How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?

This is a list of books that discuss how society responds to technological changes.  

General Application:

• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin

Behavioral Modification:

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Consequences and Changes:

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

History:

• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

Information:

• [Upcoming] The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes

Learning:

• The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
• Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
• Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver

The Legal Perspective: 

• Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk by James Bessen , Michael Meurer
• Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin, and David K. Levine

Medical Practices:

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Surveillance:

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier

Surveillance / Fiction:

• [Upcoming] A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley