Plato and the nerd: the creative partnership of humans and technology (mit press)

Popular books about the philosophy of science abound with fascinating topics like what are time, matter, and energy, and how evolution can produce consciousness. But if you look for popular books on philosophy of technology, you find a smattering of treatises on the transition from hunter-gatherers to agrarian societies and on the industrial revolution. My book, Plato and the Nerd [3], is about is about the firestorm of digital, computational technology that is creating artificial intelligences and is changing the nature of work. It is about what is happening to us now.