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Techtonic Reading List
"Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. Tech, community, video games, and whatever else is next."
Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlists and Archives wfmu.org/playlists/TD List of books featured in past shows. lombardoc4.github.io/TechtonicReadingList/
3 stars
From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about …
In the Camps by Darren Byler (Columbia Global Reports)
How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously …
5 stars
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He …
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith
3 stars
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In …
Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity
Silicon Valley is known for its lavish …
In Praise of Good Book Stores by Jeff Duetsch, Jeff Deutsch
4 stars
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, …
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
4 stars
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
4 stars
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because …
