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Hagen Blix, Ingeborg Glimmer: Why We Fear AI (Paperback, Common Notions)
Ben Tarnoff: Internet for the People (Paperback, 2021, Verso Books)
Amanda Jones: That Librarian (Hardcover, 2024, Bloomsbury)

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Brian Merchant: Blood in the Machine (Hardcover, 2023, Little Brown & Company)
Heather Marsh: Abstracting Divinity (EBook, MustReadInc)

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Marietje Schaake: Tech Coup (2024, Princeton University Press)
The three-body problem (Hardcover, 2014, TOR)
Cory Doctorow: The Bezzle (2024)

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reviewed Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …

Unexpected but well worth a read

An examination of the covid years that existing in our memories as a blurred, distant thing despite having just been couple years ago! I appreciated how Kline cleverly takes you off the beaten path, only to deliver you back on path possessing a greater insight into an unexpected part of the whole.

finished reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …

An examination of the covid years that existing in our memories as a blurred, distant thing despite having just been couple years ago! I appreciated how Kline cleverly takes you off the beaten path, only to deliver you back on path possessing a greater insight into an unexpected part of the whole.

reviewed Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan

Dan McQuillan: Resisting AI (2022, Bristol University Press)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t …

Interesting, informative but the solutions feels like it's aging out of reach.

Well written , Informational and provided helpful insight into AIs ability to negativity impact society.

That said the book is not aging well as things have changed greatly in the AI world in the past 2 years. Between the quickly shifting sands of both politics and technology, the solutions described in the book seem wonderful but quickly receding out of reach of US society.