(((Howard Rheingold))) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul"standing reserve" for our exploitation. Jacques Ellul wrote presciently and somewhat depressingly about the future of technology back in the 1950s. In English, his masterwork is "The Technological Society." In the original French, it's "La Technique." Technique, or any method
Paperback, Mass Market, 1967
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Leo Marx@tmccormick Thank you. I read Leo Marx a while back while I was looking into tech crit. I think he talked about "tech pastorolism?" Was he the "machine in the garden" guy?
Paperback, 2000
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Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
Mizuko Ito“Affinity Online:How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning” book by @mizuko et. al. could be useful here https://t.co/6MdEsTYiKD https://t.co/BfMfk69ulP
Paperback, 2018
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Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life (16pt Large Print Edition)
LaBerge Stephen@davewiner @tednelson Stephen LaBerge and I used MORE to write our book about lucid dreaming.
Paperback, Large Print, 2009
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The Circle
Dave EggersI've always tried to think critically abt technologies, especially ones I like. I enjoyed Dave Eggers book from a few years ago: "The Circle." But I thought it was too over the top. I'm almost finished with his latest, "The Every," and it is way over the top...and kinda right on.
Paperback, 2014
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
John MarkoffRT @markoff: This is something I wrote three years ago. My biography of Brand, “Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand” will be publi…
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Every
Dave EggersI've always tried to think critically abt technologies, especially ones I like. I enjoyed Dave Eggers book from a few years ago: "The Circle." But I thought it was too over the top. I'm almost finished with his latest, "The Every," and it is way over the top...and kinda right on.
Paperback, 2021
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Stanislaw LemI was influenced by Stanislaw Lem's old novel, The Futurological Congress, about a meeting of futurists that is bombed with psychedelic drugs https://t.co/hXjpd2NPGN
Paperback, 1985
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Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life
Stephen LaBerge@davewiner @tednelson Stephen LaBerge and I used MORE to write our book about lucid dreaming.
Paperback, 2009
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book