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Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
“What shall we do to get rid of Mr. Babbage and his calculating machine?” Prime Minister Robert Peel wrote one of his advisers in August 1842. “Surely if completed it would be worthless as far as science is concerned.… It will be in my opinion a very costly toy.”
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
David Phelps • The Currency of Community
This liquidity is just as true for the creation of books as for consumption.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In the meantime, there was a scramble among publishing entrepreneurs to gain market share for their books, not unlike the jostling we see today for control of search, social media, and apps for mobile devices. Printers pioneered consumer-friendly features such as the small-format volumes (octavo size, the equivalent of today’s paperback books), new
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