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
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 Landmarks of Tomorrow
Peter Drucker
- Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation
Brett Goldstein et al.
Finished
- Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Roger McNamee
- The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz et al.
- The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism
David W. Hill
- 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
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
- Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software
Matthew Fuller et al.
- NODE vol 01
Mike Dank et al.
- Dune
Frank Herbert
- Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Never Finished 🤷
- The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet
Jeff Kosseff