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24 alternatives to Turn of the Century

A penetrating eye on our media-obsessed era

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Turn of the Century launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Understanding Media▲70

   The Extensions of Man

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Rise of the Creative Class▲68

   A somewhat controversial but hugely influential book

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   How We Listen Now▲63

   Essays and conversations about music and technology

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Second Machine Age▲66

   Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Dark Net▲62

   A revelatory examination of the internet

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Envisioning Information▲87

   A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67

   Where the big ideas of the modern era came from

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   How We Got To Now▲64

   Six innovations that made the modern world

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Textual Poachers▲61

    A canonical text of media studies

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    The Sovereign Individual▲77

    Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Tubes▲54

    A Journey to the Center of the Internet

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    100 Plus (AMA LIVE NOW)▲98

    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    The Master Switch▲71

    : The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Technopoly▲61

    The surrender of culture to technology

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Black Swan▲80

    The impact of the highly improbable

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Typewriter Revolution▲65

    A typist's companion for the 21st century

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    What the Dormouse Said▲55

    How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Age Of Context▲57

    The increasing importance of context in tech and our lives

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    We Need Diverse Books▲87

    Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives

    2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    The Folded Clock▲70

    Diary of a modern writer

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77

    Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The New Digital Age▲59

    In the next decade, 5 bil new people will join the Internet

    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 →

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