Human Information

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...

Intellectual History for Modern Life: How Major Ideas from Philosophy, Science, and Culture Continue to Shape Contemporary Thinking BOOK 6: Information, Technology, and the Future of Thought: How Media, Data, and Artificial Intelligence Are Reshaping Human Thinking explores one of the most important intellectual shifts of the modern era: how the tools we use to store, share, and process information are changing the way human beings think. From the earliest forms of communication to artificial intelligence systems that now generate language and make decisions, this book traces the deep ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, true-life legal thriller about the government’s pursuit of billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen and his employees at SAC Capital—a revelatory look at the power and wealth of Wall Street ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times...

A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement “A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late. “In the spirit of Thomas Paine’s Revolution-era Common Sense, this manifesto challenges us to...

The Human Upgrade: How to Survive and Thrive in the Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence by HASE Fiero Your attention has been captured. Your focus has been hacked. Your humanity is being downgraded. Every buzz, ping, and scroll is not just a distraction. It is part of a vast, engineered system designed to keep you hooked, fragmented, and predictable. The result is a Silent Downgrade — the slow erosion of your ability to think deeply, choose freely, connect meaningfully, and act with sovereignty. But there is another path. In The Human Upgrade, HASE Fiero delivers the definitive field ...

A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact us Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms...

Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track...

The Forgotten Architect of the Information Age: The Life and Mind of Claude Shannon Long before smartphones, streaming, and artificial intelligence became everyday realities, a quiet genius laid the groundwork for the modern world—and few today know his name. Claude Shannon, the brilliant mind behind information theory, changed how humanity thinks, communicates, and invents. Without his ideas, the digital age would be unimaginable. Yet Shannon never sought fame. He lived a life defined not by ambition, but by curiosity, playfulness, and a relentless drive to understand the unseen patterns...

In a series of 11 essays, Kirk relates several issues to a common question: "Is the American Republic descending into decadence, or are the American people entering upon a renewal of belief and hope?"

The Focused Human explains why modern life feels exhausting even when nothing appears wrong. In a world shaped by artificial intelligence, algorithms, and constant digital pull, attention is kept in motion, energy is scattered, and direction weakens. This book treats attention not as a mindset or productivity skill, but as a physical process that consumes energy and organizes information. Drawing on principles from physics and information theory, it shows how sustained fragmentation destabilizes focus, identity, and meaning, and why effort alone fails to restore coherence. Rather than ...

This indispensable, comprehensive, and accessible reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Author Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage...

The cost of labor is the highest cost most organizations will face. In the safety program, the safety manager must spend money on the proper people to do each job and adequate management of those employees to get the most out of them. This short book provides essential information about human resources that every manager needs to know. The author has over twenty years of experience in safety mangement.

Who was the first to suggest there might be life beyond Earth? Which great mind began his career as a mercenary? And why was the Catholic Church the greatest enemy of the philosophers of old? Perfect for the perpetually curious, this book is a treasure trove of history, knowledge, and wisdom. Get to know more than 80 of humanity’s greatest minds, from ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle to modern-day thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, obscure facts, and captivating history, Great Stories About the Greatest Minds ...

The History of Classification Systems: How Humans Organize Knowledge, from Libraries to Biology to Algorithms is a deep, accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental yet overlooked forces shaping human thought. From the earliest survival based distinctions made by hunter gatherers to the complex digital systems that sort information, people, and behavior today, classification has always been central to how humans understand the world. This book traces how categories, taxonomies, and organizational systems evolved across history, revealing how knowledge itself has been shaped by ...

Now, in the face of the "Great Resignation" and "botsourcing," thought leaders Sanders and Wood present a more positive and promising scenario, where an enterprise recognizes human resources as an asset class that possesses skills that cannot be replaced by automation. Enlightened business leaders will look to create synergy between technology and people, enabling the organization to maximize its capabilities by elevating the basis of decision making with closer-to-perfect information and rationality.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Dobbs reconstructs the thrilling inside story of the climactic nuclear crisis of the Cold War, revealing the tension between “the human in the loop” and the algorithms that could trigger World War III. The year is 1983. Ronald Reagan is obsessed by...

A newer, expanded Second Edition is now available.** Click the author name or search title to find it. https://a.co/d/32uURs1 🎙️ "From Consumer of Information to Curator of Knowledge" – A Philosophical and Practical Manifesto Hello, fellow seekers of understanding. We are swimming in information. Every day, we're bombarded by headlines, tweets, videos, memes, emails, notifications, ads — a never-ending stream of digital noise. And for a while, we were content to just consume it all. Passively. Endlessly. Mindlessly. But that’s no longer enough. The next leap — the one that ...

Why would a casino try to stop a gambler from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted? Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used...