Ranked: How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Does Digital Technology Modify Society?

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

General Application:

1. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew L. Ball
2. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett 
3. When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
4. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
5. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
6. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
7. Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature by Federico Faggin

Behavioral Modification:

1. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
2. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
3. 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:

1. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
2. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
3. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
4. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

History:

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

Information:

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

Learning:

1. [Upcoming] The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
2. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
3. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie
4. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
5. Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer

The Legal Perspective: 

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

Medical Practices:

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

Surveillance:

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

Surveillance / Fiction:

• A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley