Internet Age

Your economic life expectancy is shrinking. This is not a recession. It is a phase transition. Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and Intelligent Internet, calls this the Intelligence Inversion: a new age where artificial intelligence turns human intellect into an abundant commodity. That single shift is cracking the old engines of work, money, and meaning that were built on scarcity. Our dashboards show record profits, while daily life shows a loss of purpose. The gap signals a paradigm collapse. Mostaque argues we have a finite window, the Thousand-Day Window, to choose among three ...

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control." —David Mitchell “A testament to the...

Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Step into the heart of internet horror with Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories, an anthology featuring the first 50 chilling tales submitted to the viral Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. These aren’t just stories, they’re warnings. Whispers. Glitches in the veil between what we imagine and what waits in the dark. These stories are unearthed from inboxes, shaped in sleep paralysis, and shared with trembling hands. Whether you're a fan of Creepypasta lore or ...

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

A seismic shift is underway—one that will redefine work, value, and even what it means to be human. Artificial Intelligence is not just disrupting industries—it’s beginning to outperform humans in areas once considered exclusively ours: complex reasoning, creativity, even emotional...

From Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, the duo behind #IMomSoHard, comes a hilarious, heartfelt guide to navigating the chaos of raising middle schoolers while experiencing the wild ride of midlife—a much-needed survival guide for every mom who’s suddenly wondering “what the hell is...

Bloomsbury presents The Gutenberg Parenthesis written and read by Jeff Jarvis. PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of...

An immersive, pulse-pounding exposé on the global rise of teenage hackers, offering an insider's portrait of the dark net and the key players who are disrupting corporations, government institutions and our everyday lives—for fans of Bad Blood and Uncanny Valley Julius Kivimaki, aka Zeekill...

Penny Aldrich has exactly one task left: return the lake house key to Garrett White, her ex-boyfriend's father. She's completing an errand. She is not supposed to cry in the lobby of a Manhattan law firm, not supposed to sit across that desk from those dark winter-water eyes, and absolutely not supposed to say the word that falls out of her mouth before she can stop it. Garrett White is forty-eight, silver-templed, built like certainty in an Italian suit. He has dissolved a hundred marriages across that desk. He knows what he's looking at when someone walks in with two years of trying-too-...

With insights into the cyclical nature of innovation and the indomitable spirit of human ingenuity, Bandwidth is a powerful saga that shines a light on how history may be repeating itself as the AI, quantum, and blockchain Boom cycle is taking hold.

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it. It’s a signal paradox of...

With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age. We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no...

'A masterclass in how the internet actually works, written by someone who built it up, watched it break, and refuses to give up on it. Essential reading for anyone who lives online. Which is to say, everyone.' Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Senior Correspondent 'A front row seat on big-tech chaos...

The evidence was never hidden. That is what makes these stories so hard to shake. A wooden automaton beat Napoleon at chess by throwing open its doors and inviting the room to look inside. A truck that could only roll downhill was briefly worth more than Ford. A single drop of blood at a pharmacy counter told a healthy woman she was losing her child, while the nine-billion-dollar company behind the test said nothing. Two twelve-year-old girls walked into the woods to kill their best friend for a monster a bored man had invented in one evening on a forum. True stories of fraud, forgery and ...

An eye-opening look at the small communities of propagandists revolutionizing politics, culture, and society. “Essential and riveting reading.” —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation Invisible Rulers is about a profound transformation in power and influence that is altering our...

A gripping investigation into how pornography shaped the internet – and then transformed us all This is the story of one of the most influential – and least examined – industries on earth. Worth billions of dollars, and commanding a tenth of global internet traffic at peak times, it has...

Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations) “Part John le...

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.” —Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic In Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine...

Three Journeys to Patagonia tells the story of Nick Green's love affair with Latin America: it charts his progress backpacking the subcontinent as a teenager, as an aspiring travel writer in his twenties, and later as a confirmed adventurer and Patagonia aficionado in his thirties. Nick tells the story of how once Patagonia had come into his life in 1991, it remained in his consciousness, compelling him to read around the subject, to study it, and to visit the region again and again. Three Journeys to Patagonia asks why so many travellers have experienced the same overwhelming emotions and ...