Books That Changed How You Think About Technology

[CaptainStatic56]

Not technical books necessarily. Books that gave you a framework, a metaphor, a historical parallel, or a way of thinking about technology and its effects that stuck with you and changed how you see things.

Could be fiction, history, sociology, philosophy, biography, anything. One recommendation with a sentence on what it changed.

[Totally]

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Whether or not you buy the neuroscience argument, the historical section on how previous reading technologies changed cognition is genuinely unsettling in the context of what comes next