• Understand the challenge to a divided America
• What computer science is all about
• History surveillance techniques in the USA
• Forgotten pioneers of the Internet
• The human dimension of writing computer code
• Why everything feels terrible right now
• The history of information-knowledge
• Books critiquing advertising and the popular culture
• Navigating the road to the good life
• Fantasy/sci-fi saving, ending, and starting worlds
• Dream projects in theater and film
• Steve Jobs and the history of Apple Inc.
• Classic science fiction that bear re-re-reading
• Fantasy that has a spiritual theme
• The origins of the tech industry
• That will inspire you to build your own cabin or nature home
• Science fiction about investigations and discovery
• The hidden costs of city-building