*BESTS BOOKS - TECH SAVVIES* : 2018

Soonish : Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and / or Ruin Everything : written by Kelly  and Zach Weinersmith.

Tackling serious topics with a light-hearted touch, SMBC cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and Dr Kelly Weinersmith to explore emerging technologies that might - wait for it - improve and / and or ruin everything.

It puts the lens on real and imagined technologies like augmented reality, space elevators, and fusion-powered toasters, why they could or couldn't work and the steps that would have to be taken to potentially realise them.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says the book provides insights into ''the most ambitious technological feats of our time?

Harnessing our Digital Future : Written by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfison .

The book, published by MIT researchers Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjofesson, is a must read for those in tech or business.

It focuses on how machine intelligence, products and platforms, and the ability to harness the crowd ate informing the future of business, including how and why industry incumbents are being disrupted by younger upstarts and why the wisdom of crowds is more important than ever.

Technically Wrong : Written by Sara Wachter-Boetttcher. Described by the journal Science as a ''call for resistance'', Technically Wrong Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, explores the human biases beyond the people who write code -

Ad how an extreme lack of diversity in Silicon Valley can lead to extremely unpleasant results baked into the  final software, including but not limited to  racial discrimination and sexism. [TechWorld].