrating how it is central to struggles for authority and control in the new media environment. Drawing on a range of theoretical sources and empirical research, the authors discuss how YouTube is being used by the media industries, by audiences and amateur producers, and by particular communities of interest, and the ways in which these uses challenge existing ideas about cultural 'production' and 'consumption'. Rich with both concrete examples and featuring specially commissioned chapters by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary and future implications of online media. It will be particularly valuable for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies."--Book cover.