Essential Reading
BOOKS
Key books to read...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything by James Barrat
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation by Émile P. Torres
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart J. Russell
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity by Joe Allen
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
Technology vs. Humanity by Gerd Leonhard
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Bürger
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century by Hal Foster
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality by Michael Heim
Virtual Realism by Michael Heim
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow
Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World by Kirk J. Schneider
Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction by Mark M. Siebel
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
How That Robot Made Me Feel by Ericka Johnson (editor)
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
Simulation and Simulacra by Jean Baudrillard
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Joseph Beuys and History by Daniel Spaulding
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual Class by Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism by Arthur Kroker
Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology by Edward Tenner
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
Power and Technology: A Theory of Social, Technical and Natural Power by Jan van Dijk
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gabby Wood
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality by Rachel Adams
Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond by David J. Gunkel
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun
The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner
The Culture of Technology by Arnold Pacey
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier by Katie Hafner & John Markoff
A Hacker’s Mind How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier
Situationist International Anthology by Ken Knabb (editor)
The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought by Mortimer J. Adler
A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century by Mark Dery
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld
The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch by Laura DeNardis
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do by Jeremy Bailenson
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Cyborg by Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing by Sara Baase
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture by Andrew Goodman
Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks by Bernard Keenan
Off with Their Heads: An Antifascist Coloring Book for Adults of All Ages by N.O. Bonzo
Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism by Jathan Sadowski
How to Speak Machine: A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by John Maeda
Personal Freedom: On Finding Your Way to the Real World by Arthur J. Deikman
Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age by Mike Holly
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
The Rape of The Mind by Joost A. M. Meerloo
Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World by Marc Goodman
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age by Wendy H. Wong
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli
Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know by Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
The Temporary Autonomous Zone: Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill
Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray
Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity by Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio
Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze
The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) by Kazimierz Dąbrowski
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
Radical Man: The Process of Psycho-Social Development by Charles Hampden-Turner
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton
Betrayal of the Self by Arno Gruen
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Human Crisis by Albert Camus