Ranked: How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?


This is a list of books that discuss how society responds to technological changes.  


General Application:


Behavioral Modification:
  1. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
  2. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  3. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Consequences and Changes:
  1. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
  2. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

History:

Medical Practices:
  1. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou