Daniel Fry

A sweeping history of the digital revolution — from Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage through Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, William Shockley, and the personal computer pioneers — arguing that the most important innovations were always the product of collaboration, not lone genius.

Computer science algorithms offer surprisingly practical guidance for everyday human decisions — from optimal stopping to the explore-exploit tradeoff to how to sort your email.

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff's landmark analysis of how Google, Facebook, and the surveillance economy extract human behavioural data as a raw material, process it into prediction products, and sell certainty about future behaviour to advertisers and others.

The definitive guide to human-centered design — why everyday things frustrate us and how good design should be intuitive without instruction.

The untold story of how four friends — Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass — created Twitter and then destroyed their friendships fighting for control of it.

MIT physicist Max Tegmark explores the landscape of possible futures as artificial intelligence approaches and then surpasses human-level intelligence — and what choices humanity must make now.

Nicholas Carr's Pulitzer Prize finalist argues that the internet is reshaping human cognition — training brains for distraction, skimming, and rapid switching at the expense of deep reading and sustained thought.