{"product_id":"9780300165654","title":"The Best Technology Writing 2010","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When the Best Technology Writing series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Now they define our 21st-century lives. As Julian Dibbell writes in his introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Best Technology Writing 2010, \u003c\/i\u003e“The digital is us. Yet for that reason, it is also something more, a lightning rod for our feelings about technology in general.”  Whether it is Sam Anderson’s giddy but troubled defense of online distractions, David Carr’s full-throated elegy to the dying world of pre-digital publishing, Steven Johnson’s warm appreciation of Twitter’s bite-size contributions to collective human intelligence, or Evan Ratliff’s fascinating month-long quest to disappear without a digital trace, many of the essays gathered here register our intense and complicated fascination with digital media.  But as Dibbell notes,  these essays also remind  us that some of the most disruptive and fascinating technologies continue to come from beyond the digital world.  Jill Lepore’s writing on the politics of breast-feeding gadgetry, Stephen Silberman’s investigation of the placebo effect in pharmaceutical testing, Burkhard Bilger reporting on efforts to build a better cook stove for the developing world, and Tad Friend’s profile of electric-car developer Elon Musk’s efforts to head off environmental catastrophe all invite us to reflect on how many aspects of human experience remain fundamentally unchanged by digital technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked with marvelous essays on technologies old and new, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Technology Writing 2010 \u003c\/i\u003eis an outstanding addition to this “fantastic” (Cory Doctorow), “fascinating” (Chris Anderson) series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best Technology Writing 2010\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays written by:\u003cbr\u003eSam Anderson\u003cbr\u003eBurkhard Bilger\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Bearman\u003cbr\u003eMark Bowden\u003cbr\u003eDavid Carr\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Fox\u003cbr\u003eTad Friend\u003cbr\u003eBen Greenman\u003cbr\u003eVanessa Grigoriadis\u003cbr\u003eJames Harkin\u003cbr\u003eAdam Higginbotham\u003cbr\u003eAlex Hutchinson\u003cbr\u003eSteven Johnson\u003cbr\u003eKevin Kelly\u003cbr\u003eJill Lepore\u003cbr\u003eAlexis Madrigal\u003cbr\u003eJavier Marias\u003cbr\u003eMike Massimino\u003cbr\u003eEvan Ratliff\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Roth\u003cbr\u003eClay Shirky\u003cbr\u003eSteve Silberman\u003cbr\u003eAnnie Trubek\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Weschler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172234281200,"sku":"9780300165654","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300165654","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}