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Books like The Technological Society

What to read after The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul: 24 titles sharing themes of Social Aspects, History & Theory, Sociology, and Technology & Engineering, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Top related books to The Technological Society

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to The Technological Society.

Future Politics Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Jamie Susskind

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

Mother of Invention How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Katrine Marçal

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

Doppelganger A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Sociology

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

David B. Morris

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

New Power How It’s Changing the Course of the 21st Century – and Why You Need to Know

Jeremy Heimans

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

Digital Ethics Research & Practice

Don Heider

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

Moving Data The IPhone and the Future of Media

Pelle Snickars

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

System Error Where Big Tech Went Wrong and how We Can Reboot

Rob Reich

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society

Daniel Lee Kleinman

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#10

Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets

Jeff Horwitz

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#11

The Age of AI And Our Human Future

Henry Kissinger

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#12

AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#13

Ways of Knowing Cities

Laura Kurgan

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#14

The Ecology of Freedom The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

Murray Bookchin

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#15

Science, Technology and Society New Directions

Andrew Webster

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#16

The Chaos Machine The Inside Story of how Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Max Fisher

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#17

The Digital Factory The Human Labor of Automation

Moritz Altenried

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#18

Context

Cory Doctorow

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#19

Liberation Technology Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy

Larry Diamond

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

#20

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Scott Shapiro

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#21

Posting it The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

Catherine Golden

Themes: Social Aspects • Sociology • Technology & Engineering

#22

Physics and Politics Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society

Walter Bagehot

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

#23

Knowledge and Power The Information Theory of Capitalism

George Gilder

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

#24

Like a Thief in Broad Daylight Power in the Era of Post-humanity — Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Zizek

Themes: Social Aspects • History & Theory • Technology & Engineering

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Social Aspects, History & Theory, Sociology — the same threads that run through The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. Among the authors featured: Jamie Susskind, Katrine Marçal, Naomi Klein, David B. Morris, and others.