Books
The Coming Internet Depression: Why the High-Tech Boom Will Go Bust, Why the Crash Will Be Worse Than You Think, and How to Prosper Afterward by Michael J. Mandel.
Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo H. Galeano.
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks.
Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian
Culture of High Tech
by Paulina Borsook.
Paulina's Unofficial Fan Website
Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of
Happiness
by Roger Rosenblatt, Jane Smiley, Bharati Mukherjee (Editors).
Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen.
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
by Michael H. Shuman.
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All
of Life Is a Paid-For Experience
by Jeremy Rifkin.
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid.
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig.
The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know by Andrew L. Shapiro.
The Internet Edge: Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World by Mark J. Stefik.
The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality by Reg Whitaker.
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century by Simson Garfinkel.
The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America by Jeffrey Rosen.
Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet by Robert Ellis Smith.
Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption by Winn Schwartau.
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck.
The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Shutkin, David Brower (foreword).
You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as Though Ecology Mattered by Eric, Ph.D. Davidson, Eric A. Davidson, George M. Woodwell.
Hollow City: Gentrification and the Eviction of Urban Culture by Rebecca Solnit, Susan Schwartzenberg.
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Resources
FOE SUV info link - Join the RoadHog reduction campaign.
New Village Magazine: Building Sustainable Cultures
Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
KnowNet Initiative
- "The advances in information and communication technology, is re-structuring the global social economic equation - shifting from income divide to knowledge divide ... "
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