The numbers that tell the story of humanity

'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.

Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.

A new approach to structuring a business to support strategy and maximise efficiency.

A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world

The untold story of the writers and philosophers who took on the United States government for its war in Vietnam

Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and controlling your behaviour. Under surveillance capitalism you are not the customer or even the product: you are the raw material.

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.

Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before.

How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baillie Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb