Will The Coronavirus Save Big Tech?
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 25, 2020
” Over at Wired, Facebook author Steven Levy asks “ Has the Coronavirus Killed the Techlash ?”
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We Are (About to Be) As Gods. Can We Get Used To It?
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 14, 2013
Church provides the book’s voice, authority, and personal anecdotes, Regis its structure and rigor. And according to the authors, we stand at the brink of a massive leap forward – analogous to where we were with digital technology back in the late 1970s. That, the authors argue, is about to change.
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The Next 100 Years: A Review
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 17, 2011
What makes the book so interesting are the author's predictions, the most radical being this: That by sometime mid century, we'll have a world war between two major sets of allies: On the one hand, the US, and the other, Turkey and Japan. It's a quick read, it's rather fun to speculate, and it'll get you thinking. Not a bad combination.
Will Our Industry Ever Innovate Like Morse? Probably Not.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 10, 2012
Morse , by Pulitzer-prize winning author Kenneth Silverman. Last month I finished a compelling biography of Samuel Morse: Lightning Man: The Accursed Life Of Samuel F.B. Other works I’ve reviewed: Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
The Singularity Is Weird
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 23, 2012
I’ll admit I’ve been avoiding doing so (it’s nearly six years old now) mainly for one reason: The premise (as I understood it) kind of turns me off, and I’d heard from various folks in the industry that the book’s author was a bit, er, strident when it came to his points of view. I was wrong.
Where Good Ideas Come From: A Tangled Bank
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 31, 2012
After pushing my way through a number of difficult but important reads, it was a pleasure to rip through Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation. I consider Steven a friend and colleague, and that will color my review of his most recent work (it came out in paperback last Fall).
Kevin Kelly’s “What Technology Wants”
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
And still others are very clearly the manifestation of the author’s own unscratchable itch. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy ( my review ). With those caveats declared, then, let me get to the book at hand. Some non-fiction books present themselves as lectures or arguments.
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