Read­ing List

If you're in­ter­ested in a de­cen­tral­ized In­ternet, if you wonder how tech­nology in­fil­trates pol­i­tics (for better or worse), or if you're simply itching for a good read— take a look at one of the ti­tles below. You'll find a mix of the plea­sur­able and the schol­arly; but un­doubtably some­thing in­ter­esting. For my own sake I split the list up into "Reading, To Read, and Read". If you see any­thing on the list that you rec­og­nize, let me know what you thought! If you have a rec­om­men­da­tion, drop a line in the com­ments! Also take a look at my re­cent Book­marks Dump for ad­di­tional reading, tu­to­rials, en­ter­tain­ment, and other con­tent.

Reading

• The Lord of the Rings

  J. R. R. Tolkien

• Madame Curie

  Ève Curie

• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

  Joe Trippi

• Creating Things that Matter: The Art & Science of Innovations that Last

  David Edwards

To Read

• Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

  Anne Applebaum

• Casting the Net: From Arpanet to Internet and Beyond

  Peter H. Salus

• Steal This Book

  Abbie Hoffman

• Technologies of Freedom

  Ithiel de Sola Pool

• SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

  Anthony M. Townsend

• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

  James Gleick

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer

  Donella H. Meadows

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

  Shoshana Zuboff

• The Landmarks of Tomorrow

  Peter Drucker

• Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

  Brett Goldstein et al.

• Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing

  Malcolm McCullough

Fin­ished

• Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

  Roger McNamee

• Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

  Jessa Lingel

• Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy

  David Karpf

• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

  Amy Webb

• The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

  Aaron Swartz et al.

• The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism

  David W. Hill

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  Ben Horowitz

• Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology

  Timothy Morton

• The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

  Sasha Issenberg

• Steve Jobs

  Walter Isaacson

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  Robert M. Pirsig

• The Doors of Perception

  Aldous Huxley

• World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

  Franklin Foer

• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

  Yuval Noah Harari

• #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media

  Cass Sunstein

• The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology

  Thomas Hazlett

• Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software

  Matthew Fuller et al.

• NODE vol 01

  Mike Dank et al.

• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

  Claire L. Evans

• Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

  Daniel Kreiss

• The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution

  Michah White

• Dune

  Frank Herbert

• Dark Matter

  Blake Crouch

Never Fin­ished 🤷

• The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet

  Jeff Kosseff