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
Dwaipayan Banerjee · Princeton University Press · 2026
Begin with the history we don’t tell: a lost technological revolution.
Karrie G. Karahalios · MIT Press · 2026
Then the present problem: how you actually audit these systems.
Erik Lin-Greenberg · Cornell University Press · 2025
The machines at the edge of the state: drones and statecraft.
Alex "Sandy" Pentland · MIT Press · 2025
And the culture: what AI does to how knowledge evolves.
Benjamin Mangrum · Stanford University Press · 2025
End light: computation as comedy, obsolescence and all.