Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future By Martin Ford, New York: Basic Books, 2015. 334 pp. Martin Ford is a 25-year veteran computer design and software developer based in California’s Silicon Valley. His previously published book was The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the …
Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology By Doug Hill, University of Georgia Press, 2016. 221 pp. Doug Hill is a journalist and independent scholar who has studied the history and philosophy of technology for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlantic, Salon, Forbes, Esquire, and his …
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2014. 293 pp. Steven Johnson is the author of nine books, the founder of multiple websites, and the host and co-creator of PBS and BBC series How We Got to Now. How We Got to …
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2014. 274 pp. Michael Lewis is a best-selling author of many well-known books including Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Boomerang, and The Big Short. This is a book about technology, and the building of a very special fiber …
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni. San Francisco: Josey Bass, 2012. xvii, 216 pp. Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a management consulting practice focused on organizational health and executive development. He is the author of nine other books. His others are written as …
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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch. Self-published under Nononina Press, 2013. x, 313 pp. Guy Kawasaki is the author of 11 previous books, including What the Plus!, Enchantment, and the Art of the Start. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com and the former chief evangelist of …
Dancing With Digital Natives: Staying in Step With the Generation That’s Transforming the Way Business Is Done, edited by Michelle Manafy and Heidi Gautschi. Medford, New Jersey, Information Today Inc., 2011. xiv, 394 pp. Michelle Manafy is director of content for FreePint Ltd., and was previously editorial director of the Enterprise Group for Information Today …
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xxii, 675 pp. Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. Earlier he was president and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time. He is the author of numerous books including biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and …
The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. xiiii, 305 pp. Charles Handy is a former oil company executive, a philosopher, a broadcaster, and an author of many books and articles. He lives in London. The thesis of the book is that paradoxes are inevitable. Often we try to …
The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History by Kirsten Grind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. [electronic edition, quotes referenced by percent of progress through the book rather than by page number] Kirsten Grind is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Much of the work for this book …
