ZDNet UK book reviews by Wendy M. Grossman:

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2021

• The New Breed, by Kate Darling (2021-11-08) - Suggests that we can understand how to live with robots by contemplating how we learned to live with animals.
• Exponential Growth, by Azeem Azhar (2021-10-14) - The exponential gap opening up between our understanding of our world and new, fast-changing technologies in computing, biology, manufacturing, and energy.
• TikTok Boom, by Chris Stokel-Walker (2021-09-13) - Everything you wanted to know about TikTok without having to spend thousands of hours there.
• Social Warming, by Charles Arthur (2021-08-11) - Like global warming, the rising danger of social media was not a plan; just no one decided to prevent it.
• People Count, by Susan Landau (2021-07-02) - A short history of contact tracing apps.
• Atlas of AI, by Kate Crawford (2021-06-21) - Mapping the cost of the AI supply chain.
• Silicon Values, by Jillian C. York (2021-06-07) - A world traveler studies the impact across the world of the decisions made by the tiny Silicon Valley community.
• The Hype Machine, by Sinan Aral (2021-04-25) - How to change the "hype machine" inside the social media-industrial complex.
• The Hidden Ppower of Systems Thinking, by Ray Ison and Ed Straw (2021-03-16) - Using cybernetics to propose a profound chnage in how governments think and operate.
• Lurking, by Joanne McNeil (2021-01-04) - Reframes Internet history and finds a profound power shift.

2020

• Holiday reading roundup: How the future looked before the pandemic (2020-12-29) - Everyday Chaos (David Weinberger); AI in the Wild (Peter Dauvergne); The Currency Cold War (David Birch); Parenting for a Digital Future (Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross); Life After Privacy (Firmin DeBrabander); and Data Action (Sarah Williams).
• Culture Warlords, by Talia Lavin (2020-12-03).
• The Smart Wife, by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (2020-11-03).
• The System, by James Ball (2020-09-28).
• How to Survive a Robot Invasion, by David Gunkel (2020-09-01).
• Hashtag Activism, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles (2020-07-29).
• Smoke and Mirrors, by Gemma Milne (2020-06-30).
• Adventures of a Computational Explorer, by Stephen Wolfram (2020-05-19).
• The Costs of Connection, by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (2020-04-14).
• Speech Police, by David Kaye (2020-03-18).
• Nano Comes to Life, by Sonia Contera (2020-02-10).

2019

• Holiday roundup (12/23/2019): Smarter Homes (Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino); Don't Be Evil (Rana Forhoohar); Invisible Women (Caroline Criado-Perez); Extraterrestrial Languages (Daniel Oberhaus); Exhalation (Ted Chiang).
• Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri and Behind the Screen by Sarah T. Roberts (11/22/2019).
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, by Janelle Shane (10/30/2019).
• Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden.
• The Big Nine, by Amy Webb (10/1/2019).
• The Smart-Enough City, by Ben Green (9/16/2019).
• The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, by Jeff Kosseff (8/12/2019).
• Three exhibitions: GCHQ's Top Secret, at the Scinece Museum; Driverless, at the Science Museum; and AI: More Than Human, at the Barbican Centre (7/30/2019).
• The Science of Breaking Bad, by Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson (6/26/2019).
• Robotics Through Science Fiction, by Robin R. Murphy (5/30/2010).
• YouTubers, by Chris Stokel-Walker (5/16/2019).
• Custodians of the Internet, by Tarleton Gillespie (5/10/2019).
• The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust, by Kevin Werbach (3/27/2019).
• The Curse of Bigness, by Tim Wu (2/20/2019).
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshanna Zuboff (2/5/2019).

2018

• Five top tech books for the holiday period: The Computer Book, by Simson Garfinkel; The Digital Ape, by Nigel Shadbolt; Do Robots Make Love?, by Laurent Alexandre and Jean-Michel Besnier; Infomocracy, by Malka Older; and Inside Black Mirror, by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, with Jason Arnopp (12/21/2018).
• Antisocial Media, by Siva Vaidhyanathan (12/18/2019).
• Click Here to Kill Everybody, by Bruce Schneier (11/2/2018).
• The Death of the Gods, by Carl Miller (9/21/2018).
• Artificial Unintelligence, by Meredith Broussard (8/29/2018).
• The Open Revolution, by Rufus Pollock (8/1/2018).
• The 4th Industrial Revolution, by Mark Skilton and Felix Hovsepian (7/17/2018).
• Cyber Wars, by Charles Arthur (6/4/2018).
• Driverless Cars, by Christian Wolmar (5/14/2018).
• Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, by Susan Landau (4/10/2018).
• Dawn of the New Everything, by Jaron Lanier (3/23/2018).
• The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu (3/19/2018).
• Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, by Tim Harford (2/16/2018).
• The Future of IoT, by Don Deloach, Emil Barthelson, and Wael Elrifai (2/7/2018).
• Life in Code, by Ellen Ullman (1/5/2018).

2017

• Tech books for Christmas: The Chinese Typewriter, by Thomas S. Mullaney; Forensic Architecture, by Weizman; Enemies Known and Unknown, by Jack McDonald; Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, by David Birch; Robot Sex, edited by John Danaher and Neil McArthur (12/18/2017).
• Children Online: Screenwise, by Deborah Heitner; and Worried About the Wrong Things, by Jacqueline Ryan Wickery (12/6/2018).
• Post-Truth, by James Ball (10/20/2017).
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman (10/2/2017).
• Crash Override, by Zoe Quinn (9/19/2017).
• The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, by Thomas Winslow Hazlett (8/14/2017). An accessible history of wireless regulation.
• Risk, directed by Laura Poitras (7/11/2017). A documentary that sets out to take a close-up look at Julian Assange and winds up uncertainly surveying the state of gender in tech.
• Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebookvik, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us, by Jonathan Taplin (6/28/2017). Taplin favors decentralization - but is unclear on the concept.
• To Be a Machine: Adventures among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, by Mark O'Connell (6/1/2017). A philosopher, rather than a technologist, considers possible futures.
• Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community, by Jessa Lingel (5/16/2017). Three case studies of alternative approaches to internet communities.
• The Power of Networks: Six Principles that Connect Our Lives, by Christopher G. Brinton and Mung Chiang (4/21/2017). Also a MOOC.
• Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence and Where It's Taking Us Next, by Luk Dormehl (3/21/2017). A history of the future of artificial intelligence.
• Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A new Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (3/1/2017). Forty essays outline an alternative online economy more like the internet as it was meant to be.
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O'Neil (1/31/2017). If you read only one book about the risks in algorithmic decision-making, make it this one.
• Zero Days, directed by Alex Gibney (1/25/2017). The development and deployment of Stuxnet.
• Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead, by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman (1/16/2017). Why building self-driving cars is hard.

2016

• Ctrl-Z: The Right to Be Forgotten, by Meg Leta (Ambrose) Jones (12/13/2016). A nuanced discussion of the legal conflicts between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
• The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age, by Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green (111/30/2016). Two LSE researchers analyse how technology progress is (or isn't) changing the lives of teenagers by spending a year with them.
• Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It, by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Christopher Higgins (10/21/2016). What we really want from these systems, the authors argue, is justice, not perfect accuracy.
• Robot Law, by A. Michael Froomkin, Ryan Calo, and Ian Kerr (10/5/2016). The best papers from the first four years of We Robot.
• The 4G Mobile Revolution, by Olaf Swantee with Stuart Jackson (10/3/2016). The former CEO of EE offers the merger he led between Orange and T-Mobile as a worked example of how to manage organizational change.
• Black Ops Advertising, by Marcia Einstein (8/2/2016). Sponsored content? You mean sneak-attack ads, don't you?
• Democracy: Im Rausch der Daten (documentary film), by David Bernet (6/9/2016). A surprisingly compelling study showing how the data protection sausage was made.
• Thinking Security, by Steven M. Bellovin (5/16/2016). A guide to thinking through cybersecurity challenges.
• Version Control, by Dexter Palmer (5/3/2016) - an extraordinary science fictional study of social change through technology that mixes software versioning, time travel, and personal tragedy.
• Heartificial Intelligence (3/30/2016) - a study of AI and human values.
• Astro Noise (exhibition), by Laura Poitras (3/10/2016) - mixed-media response to personal experience of the surveillance state.
• The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz (3/1/2016).
• Steve Jobs (film), directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin (2/9/2016) - the most dramatic moment in this lengthy talkfest is the replay of the 1984 Mac Super Bowl ad, which you can see on YouTube.
• Reclaiming Conversation, by Sherry Turkle (1/8/2016) - put down that phone! I say, put down that phone and talk to me!

2015

• Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, by Finn Brunton, and What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy, by Tom Slee (12/3/2015) - two intelligent deconstructions of the troubles in the paradise that is the internet.
• Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protect, by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum (11/9/2015) - strategies for hiding data and activities when everything is watched.How Music Got Free: The End of An Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy, by Stephen Witt (10/5/2015) - the rise of file-sharing required three things: the format known as MP3, an industry executive who saw music as sales numbers rather than art, and a factory worker willing to smuggle new releases out to the copying machine.
• Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin, by Nathaniel Popper (9/15/2015) - everything you ever needed to know about the rise of bitcoin.
• Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture, edited by Elissa Shevinsky (8/7/2015) - leaning in just isn't as easy in the tech industry if you're not white, straight, and male as Sheryl Sandberg makes out, as this collection of personal experiences shows.
• The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance, by Jim Whitehurst (8/3/2015) - Red Hat CEO explains how they do it, without crowdsourcing his narrative.
• The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age, by Robert Wachter (7/1/2015) - the electronic health record is only a beginning; after it comes the need for massive change to workflows.
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson, and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, by Danielle Citron (5/22/2015)
• Ex Machina (film), written and directed by Alex Garland (5/6/2015) - asked to conduct a Turing test, innocent young coder in remote mansion with mad scientist and mute servants fails to run away screaming.
• Countdown to Zero Day, by Kim Zetter (4/30/2015) - the story of Stuxnet.
• Threat Modeling, by Adam Shostack (4/8/2015) - first, know what you're trying to protect against.
• Data and Goliath, by Bruce Schneier (3/31/2015) - self-defense in the era of endemic data tracking.
• Black Box Society, by Frank Pasquale (3/12/2015) - the dangers of the data-driven society.
• Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door, by Brian Krebs (1/7/2015). Feuding spamlords and the Russian criminal underground all feuding over your inbox - and this is all really happening.

2014

• The Imitation Game (film) (12/15/2015). A tortured genius cracks codes and averts catastrophe, all while facing stern opposition from his superiors and colleagues. In this case: Alan Turing, whose triumph and tragedy were both real.
• Identity is the New Money, by David Birch (11/7/2014). Centuries ago, your word was your bond; in Dave Birch's future your self will be your bond, once again.
• CitizenFour, directed by Laura Poitras (10/23/2014). The Snowden revelations, as they happened, in real time.
• Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - the Lessons from a New Science, by Alex Pentland (9/17/2014) - MIT scientist studies how human interactions create the flow of new ideas.
• The Dark Net, by Jamie Bartlett (9/10/2014). Intrepid journalist sallies forth into the Net's hidden spaces in order to find out whether media and politician hype has it right - and finds much more nuance than you might expect.
• Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis (7/23/2014). The story starts with a tiny discrepancy in trading prices and blows up into a story of rigged markets and the fight to restore them to honesty.
• Technocreep, by Thomas P. Keenan (6/20/2014). "Creep" as in "Creepy", not "Creep" as in slowly moving to engulf your privacy. Or maybe both.
• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products, by Leander Kahney (6/3/2014).
• When Computing Got Personal: A British Take on Desktop PC History, by Matt Nicholson (5/7/2014). It's easy to forget now just how many British companies once made and innovated computers.
• Money: The Unauthorised Biography, by Felix Martin (4/7/2014). The story of money is different than we all think; it's not about shiny coins and blue beads - instead what matters is units of credit and accounting.
• The Circle, by Dave Eggers (3/6/2014). This way to the dystopia of your dreams.
• Open Data Now, by Joel Gurin (2/11/2014).

2013

• A Copyright Masquerade, by Monica Horten (12/17/2013). Why copyright reform keeps getting derailed: a worked example.
• Writing on the Wall, by Tom Standage (11/26/2013). Social media is as old as humanity; what's new and weird is the corporate media of the last century or two.
• The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, by Simon Singh (10/24/2013). Eat my mathematical jokes.
• Breakpoint, by Jeff Stibes (10/9/2013). Give a neuroscientist and Internet and he'll find a brain - and one that needs pruning.
• Regulating Code, by Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden (8/29/2013). What can the first two decades of Internet regulation teach us as we enter the third?
• To Save Everything, Click Here, by Evgeny Morozov (7/26/2013). The twin evils of our time: solutionism and Internet-centrism.
• Insanely Simple, by Ken Segall (6/26/2013). His Simple life with Steve Jobs.
• Big Data, by Ken Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (6/11/2013). If you're only going to read one book on Big Data this is the one.
• Secrets of Silicon Valley, by Deborah Perry Piscione (5/15/2013). If there are secrets in this book, they're for governments, not entrepreneurs.
• Fabricated, by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman (4/4/2013). The future of food - and everything else.
• The Rapture of the Nerds, by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow (2/25/2013). The wildest of rides.

2012

• Decoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing, by Janet Abbate (12/23/2012). The first programmers in both America and Britain were women. What happened?
• How to Thrive in the Digital Age, by Tom Chatfield (11/20/2012). Use common sense.
• Automate This, by Christopher Steiner (10/8/2012). A somewhat enthusiastic view of today's trend, algorithms everywhere and with everything: doing our searches, choosing new music, running the stock market.
• Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers, by John MacCormick (9/25/2012). An exploration of nine fundamental algorithms such as error compression, pattern recognition, and public key cryptography that underlie things you use every day - and, finally, the question of what can and cannot be computed.
• Windows 8 Executive Summary, by Mary Branscombe and Steve Bisson (9/6/2012). What it says on the tin.
• What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently and Win, by Peter Sander (8/20/2012). Potted advice with a famous name attached.
• Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?, by Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons (7/6/12). Nails down the security case against electronic voting.
• Distrust That Particular Flavor, by William Gibson (5/28/12). Excellent set of essays that appeals even to people who find Gibson's fiction impenetrable.
• The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters, by Mark Henderson (5/24/2012). Stop letting politicians get away with claiming ignorance of science. Teach them.
• The Copyright Enforcement Enigma: Internet Politics and the "Telecoms Package", by Monica Horten (5/16/12). A close examination of the way copyright law colonized the telecoms package; perhaps not the convergence we expected.
• Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and the Battle for the Internet, by Charles Arthur (4/17/2012). Given the head start it had, how did Microsoft lose so much ground to Apple and Google?
• The End of Money: Conterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers - and the Coming Cashless Society, by David Wolman (4/2/2012). Who needs cash?
• The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications, by Michal Zalewski (3/12/2012).
• Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, by Bruce Schneier (2/7/2012).
Google books (1/3/2012) - The Googlization of Everything, by Siva Vaidhyanathan, and In the Plex, by Steven Levy.
• The Lean Start-up, by Eric Ries (1/23/2012). Kind of obvious advice: learn from other people's mistakes, and burn your capital very, very slowly. And yet, how few people follow it...
• Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It, by Lawrence Lessig (1/9/2012). It's not that money necessarily corrupts - but it certainly raises doubt about politicians' motives.
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, by Kevin Mitnick (1/1/12)- the man who invented the term "social engineering" tells you how he did what he did.

2011

• Holiday reading: Lab Coats in Hollywood, by David A. Kirby; Possiplex, by Ted Nelson; Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture; and Virtual Water, by Tony Allan (12/16/2011).
• Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier, by Joseph Pine (12/1/2011).
• Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson (11/7/2011).
• TheTheory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (11/2/2011).
• Wikileaks books round-up: Julian Assange: the Unauthorised Autobiography; Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and others; Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, by Micah L. Sifry (10/3/2011). Update: (2014-02-27): Andrew O'Hagan, the ghostwriterof Assange's unauthorized autobiography, has published in the London Review of Books a detailed account of his work on the book.
• The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser (9/27/2011).
• My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time, by Lone Frank (9/19/2011).
• The Revolution Will be Digitised: Dispatches From the Information War, by Heather Brooke (9/5/2011).
• Kapitoil (novel), by Teddy Wayne (8/24/2011).
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, by Sherry Turkle (8/22/2011).
• Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Techno-Utopia, by Becky Hogge (7/28/2011).
• Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, by Nicholas de Monchaux (7/22/2011).
• Cybertraps for the Young, by Frederick S. Lane (7/4/2011).
• Surveillance or Security?, by Susan Landau (6/22/2011). Why it's such an incredibly bad security idea to build wiretapping into the base layer of the Internet.
• Free reading matter from the National Academies of Science (66/6/2011)- the NAS puts its library online.
• Decade of Change (6/6/2011), edited by Geoffrey Brewer and Barb Sanford.
• Living with Complexity, by Donald A. Norman (5/20/2011). It is not complexity that drives men mad, but ineffective communication and poor design.
• Enterprise Social Technology, by Scott Klososky and crowd (5/4/2011).
• Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (4/7/2011). Exposing the myth of the lone inventor.
• The CIO Edge, by Graham Waller, George Hallenbeck, and Karen Rubenstrunk (3/14/2011).
• Astroturf Wars (documentary film), written and directed by Taki Oldham (2/11/2011).
• The Master Switch, by Tim Wu (1/24/2011).

2010

• Law and the Internet, 3rd edition, by Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde (12/8/10).
• The Twitters of Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom (11/26/10).
• The Silent State, by Heather Brooke (11/11/10).
• The Facebook suite: The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin), The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich), and The Facebook Effect (David Kirkpatrick) (10/19/10).
• Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, Transform Your Business, by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler (10/1/10).
• Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papdimitriou (art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna) (8/25/10).
• Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier by Michael Fertik and David Thompson (6/30/10).
• Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn (5/24/10).
• Anywhere: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business by Emily Nagle Green (4/27/10).
• You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier (3/23/10).
• Fun, Inc: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business, by Tom Chatfield (3/11/10).
• Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta (3/10/10).
• 140-character reference - The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, and This is Social Media: Tweet, Blog, Link, and Post Your Way to Business Success, by Guy Clapperton (3/9/10).

links after this point have been retrieved where possible from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Exceptions not available in the Archive are starred.

2009

• *Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (11/16/09).
• *The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (8/17/09).
• The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (7/31/09).
• Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott (6/12/09).
• The Google Way, by Bernard Girard (5/19/2009).
• The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun (5/19/09).
• *The Public Domain by James Boyle (4/3/2009)
• Burning the Ships by Marshall Phelps and David Kline (4/3/09).
• Microsoft 2.0 by Mary Jo Foley (3/6/09).

2008

• *Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier (10/22/08).
• Security Engineering, Second Edition, by Ross Anerson (10/8/2008).
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingstone (6/19/08).
• Managing Humans by Michael Lopp (2/22/08).
• The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (2/1/08).
• Valley Boy by Tom Perkins (1/18/08).
• Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine by J Storrs Hall (1/11/08).

2007

• The Future of Reputation, by Daniel Solove (12/07). No wonder some people would like the right to be forgotten...
• Digital Identity Management edited by David Birch (11/30/07).
• The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman (11/16/07).
• *(excerpt) Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology edited by Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, John Weckert (10/15/07).
• Send: The How, Why When, and When Not of Email by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe (8/3/07).
• Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internet's Crown by Kieren McCarthy (7/25/07).
• *(excerpt) Privacy on the Line: the History and Politics of Wiretapping, Second Edition by Susan Landau and Whitfield Diffie (7/12/07).
• *(excerpt) Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (6/14/07).
• Play Money by Julian Dibbell (6/12/07).
• The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler (4/24/07).
• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (3/23/07).
• * The Perfect Thing, by Steven Levy (2/07).
• *(excerpt) Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow (2/7/07).
• *(excerpt) Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting by Aviel Rubin (2/2/07).
• Tough Choices: A Memoir by Carly Fiorina (1/18/07).

2006

• *Convergence Culture, by Henry Jenkins (12/06).
• *(partial) Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith and Timothy Wu (9/13/06).
• Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are letting consultants run off with \A370 billion of our money by David Craig and Richard Brooks (8/4/06).
• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce by Leslie Berlin (8/3/06).
• Women in Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation edited by J. McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray (7/5/06).
• Skeptical Inquirer, because there were two versions, one for the general market and one aimed at Christians, which contained an additional chapter tying the use of RFID chips and other forms of digital surveillance to Revelations.
• What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff (5/3/06).
• Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime by Robert Jones (4/4/06).
• Defeating the Hacker by Robert Schifreen (3/30/06).

2005

• *(partial) Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons From the Leading Edge (12/22/05).
• *(partial) Security and Usability edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Simson Garfinkel (12/12/05).
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle (11/16/05).
• *(partial) Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture by David Kline and Dan Burstein (10/5/05).
• *(partial) Switching to VOIP by Ted Wallingford (9/2/05).
• *(partial) We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People by Dan Gillmor (9/9/05).
• * Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards, by Dan Woods and Gautam Giuliani (9/05).
• iCon: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon (6/29/05).
• Rip-Off! by "David Craig" (6/28/05).
• CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (7/1/05).
• Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology by Drs Adam L. Young and Moti Yung (8/23/05).
• *(partial) RFID: Radio Frequency Identification by Steven Shepard (6/15/05)
• The Digital Person by Daniel Solove (6/8/05).
• Uncommon Sense by Peter Cochrane (5/4/05)
• *(partial) The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon (4/19/05).
• Defending the Digital Frontier by Jan Babiak, John Butters, and Mark W. Doll (3/22/05)
• *PC Hardware Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Computer Hardware, by Stephen J. Bigelow (3/05).
• Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams (2/28/05).
• Word Hacks by Andrew Savikas (2/17/05).
• Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation by Mark and Barbara Stefik (1/19/05).

2004

• High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories From the Digital Front by Steven Branigan (11/17/04).
• Succeeding with Open Source by Bernard Golden (10/28/04)
• Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking by Andrew A. Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, and Andrei A. Mikhailovsky (10/28/04)
• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (10/27/04)
• Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier (10.27/04)

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