Most Interesting Books of 2006
Future Hype
The Myths of Technology Change
by Bob Seidensticker
Published by Berrett-Koehler
When Neil Postman, the author of Technopoly, passed away in 2003, I wondered who would take up the torch to question how each new technology effects our lives. With his background in the technology industry, Bob Seidensticker is pre-eminently qualified to help us think about these brave new worlds. This book dispels dozens of myths, slogans and catch-phrases about technological change that we take for granted, but may in fact be false. Seidensticker steers a valuable course between the neo-Luddites who smash computers, and the technological utopians who uncritically praise every new advance.
— Michael Pastore
