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24 alternatives to Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

How machines effect humans in our hyperconnected world

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future▲67
Information technology will transform capitalism
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Race Against The Machine▲66
How the digital revolution is accelerating innovation!
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex▲67
How technology is shaping the future of human labor
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control▲67
Book on the hypergrowth of the past 5 decades
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Second Machine Age▲66
Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Platform Revolution ▲79
How networked markets are transforming the economy
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Rise of the Robots▲67
Technology and the threat of a jobless future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work▲64
A bold new manifesto for life after capitalism.
2016 · versobooks.com · its alternatives →
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Robot Overlordz - 224: Conscientious Futures▲66
Self-publishing, corporate sovereignty, and the future of AI
2015 · its alternatives →
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Humans Need Not Apply▲56
A new book on the future of work in the age of robots
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Age of Optimists▲60
Quantitative Glimpse of Tech's Political Endgame
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
12
Who Owns the Future?▲66
The concentration of money and power in our digital networks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
The Real World of Technology ▲62
The complex relationship between technology and society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
The Age of Spiritual Machines▲57
AI and achieving the singularity
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61
A new book on surviving the knowledge economy
2016 · softcontrol.us · its alternatives →
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Disrupting Digital Business▲111
Create an authentic experience in the peer-to-peer economy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Technopoly▲61
The surrender of culture to technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Life 3.0▲92
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age▲62
Digital Transparence and Expository Society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism▲67
A 360 degree look on the topic of Future of Work.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Big Data▲73
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work & Think
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations▲63
Critical thoughts on the internet and its effects on society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ▲61
An optimistic road map for the future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Deep Simplicity▲62
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