Technology & The Future

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankersdeliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary...

The New York Times-bestselling guide to how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives.Winner of Best Business Book of the Year awards from the Financial Times and from Forbes."Lucid, comprehensive, and unafraid . . ...

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize."A beautifully accessible guide.…One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms." —Times. If you were accused of a crime, who...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for...

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.  In our deluge of information, it’s...

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read.BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our...

A front-line industry insider's look at the financial technology explosion. The FINTECH Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prominent thought leaders in the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon“A must for...

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors.A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Timesbestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who...

Walter Isaacson, highly accomplished biographer of iconic figures like Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, takes on one of the most interesting and polarizing figures of the modern age.#1 New York Times bestseller.From the author of Steve...

DUTCH BESTSELLER • The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless...

Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope to gaze further into outer space to examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from comets and planets to galaxy clusters and stars. Since then, almost 100 space...

How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world.In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically...

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of...

An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.Open source software, in which developers publish code that anyone can use, has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late...

The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics. "For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by...

The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time is the vision of J.C.R...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book PrizeA structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world.   Some of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in...