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represented a significant realignment of workplace practices. It also foreshadows a massive realignment in textual practice.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
Sheng Shicai,
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
broader in scope
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
“cliometrics” or economic history.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
liberalism. It is dangerous to trust our future to market forces, because these forces do what’s good for the market rather than what’s good for humankind or for the world.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
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