Rough Type Bookshelf
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Books)The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information SocietyTechnopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentra...
by Alexander R. Galloway
$13.46
A challenging examination of the technological structure of the Internet that asks whether the Net furthers freedom or control
The Control Revolution: Technological and E...
by James Beniger
$31.63
A brilliant historical analysis that provides the context for the rise of information technology over the past century
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Tec...
by Neil Postman
$9.89
A superbly written polemic on where technology is taking us
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the InternetThe Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society (Da Capo Paperback)
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a ...
by David E. Nye
$20.31
Nye's one of the best writers on the history of technology, and this is my favorite of his books
The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet
$22.49
Fascinating, disturbing and just plain weird
The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics ...
by Norbert Wiener
$13.50
Wiener's "Cybernetics" is better known, but I prefer this one. A classic.
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black HolesWho Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless WorldDoes IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science ...
by Charles Seife

We're doomed. Here's why.
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a ...
by Jack Goldsmith
$7.85
How old geopolitical boundaries are redefining the Net
Does IT Matter? Information Technology and ...
by Nicholas G. Carr
$13.90
The real role of information technology in business, by yours truly