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Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson – review
The supernatural and the information superhighway collide in G Willow Wilson's imaginative debut novelWhat would happen if the veil between visible and invisible worlds started to fray? This is the...
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson – review
Chris Anderson's vision of the future involves us all becoming manufacturersWith its subtitle heralding "The New Industrial Revolution", this is a book that never knowingly undersells itself. Every...
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Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review
The groundbreaking computer scientist asks whether we have given up too much power to the big digital corporationsJaron Lanier, groundbreaking computer scientist and infectious optimist, is concerned...
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Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier; Big Data by Victor Mayer-Schönberger...
Two views of the internet information explosion offer starkly contrasted visions of the futureJaron Lanier is a digital visionary with a difference. As the New Yorker once put it, he is a technology...
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Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson – review
A sprawling, absorbing and thought-provoking account of the development of the computerThe question of who invented the digital computer is almost as futile, in a way, as asking who built Chartres...
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To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov – review
Morozov takes a hard look at the claims of cybertheorists and concludes that our techno future might be dark and dangerousNewsflash: the internet doesn't exist. If you think there is just one thing...
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The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen – review
The predictions of two of Google's big thinkers constitute the most ambitious attempt yet to sketch a future dominated by technologyWhen, in early 2011, Eric Schmidt stepped aside from his position as...
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Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike...
The web has transformed drug use in profound and unsettling waysThere's a great story in the middle of Drugs 2.0 in which Mike Power, the author, explains how he came to investigate the burgeoning...
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Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman; Untangling the Web by Aleks Krotoski – review
The internet is a great tool for cosmopolitanism – so why is it making us so insular?Open a street map of a city – any city – and what you see is a diagram of all the possible routes that one could...
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We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous and the...
While the identities of Lulzsec and Anonymous hackers baffled the world's security forces, journalist Parmy Olson managed to gain extraordinary access to the groups, leading to this fascinating...
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Tech monthly book reviews: Stephen Hawking, maths, science and the Simpsons
From the maths of the Simpsons to Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and astronaut Chris HadfieldThe Simpsons and their Mathematical SecretsSimon Singh The Simpsons' plot lines were often seeded with...
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Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson – review
An interesting and entertaining collection of speeches, articles, interviews and short stories from the science-fiction novelistThis collection of 16 pieces by science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson...
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2000 Years by Tom Standage –...
Why mass media were an aberration in human historyA few years ago, I broke a large mirror. Between the glass and the back of the wooden frame, I found a copy of the Daily Mail from 11 July 1925....
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Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World by Noreena...
Noreena Hertz's book makes compelling arguments about the encroachment of information into our livesThe economist Noreena Hertz's latest book was inspired by a bout of ill health six years ago, during...
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Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton – review
Twitter is good for you … are you dismissive of tweeting and those who tweet? Think again.The entrepreneur Jack Dorsey spent part of 2005 ineptly flirting with Crystal Taylor, the sole female employee...
View ArticleHello Ruby kids' coding book raises $185k (and counting) on Kickstarter
'I really thought this would be a little art project,' says Linda Liukas, after crowdfunding project beats original $10k goal. By Stuart DredgeStuart Dredge
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Who's the most significant historical figure?
From Leonardo da Vinci to Einstein, and Shakespeare to Stephen King, two data analysts have ranked the most significant people in history – do the results seem right?People love lists, and are perhaps...
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Vikram Chandra's top 10 computer books
The writer chooses a range of fiction, history and theory to offer an informal anthropology of computingThe impulse to write my first non-fiction book, Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software,...
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Geek Sublime review – a sceptical take on coding culture
This is a fascinating book, a kind of techno-artistic memoir informed by Vikram Chandra's ability as both novelist and coder.In 1843, Britain's minister for education announced that every schoolchild...
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Where did the story of ebooks begin?
Peter James's Host, published on two disks, was an early example – but exactly where the medium started life is surprisingly tricky to identifyWhat was the first ebook? Debate rages … When Peter James...
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