The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)

Who Owns the Future?

Jaron Lanier · 411 pages

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks. Lanier has predicted how technology will transform our humanity for decades, and his insight has never been more urgently ne

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

Matthew L. Ball · 352 pages

The Industries of the Future

Alec J. Ross · 304 pages

"Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them. While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor on Innovation, he traveled to forty-one countries. He visited some of the toughest places in

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

Chris Anderson

The New York Times bestselling author heralds the future of business in Free.In his revolutionary bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving thi

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman · 600 pages

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes

The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Gene Kim · 443 pages

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 224 pages

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological st

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams · 337 pages

An updated edition of the national bestseller—now with a new introduction and a new chapterToday, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collecti

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy · 424 pages

Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers. Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indi

What Would Google Do ?: What Would Google Do?

Jeff Jarvis · 257 pages

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do?In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google — the fastest-growing company in history — to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove · 224 pages

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone · 384 pages

This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disrup

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Clay Shirky · 334 pages

An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler · 328 pages

The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

Jeffrey E. Garten · 320 pages

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 320 pages

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joichi Ito, Jeff Howe · 327 pages

Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy

Robert Scoble, Shel Israel · 248 pages

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Daniel H. Pink · 272 pages

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulf

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal · 242 pages

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern unlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model - a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project.

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Kevin Kelly · 336 pages

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

William McDonough, Michael Braungart · 208 pages

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing

Lisa Gansky · 257 pages

Mesh companies use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright. This is your guide to the next wave of commerce-- that's also improving our planet.