The Well-Trained Mind

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Source Readings
  • Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964)
  • Lewis Mumford, Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Volume One (1967)
  • Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992)
  • Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age (1995)
  • Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality (1995)
  • Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
  • Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business (2005)
  • Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel (2006)
  • Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010)
  • Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (2013)
  • Steven Kotler and Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2014)
  • Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (2015)