Digital Literacy
Think clearly in the age of AI, algorithms, and information overload.
- 14 Books
- 82 Insights
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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AI 2041Open book
Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
The future of AI is neither automatic utopia nor automatic collapse. It is institutional design under pressure.
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AI SuperpowersOpen book
Kai-Fu Lee
AI will automate many jobs, but it cannot automate what it means to be human. Our task is to double down on our humanity.
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3
Everybody LiesOpen book
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The truth is not always what people say in public. It is often what they search for in private.
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Life 3.0Open book
Max Tegmark · 2017
Before asking what intelligence could do, ask what we would want it to make possible.
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Life After GoogleOpen book
George Gilder
The post-Google future begins when trust stops being rented from platforms and starts being verified at the edges.
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New Dark AgeOpen book
James Bridle
The new dark age begins when we mistake prediction for knowledge and convenience for freedom.
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Radical TechnologiesOpen book
Adam Greenfield
The real question is not whether technology is radical. It is whether ordinary people still get to contest the world it makes ordinary.
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The Future Is Faster Than You ThinkOpen book
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
The future feels sudden only when you miss the compounding signals that made it inevitable.
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The Future of the MindOpen book
Michio Kaku
The future of the mind is not a gadget story. It is the story of private experience becoming a public technology.
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The Industries of the FutureOpen book
Alec Ross
The future is not something to predict from a distance. It is something to read in the industries already rearranging power.
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Algorithms to Live ByOpen book
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 2016
A good algorithm does not make life mechanical. It gives judgment a sharper edge and anxiety a smaller job.
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FactfulnessOpen book
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund · 2018
The goal is not to feel hopeful. It is to become harder to fool.
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Show Your Work!Open book
Austin Kleon · 2014
Do not wait to be discovered; become useful in public.
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Building a Second BrainOpen book
Tiago Forte · 2022
A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.
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