Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland’s tech boom
A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals.
History of Computing, digital and information technologies
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterinpublished a visionary paper outlining the ideas behindwhat would become Ethereum. He proposed to
It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics
‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER
From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.
Hop, Skip, Go: How the Transport Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world’s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.
Hit Refresh: A Memoir by Microsoft’s CEO
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era.
Paper: An Elegy
A witty, personal and entertaining reflection on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world’s leading prize for popular science writing.
Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
A Michael Moore for the Dot.com generation, ‘21 Dog Years’ is Mike Daisey’s wickedly funny story of life in the New Economy trenches.
The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought: Third edition
A fully revised and updated edition of this unique, well-established, classic work of reference and companion to all fields of modern thought.
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women’s natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution.