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the century: the creation of a vast, prosperous American middle class.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
As long ago as 1936, the prehistorian V. Gordon Childe wrote a book called Man Makes Himself.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?
Jared Diamond • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
Increasing the variety of processors.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
their yards.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
As it became clear to French observers that most indigenous Americans saw individual autonomy and freedom of action as consummate values