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Discussion of the Best Tech+Society Books of 2022
December 14, 2022 | 7:15-8:30 p.m. CST | Event Type: Online, Discussion
Event Type: Online, Discussion

Location

Online via Zoom

Moderator

Julie Tomlin
VP Finance & HR
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Frontier Marketplaces
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The Austin Forum online book discussions--and new activity inspired by our adoption of Zoom and desire to include anyone regardless of location--have been a big success! For this month's online discussion, instead of discussing, dissecting, and debating the societal implications of technology in one book, we'll ask everyone to share their favorite recent books on technology & society topics. Read anything great lately on cybersecurity, AI, climate tech, health tech/biotech, IoT/edge computing, cloning, alternate energy sources, etc.? Join us and share, or just listen in to collect reading ideas from others in our great community!​

​The Austin Forum on Technology & Society's final event of 2022 was an online discussion of the best books community members had read this year with information, context, and/or perspectives on technology and society. The list includes both non-fiction and fiction books published over a range of 70 years though most are very recent. 

Many thanks to Julie Tomlin for running a great discussion and suggesting several books I am eager to read. We'd also like to thank all the participants who suggested books: Ian Ang, Bonny Kelly, Erik Summa, Mike Ignatowski, Luz Gonzales, Yasir Iqbal, and Hani Elshahawi. 

Non-fiction
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson
​Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World, by Joseph Menn
Lifespan, by David Sinclair
How Music and Mathematics Relate, by David Kung
How Music Got Free, by Stephen Witt
Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark
Stand Out of Our Light, by James Williams
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
Tetris: The Games People Play, by Box Brown
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, by Byron Reese
The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Fuzzy & the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the World, by Scott Hartley 
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, by Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel
The New Map - Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, by Daniel Yergin
The Patient Will See You Now, by Eric Topol
The Pleasures of Philosophy, by Will Durant
Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O'Neill
What we Owe the Future, by William MacAskill

Fiction
AI 2041, by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Blueshift, by Joshua Dalzelle,
Klara & the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Level 7, by Mordecai Roshwald
Off to Be the Wizard, by Scott Meyer
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Station 11, by Emily St John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St John Mandel
The In Between, by Michael Landweber
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
We Are Legion (We Are Bob), by Dennis Taylor

Moderator

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Julie Tomlin
VP Finance & HR
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Frontier Marketplaces
Julie Tomlin is a 25-year veteran of the Finance/HR world. Currently, she is devoting her time to CVEX, an Austin-based fintech startup and proud sponsor of Austin Forum.  Julie fell in love with James T. Kirk at the age of 6 and has been an irredeemable sci-fi nerd ever since. She is thrilled to boldly lead the AF SciFi Book Club where no book club has gone before. ​

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