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Books that deal with modern technology? 2016-03-09 13:31:10 Post No. 7791627
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I want to read some recent books that address technology as we experience it today. Not like "White Noise": something that deals with technology in the smartphone era directly and reflects the way we actually interact with it. Too many books depict people's lives and just leave out any reference to the fact that we're hugely affected by new, specifically 21st-century technology (specificially smatphones, constant internet access, texting) in everything we do.
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2121 by Susan Greenfield.
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Bleeding Edge, although it's set in 2001, he's speaking directly to 2016 politicized meme-culture.
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Tao Lin has a lot of Google Mail chatting, but he doesn't really explore it
Evgeny Morozov writes nonfiction critical of the Internet hype
Cory Doctorow writes a lot of YA about networked kids, but he can't think straight
I second Bleeding Edge, IMHO yet the best novel about the Internet
Stay away from Eggers' The Circle, it's turbodumb. It purports itself to be *the* Internet novel, but it's just clichés from some guy who's read about the Internet in his newspaper
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