SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGIES – WIRING SOCIAL CHANGE

Stefania Milan explores the interplay between social movements and their ‘liberated technologies’. Milan analyses the rise of low-power radio stations and radical Internet projects (‘emancipatory communication practices’) as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. The book provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and technology.

BREAKPOINT – WHY THE WEB WILL IMPLODE, SEARCH WILL BE OBSOLETE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IS IN YOUR BRAIN

Jeff Stibel shows how the brain can act as a guide to understanding the future of the Internet and the constellation of businesses and technologies that run on it. The book shows how leaders are using artifi cial intelligence to remake Internet and how startups like oDesk and Kickstarter are using crowd-sourcing to create something larger and ‘smarter’ than the sum of their parts.

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TAX, LIES AND RED TAPE

Dawie Roodt and Linette Retief argue that economics is not about numbers, graphs and statistics; it is about people, and about how they react to incentives. The book debunks politically correct thinking and current government policy, and suggests alternatives for a more effective system. Tax, Lies and Red Tape is an insightful, easy-to-understand, opinionated book about economics in South Africa.