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Machines and the people around them

Computing as a cultural force, not just a technical one.

A path through technology and society: how computation arrived, how we hold it accountable, and the culture that grows up around the machines.

5 books · in order

  1. Dwaipayan Banerjee · Princeton University Press · 2026

    Begin with the history we don’t tell: a lost technological revolution.

  2. Karrie G. Karahalios · MIT Press · 2026

    Then the present problem: how you actually audit these systems.

  3. Erik Lin-Greenberg · Cornell University Press · 2025

    The machines at the edge of the state: drones and statecraft.

  4. Alex "Sandy" Pentland · MIT Press · 2025

    And the culture: what AI does to how knowledge evolves.

  5. Benjamin Mangrum · Stanford University Press · 2025

    End light: computation as comedy, obsolescence and all.

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