Recommended Books
This page contains the books we list as references in the book.
Introduction:
● Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America's Most Notorious Lobbyist Abramoff, Jack, 2011, WND Books
● Careless People: a Story of where I used to work. Power. Greed. Madness. Wynn-Williams, Sarah, 2025, MacMillan Publishing
● The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online Aiken, Mary, 2016, John Murray Publishers, UK
● Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that addicted America Mack, Beth, 2018, Apollo Books
● Man disconnected Zimbardo, Philip, and Coulombe, Nikita, 2015, Penguin Random House UK
● Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Oreskes, Naomi, and Conway, Erik M., 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing
● Unwired: gaining control over addictive technologies Bernstein, Gaia, 2023, Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 1:
● AI, The Coming Wave Suleman, Mustafa and Bhaskar, Michael, 2023, Penguin Random House UK
● Future Shock Toffler, Alvin, 1970, Random House Inc.
● The anxious generation Haidt, Johnathan, 2024, Penguin Random House UK
Chapter 2:
● Facebook: The Inside Story Levy, Steven, 2020, Penguin Random House UK
● La fabrique du crétin digital: Les dangers des écrans pour nos enfents Desmurget, Michel, 2019, Éditions du Seuil
● Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination Bergen, Mark, 2022, Penguin Random House UK
● The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage and fear in cyber age Sanger, David E., 2018, Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
● The Power of One: Blowing the whistle on Facebook Haugen, Frances, 2023, Hodder & Stoughton
● An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination Frenkel, Sheera, and Kang, Cecilia, 2021, The Bridge Street Press
● Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life Ormerod, Katherine, 2018, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd
● Your face belongs to us: The secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy Hill, Kashmir, 2023, Simon & Schuster
Chapter 3:
● The Brain: The Story of You Eagleman, David, 2014, Canongate Books
● Demenza Digitale Spitzer, Manfred, 2012, Corbaccio
● Le cerveau en action Desmurget, Michel, 1997, Presses Universitaires de France
● Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain Eagleman, David, 2020, Canongate Books Ltd
● The idea of a Brain: A History Cobel, Mathew, 2020, Profile Books Ltd.
● The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses Leschziner, Dr. Guy, 2022, Simon & Schuster UK
Chapter 4:
● Addiction by design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Schull, Natasha Dow, 2012, Princeton University Press
● Dopamine Nation Lembke, Anna, 2021, Headline Publishing Group
● Hooked: How to build Habit-Forming Products Eyal, Nir, 2014, Penguin Random House UK
Chapter 5:
● Media Violence and Children: A complete Guide for Parents and Professionals Gentle, Douglas, 2014, Praeger
● Outrage Machine Rose-Stockwell, Tobias, 2023, Piatkus
● Article: Pedophilia Seto, Michael C., 2009, Annual Review of Clinical Phsycology
● The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember Carr, Nicholas, 2010, Atlantic Books
● Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Sciend of Addiction Wilson, Gary, 2017, Commonwealth Publishing
● Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality Dines, Gail, 2010, Beacon Press, Boston
Chapter 6:
● Attention Span Mark, Gloria, 2023, Harper-Collins
● Demenza Digitale Spitzer, Manfred, 2012, Corbaccio
● Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life Eyal, Nir, 2019, Bloomsburg Publishing Plc
● La fabrique du crétin digital: Les dangers des écrans pour nos enfents Desmurget, Michel, 2019, Éditions du Seuil
● The power of One: Blowing the whistle on Facebook Haugen, Frances, 2023, Hodder & Stoughton
● Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Explore How Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber Clement, Joe and Miles, Matt, 2018, Black Inc
● Teachers and Machines: The Classroom of Technology since 1920 Cuban, Larry, 1986, Teachers College Press
● 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World Twenge, Jean, 2025, Penguin
Chapter 7:
● Behind the screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media Roberts, Sarah T., 2019, Yale University Press
● The New Childhood: Raising kids to thrive in a digitally connected world Shapiro, Jordan, 2018, Little, Brown Spark
Chapter 8:
● Alone Together: Why we expect more from Technology and less from each other Turkle, Sherry, 2011, Basic Books, New York
● The Experience Machine: How our minds predict and shape reality Clark, Andy, 2023, Penguin Random House UK
● The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate Seargent, Philip, 2023, Bloomsbury
● How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information Cairo, Alberto, 2023, W.W. Norton & Company
● Mind Change: How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains Grenfield, Susan, 2014, Ebury Publishing
● Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know Sunstein, Cass R., 2020, The MIT Press
Chapter 9:
● AI and Ethics, adopting AI technology without loosing our humanity Sessions, Joe, 2026, Abundance Solutions
● A new history of modern computing Haigh, Thomas & Ceruzzi, Paul E., 2021, The MIT Press.
● The age of A.I. and our human future Kissinger, Henry A.; Schmidt, Eric; & Huttenlocher, Daniel, 2021, John Murray Publishers
● The AI con Bender, Emily M, & Hanna, Alex, 2025, Penguin Random House UK
● Empire of AI, inside the reckless race for total domination Hao, Karen, 2025, Penguin Random House, UK
● Genesis, Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit Kissinger, Henry A.; Mundie, Craig; & Schmidt, Eric, 2024, John Murray Publishers
● The Means of prediction. How AI really works (and Who Benefits) Kasy, Maximilian, 2025, The University of Chicago Press.
● The Science of Learning, second edition Watson, Edward & Busch, Bradley, 2021, Routledge
Chapter 10:
● The Balanced Brain: The science of Mental Health Nord, Camilla, 2022, Penguin Books
● Growing up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World Heitner, Devorah, 2023, Penguin Random House LLC
● Privacy is Power: Why and How you should take back control of your data Veliz, Carissa, 2020, Penguin Random House UK