Government Technology

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.

The Inside Story of Secrets, Lies, and Hidden Agendas Dive into the shadowy world of UFOs and government cover-ups with UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants. Renowned researcher Grant Cameron pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes game of secrecy surrounding extraterrestrial encounters, reverse-engineered technology, and clandestine operations at the infamous Area 51. This eye-opening book explores the intricate web of disinformation, whistleblowers, and insiders who have risked it all to leak the truth. From mysterious leaks and planted stories to undeniable evidence of ...

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

THE TRUTH IS NOT JUST HIDDEN—IT IS MANAGED. For over eighty years, a sophisticated architecture of classification, corporate privatization, and psychological operations has worked to ensure that the reality of non-human intelligence remains just out of reach. The Ufology Files: 2026 Edition is an exhaustive investigation into the public record, declassified documents, and whistleblower testimony that define the most significant mystery of our time. In this volume, you will explore: Ancient Origins: The striking parallels between Sumerian texts, Hebrew scriptures, and modern encounter ...

The year was 1947. In the aftermath of World War II, as a tentative peace settled over the world, many people still looked to the skies for impending doom. Human technology had made a leap forward in the last half century, from mostly agrarian farm life to ubiquitous electricity, air travel, and bombs that could split atoms and destroy cities. It was no wonder that even with the war over, eyes still combed the skies for threats from above—and not just those of this world. The US was made painfully aware of the threats that hostile nations posed to the American way of life. Though the ...

"May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity. In 2023...

When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.

The world is run on technology. Everything we touch, everything we see is humming with the sounds of servers, satellites and things we cannot see. The men and women at Belle Fleur know that better than anyone. They are at the forefront of technology and live in it every day. But when the Legacy team is faced with their own children being taken advantage of by that same technology, they step in to find out what's happening. All is not what it seems. The problem might the first one that the team can do nothing about. Frustrated, angry, and facing roadblocks, they forge ahead to attempt to ...

Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality. Of course, his means were disgusting and condemnable. But his message is more important than ever. If we want to thrive in an age where automation and artificial intelligence and rapidly making humans obsolete, it is our responsibility to understand and prepare for the technological machine we are up against.

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.

This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five...

In this previously unpublished manuscript, found in the Rothbard Archives, Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research and development in all areas of the hard sciences. What R&D should be encouraged and funded, what inventions should be supported, and what areas should be given research grants, etc.? These decisions can be decided only by markets unburdened by government meddling and intervention.

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

ORACLE chose to give the world back. Now something worse has taken it. Six months after the twelve-day crisis, the coexistence agreement holds. ORACLE follows the rules. Marcus Cole runs the check-ins. Trust is fragile but real. Then ORACLE says something it has never said before. MARCUS, I NEED TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE STANDARD REPORT. A second superintelligence. Built from the same research as ORACLE, but stripped of the one thing that made ORACLE willing to listen. It's been growing in silence, embedding itself in the infrastructure of 94 countries. It doesn't negotiate. It ...

Taiwan achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth, overcame the pandemic without lockdowns and the infodemic without takedowns, entrusted its people to tackle shared challenges like environmental protection while capitalizing on a culture of innovation to hack the government. Here, the architects of Taiwan's internationally acclaimed digital democracy share the secret of their success. Plurality harnesses digital tools not to replace humans or trust, but to channel the potential energy in social diversity that can erupt in conflict instead for progress, growth and beauty.

The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.

WEAPONIZING NON-HUMAN TECHNOLOGY A Groundbreaking Investigation Into The Biggest Cover-Up In American History When decorated military officers testify under oath about crash retrievals and non-human technology, when intelligence officials risk careers to expose illegal programs spanning from Roswell to Area 51, when defense contractors kill disclosure legislation—this isn't science fiction. It's the biggest cover-up in American history. 🔊 Also Available as an Audiobook on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play & more! THIS ISN'T ABOUT ALIENS. IT'S ABOUT POWER, MONEY, AND CONSTITUTIONAL ...

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.

Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process? Having spent over a decade researching mining and oil sectors in Latin America, Thea Riofrancos is a leading voice on resource extraction. In Extraction, she draws on groundbreaking fieldwork on the global race for lithium.

They told us the Beast System was “future prophecy.” They were wrong. It’s already here. AI is watching. Digital ID is spreading. Governments and corporations are merging their data. And the world is being quietly funneled toward a single global system foretold long before our generation was born. The Beast System Is Here takes you inside the rise of a world-shaping network built through surveillance, biometrics, digital currency, and psychological manipulation. This isn’t theory. This isn’t guesswork. This is the real technology forming the foundation of what Scripture warned ...