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May 2, 2013

The New Digital Age

By ERIC SCHMIDT and JARED COHEN
Reviewed by Andrew Keen

The minds running Google weigh in on technology's next waves.

 

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October 3, 2012

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

By CHRIS ANDERSON
Reviewed by Andrew Keen

3-D printers and the future of manufacturing.

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October 12, 2010

What Technology Wants

By KEVIN KELLY
Reviewed by Stefan Beck

A co-founder of Wired celebrates the liberating—and sometimes intoxicating—fruits of humanity's technological progress.

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  • technology
June 9, 2010

Cognitive Surplus

By CLAY SHIRKY
Reviewed by Jonah Lehrer

An internet guru's audacious explanation of how the web is turning free time into a shared global resource of inspiring dimensions.

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January 12, 2010

You Are Not a Gadget

By JARON LANIER
Reviewed by Matthew Battles

A founding eminence of cyberspace inveighs against the digitization of culture. Read more...

Daybook

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
The New York Review Abroad

This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool. 

Hour of the Red God

In this searing African crime novel, former Maasai warrior Detective Mollel must defy a corrupt Nairobi government to solve the case of a murdered tribe woman.

The Wonder Bread Summer

This Tarantino-esque thriller finds shop girl Allie and a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine on the run from a vindictive hit man - after she discovers her dress shop is a front for a narcotics ring.