January 7, 2019

• Added review of Artificial Unintelligence to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

February 7, 2018

• Added review of The Strip to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

January 2, 2018

• Added review of Jade City the Science Fiction section.

November 18, 2017

• Added review of Null States to the Science Fiction section.

October 4, 2017

• Added review of Power-Up to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

August 7, 2017

• Added review of Tap to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 18, 2017

• Added review of The Chessboard and the Web to the Politics, International Affairs, and National Security section.

March 20, 2017

• Added review of Gravity's Kiss to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 17, 2017

• Added review of Driverless to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 7, 2016

• Added review of Infomocracy to the Science Fiction section.

May 26, 2016

• Added review of Quantified to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

January 2, 2016

• Added review of The Art of Language Invention to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

April 18, 2015

·    Added review of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

January 3, 2015

• Added review of Virtual Economies to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

November 22, 2014

• Added review of MOOCs to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 15, 2014

·    Added review of Grassroots for Hire to the Politics and National Security section.

August 31, 2014

• Added review of Cataloging the World to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

June 2, 2014

·    Added review of Prisoners, Lovers, & Spies to the Politics and National Security section.

April 17, 2014

·        Added review of Transborder Data Flows and Data Privacy Laws to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

February 18, 2014

• Added review of The Humor Code to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 3, 2014

• Added review of Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 22, 2014

·    Added review of Head Strong to the Politics and National Security section.

January 5, 2014

• Added review of Memes in Digital Culture to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

November 20, 2013

• Added review of Data Science for Business to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 25, 2013

• Added review of Love in the Time of Algorithms to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 1, 2013

·    Added review of The Gamble to the Politics and National Security section.

September 3, 2013

• Added review of Red Thread Thinking to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 18, 2013

• Added review of Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 26, 2013

• Added review of Moonwalking with Einstein to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 30, 2013

·    Added review of Ethics of Big Data to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

February 17, 2013

• Added review of The Physics of Wall Street to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 30, 2013

• Added review of Automate This to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

December 2, 2012

·   Added review of Addiction by Design to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

November 15, 2012

• Added review of Computing for Ordinary Mortals to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 29, 2012

• Added review of Interop to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 17, 2012

• Added review of Quiet to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 3, 2012

• Added review of Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

September 17, 2012

• Added review of Transnational Transfers and Global Development to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

August 26, 2012

·   Added review of The Data Journalism Handbook to the Politics and National Security section.

July 29, 2012

·   Added review of Significant Objects to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

June 27, 2012

• Added review of Jacked to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

June 2, 2012

• Added review of The Day the World Discovered the Sun to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 22, 2012

• Added review of The Essential Engineer to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

April 29, 2012 

·        Added review of Information and the Modern Corporation to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 15, 2012

·        Added review of Ready Player One to the Science Fiction section.

April 2, 2012

• Added review of Babel No More to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 21, 2012 

·        Added review of Space Chronicles to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

March 7, 2012

• Added review of Distrust That Particular Flavor to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 22, 2012

• Added review of The Quantum Universe to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 8, 2012 

·        Added review of Liars and Outliers to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

December 15, 2011 

·        Added review of Intellectual Property Strategy to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 23, 2011

·        Added review of Privacy and Big Data to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

October 6, 2011

·        Added review of Better Than Human to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

September 11, 2009

·        Added review of Complexity: A Guided Tour to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 29, 2009

·        Added review of This is Not a Game to the Science Fiction section.

 January 2, 2009

 ·        Added review of Trust Me to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

 September 15, 2008

·        Added review of The Numerati to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 13, 2008

 ·        Added review of Microsoft 2.0 to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

 November 28, 2006

• Added review of The E-Bomb to the International Affairs and National Security section.

September 5, 2006

• Added review of The Silicon Eye to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 17, 2006

• Added review of The Wisdom of Crowds to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 8, 2006

• Added review of The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 17, 2006

• Added review of A Left-Hand Turn Around the World to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

February 19, 2006

• Added review of Stargazer to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

January 18, 2006

• Added review of Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

November 24, 2005

• Added review of Creating the Twentieth Century to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

August 9, 2005

• Added review of The Flight of the Creative Class to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 5, 2005

• Added review of Why Globalization Works to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 10, 2005

• Added review of Why People Believe Weird Things to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

March 7, 2005

• Added review of Revolution in the Valley to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

February 9, 2005

• Added review of The Tipping Point to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

January 9, 2005

• Added review of Islands in the Clickstream to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

December 8, 2004

• Added review of The European Dream to the International Affairs & National Security section.

September 17, 2004

• Added review of The Digital Sublime to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.
• Moved to an irregular update schedule due to increased writing load.

August 1, 2004

• Added review of Entanglement to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

July 1, 2004

• Added review of The Bug to the Science Fiction section.

April 26, 2004

• Added review of Taking Chances to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

April 19, 2004

• Added review of Raw Spirit to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 29, 2004

• Added review of Hiding the Elephant to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 15, 2004

• Added review of Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information to the International Affairs & National Security section.

March 8, 2004

• Added review of Eastern Standard Tribe to the Science Fiction section.

March 1, 2004

• Added review of Singularity Sky to the Science Fiction section.

February 23, 2004

• Added review of Apple Confidential 2.0 to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 9, 2004

• Added review of Masters of Doom to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 2, 2004

• Added a new page with a daily news item from Randy Cassingham's This Is True newsletter. There are free and premium editions of This is True, but the premium edition only costs $20 a year. I encourage everyone to subscribe...it's hilarious!

February 1, 2004

• Added review of Online! The Book to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 26, 2004

• Added review of Hacking Matter to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 19, 2004

• Added review of Spying with Maps to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

January 12, 2004

• Added review of Black Ice to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 5, 2004

• Added review of The Best of The Joy of Tech to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

December 15, 2003

• Added review of Bringing Down the House to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

December 8, 2003

• Added review of The Myth of Homeland Security to the International Affairs & National Security section.

December 1, 2003

• Added review of The New Ruthless Economy to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

November 24, 2003

• Added review of The Ambient Century to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

November 10, 2003

• Added review of Envisioning Information to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

November 3, 2003

• Added review of Beyond Fear to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 27, 2003

• Added review of Click On Democracy to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 20, 2003

• Added review of High Tech Harvest to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

October 6, 2003

• Added review of The Soft Cage to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

September 29, 2003

• Added review of Customer-Driven IT to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

September 22, 2003

• Added review of Clocks and Culture to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

September 15, 2003

• Added review of Artifacts to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

September 8, 2003

• Added review of A Network Orange to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

September 1, 2003

• Added review of Signor Marconi's Magic Box to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

August 1, 2003

• Went on vacation for the month of August. The next review will be up on September 1, 2003.
• Fixed link below to Natural-Born Cyborgs.

July 28, 2003

• Added review of Working the Room to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

July 21, 2003

• Added review of Natural-Born Cyborgs to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

July 7, 2003

• Added review of Unlocking the Clubhouse to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.
• Added a link to darwinmag.com on the News page.

June 30, 2003

• Added review of Hiding In Plain Sight to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 23, 2003

• Added review of From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog - A History of the Software Industry to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 16, 2003

• Added review of The Mac is Not a Typewriter to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.
• Added ChangeNotes update service link to the bottom left corner of the index page.

June 9, 2003

• Added review of How Would You Move Mount Fuji? to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 2, 2003

• Added review of Dark Fiber to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

May 26, 2003

• Added review of Gonzo Marketing to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 19, 2003

• Added review of Persuasive Technology to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 5, 2003

• Added review of Exploring the Matrix to the Science Fiction section.

April 28, 2003

• Added review of Making Markets to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 21, 2003

• Added review of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom to the Science Fiction section.

April 7, 2003

• Added review of Flesh and Machines to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

March 31, 2003

• Added review of The Bride of Science to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 24, 2003

• Added review of Lords of the Harvest to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

March 17, 2003

• Added review of Pause & Effect to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

March 3, 2003

• Added review of World Without Secrets to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

February 24, 2003

• Added review of Faster Than the Speed of Light to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

February 17, 2003

• Added review of Pattern Recognition to the Science Fiction section.

February 10, 2003

• Added review of Be Careful Who You SLAPP to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

February 3, 2003

• Added review of Web Privacy with P3P to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

January 20, 2003

• Added review of Wireless Nation to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

January 13, 2003

• Added review of What Just Happened to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

January 6, 2003

• Added review of Microchip to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

December 30, 2002

• Added review of The Medium of the Video Game to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

December 16, 2002

• Added review of Rebel Code to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

December 9, 2002

• Added review of Ruling the Root to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

December 2, 2002

• Added review of Smart Mobs to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

November 25, 2002

• Added review of Robo sapiens to the Ethics, Rhetoric, & Metaphysics section.

November 11, 2002

• Added review of The Art of Deception to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

November 4, 2002

• Added review of The Clustered World to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 28, 2002

• Added review of The Perfect Store to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

October 21, 2002

• Added review of Envisioning Cyberspace to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 7, 2002

• Added review of Netocracy to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

September 29, 2002

• Added review of Secrets and Lies to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

September 22, 2002

• Added review of The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information to the International Affairs & National Security section.

September 15, 2002

• Added review of The Internet and Society to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

September 8, 2002

• Added review of Small Pieces Loosely Joined to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

August 25, 2002

• Added review of Netspionage to the International Affairs & National Security section.

August 18, 2002

• Added review of Digital Babylon to the Ethics, Rhetoric, & Metaphysics section.

August 11, 2002

• Added review of Scrolling Forward to the Ethics, Rhetoric, & Metaphysics section.

August 4, 2002

• Added review of Platform Leadership to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 28, 2002

• Added review of net_condition to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

July 17, 2002

• Added review of Cloning Silicon Valley to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 9, 2002

• Added review of Free as in Freedom to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

July 2, 2002

• Added review of Inside the XBox to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

June 24, 2002

• Added review of The Myth of the Paperless Office to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

June 17, 2002

• Added review of The Digital Divide to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

June 10, 2002

• Added review of Trigger Happy to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

June 2, 2002

• Added review of Our Posthuman Future to the Ethics, Rhetoric & Metaphysics section.

May 26, 2002

• Added review of Information Warfare to the International Affairs & National Security section.

May 19, 2002

• Added review of Beyond Our Control? to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.
• Added link to previously published review of Manifold: Time to the Science Fiction section.

May 12, 2002

• Added review of Web Content Management to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

May 5, 2002

• Added review of The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of to the Science Fiction section.
• Added review of The Player of Games to the Science Fiction section.

April 29, 2002

• Added review of The Invisible Future to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 22, 2002

• Added review of Web Word Wizardry to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

April 15, 2002

• Added review of Macintosh... the Naked Truth to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

April 8, 2002

• Added review of The Difference Engine to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

April 1, 2002

• Added review of Resisting the Virtual Life to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.
• Brought four new writers on board and began weekly publication schedule!

March 6, 2002

• Added review of Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

February 14, 2002

• Added page listing reviews by publisher, which can be found on the Publishers page.
• Updated formatting of the review of The Economics of Electronic Commerce.

February 6, 2002

• Added review of Metacity/Datatown to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

November 27, 2001

• Added review of Cyberliteracy to the Ethics, Rhetoric, & Metaphysics section.

November 5, 2001

• Added review of The Laws of the Web to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

October 11, 2001

• Added review of Common Knowledge to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

September 7, 2001

• Added review of Digital Places to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

May 2, 2001

• Added review of 101 Things You Need to Know About Internet Law to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

March 28, 2001

• Added review of Crypto to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

March 6, 2001

• Added review of Internet Publishing and Beyond to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

November 30, 2000

• Added review of The China Threat to the International Affairs and National Security section.

October 6, 2000

• Added review of Leading the Revolution to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

August 21, 2000

• Added review of Cyberselfish to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

August 3, 2000

• Added review of Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce to the Commerce, Security, & the Law section.

July 15, 2000

• Added review of The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

June 23, 2000

• Added review of The Age of Access to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

June 9, 2000

• Added review of Has Feminism Changed Science? to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

April 20, 2000

• Added review of Database Nation to the Privacy & Individual Rights section.

March 29, 2000

• Added review of Building a Bridge to the 18th Century to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

March 6, 2000

• Added review of Manifold: Time.

January 1, 2000

• Added review of The Metropolis of To-morrow to the Net Culture, Art, & Literature section.

December 18, 1999

• Partial debut of new site design.
• Added review of Harvard Business School Press on Managing High-Tech Industries to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

August 18, 1998

• Added review of The Death of Distance to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

July 29, 1998

• Added review of The Transparent Society to the Privacy and Individual Rights section.

July 22, 1998

• Added review of Becoming Virtual to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

July 18, 1998

• Added review of Internet Besieged to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

July 14, 1998

• Added review of Network & Netplay to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

July 10, 1998

• Added review of Virtual Private Networks to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

July 1, 1998

• Added review of Strategic Information Warfare to the International Affairs and National Security section.

June 22, 1998

• Added review of Data Smog to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

June 15, 1998

• Added review of Blur to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

June 7, 1998

• Added review of Corporate Espionage to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

May 27, 1998

• Added review of Growing Up Digital to the Net Culture section.

May 22, 1998

• Added review of Computer Money to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

May 16, 1998

• Added International Affairs and National Security section.
• Added review of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism to the International Affairs and National Security section.

May 15, 1998

• Added review of Technology, R&D, and the Economy to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

May 10, 1998

• Inaugurated the TECHSOC-L mailing list!
• Added review of Net Gain to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

May 4, 1998

• Added review of The Soft Edge to the Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

April 21, 1998

• Added review of Web Site Stats to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

April 14, 1998

• Added essay on Iain M. Banks' The Player of Games to the Science Fiction and Society section.

April 12, 1998

• Added review of The State of the Net to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

April 1, 1998

• Added review of The Economics of Electronic Commerce to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

March 26, 1998

• Added review of Privacy on the Line to the Privacy and Individual Rights section.

March 11, 1998

• Added review of Hamlet on the Holodeck to the Net Culture section.

March 5, 1998

• Added review of Cyberwars to the Commerce, Security, and the Law section.

February 25, 1998

• Added editorial Who Needs a Stacked Deck?

February 21, 1998

• Added review of Persuasion and Privacy to Ethics, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics section.

February 15, 1998

• Opening Day!!!