New Books in Technology
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Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
60 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2026
Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
35 mins; March 17, 2026
César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)
66 hours 35 mins; March 16, 2026
Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)
44 mins; March 14, 2026
Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)
52 mins; March 09, 2026
Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)
41 mins; March 08, 2026
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
46 mins; March 04, 2026
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
63 hours 10 mins; February 27, 2026
Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 3 mins; February 26, 2026
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
79 hours 2 mins; February 25, 2026
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
48 mins; February 23, 2026
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; February 22, 2026
Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
50 mins; February 21, 2026
Raiford Guins, "King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions" (MIT Press, 2026)
75 hours 23 mins; February 20, 2026
W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
48 mins; February 19, 2026
David King Dunaway, "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet" (Columbia UP, 2023)
58 mins; February 18, 2026
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley et al. eds., "Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media" (Routledge, 2025)
38 mins; February 12, 2026
Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)
44 mins; February 12, 2026
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; February 11, 2026
Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)
54 mins; February 11, 2026
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
38 mins; February 07, 2026
Tom Griffiths, "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind" (Henry Holt and Co., 2026)
68 hours 37 mins; February 04, 2026
Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek, "The Organism Is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
73 hours 39 mins; January 21, 2026
Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)
40 mins; January 20, 2026
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 19, 2026
Aaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
20 mins; January 06, 2026
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
42 mins; January 05, 2026
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
38 mins; December 29, 2025
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 mins; December 29, 2025
Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
41 mins; December 17, 2025
Chaim Gingold, "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" (MIT Press, 2024)
20 mins; December 15, 2025
Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
102 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025
Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
42 mins; December 03, 2025
Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025)
50 mins; December 02, 2025
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; November 30, 2025
Elisabetta Ferrari, "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; November 29, 2025
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
54 mins; November 19, 2025
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
96 hours 34 mins; November 17, 2025
Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
52 mins; November 11, 2025
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
52 mins; November 09, 2025
The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
74 hours 21 mins; November 06, 2025
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
34 mins; November 03, 2025
Muhammad Atique, "Algorithmic Saga: Understanding Media, Culture, and Transformation in the AI Age" (Atique Mindscape Publishing, 2024)
46 mins; November 01, 2025
Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland, "The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines" (Basic Books, 2025)
140 hours 51 mins; October 29, 2025
Xiao Huang et. al, "GeoAI and Human Geography: The Dawn of a New Spatial Intelligence Era" (Springer, 2025)
29 mins; October 29, 2025
Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" (Stripe Press, 2025)
51 mins; October 28, 2025
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
93 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2025
Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
63 hours 49 mins; October 24, 2025
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; October 23, 2025
Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 23, 2025
José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 21, 2025
David Eliot, "Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI" (Aevo UTP, 2025)
66 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
31 mins; October 13, 2025
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
25 mins; October 06, 2025
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
55 mins; October 06, 2025
Michael Fernandez and Amauri Serrano, "Streaming Video Collection Development and Management" (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2025)
47 mins; October 03, 2025
Daniel K. Sodickson, "The Future of Seeing: How Imaging is Changing the World" (Columbia UP, 2025)
69 hours 43 mins; October 03, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, "Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do" (APS Press, 2025)
35 mins; September 29, 2025
Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
70 hours 54 mins; September 13, 2025
Human Leadership for Humane Technology
46 mins; September 09, 2025
Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
53 mins; September 09, 2025
Milan Janosov, "Geospatial Data Science Essentials: 101 Practical Python Tips and Tricks" (2024)
37 mins; September 06, 2025
Milan Janosov, "Geospatial Data Science Essentials: 101 Practical Python Tips and Tricks" (2024)
35 mins; September 06, 2025
Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
65 hours 2 mins; September 05, 2025
Anthony Bonato, "Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
65 hours 42 mins; September 03, 2025
Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
80 hours 25 mins; September 01, 2025
Ben Connable, "Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
39 mins; August 23, 2025
Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)
65 hours 23 mins; August 20, 2025
Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; August 20, 2025
Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (Bristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2025
Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
58 mins; August 13, 2025
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
58 mins; August 11, 2025
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; August 11, 2025
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
59 mins; August 09, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
56 mins; August 03, 2025
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 47 mins; August 01, 2025
On Bullshit in AI
20 mins; July 31, 2025
Anil Ananthaswamy, "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI" (Dutton, 2024)
69 hours 21 mins; July 30, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
65 hours 13 mins; July 23, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; July 18, 2025
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
29 mins; July 13, 2025
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
61 hours 20 mins; July 11, 2025
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
67 hours 51 mins; July 08, 2025
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
99 hours 16 mins; June 30, 2025
Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
48 mins; June 22, 2025
Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
30 mins; June 20, 2025
Trans Technologies
67 hours 27 mins; June 19, 2025
Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
61 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2025
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
59 mins; June 09, 2025
John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
105 hours 13 mins; May 31, 2025
Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
87 hours 49 mins; May 27, 2025
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
54 mins; May 19, 2025
Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; May 14, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 13, 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
52 mins; May 12, 2025
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 28 mins; May 09, 2025
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; May 05, 2025