All Episodes
Human Stories, Machine Dreams — 78 episodes
How We Know What Isn’t So - Thomas Gilovich
A Guide for the Perplexed - E. F. Schumacher
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
The Middle Way: Faith, Wisdom, and Mind - Dalai Lama
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
On China - Henry Kissinger
Quiet - Susan Cain
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Power and Progress - Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Unmasked - Ars Technica
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
The Children of Men - P.D. James
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zero and Other Fictions - Huang Fan
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Understanding Our Minds - Thich Nhat Hanh
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Good Book - A.C. Grayling
Cognitive Surplus - Clay Shirky
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan
The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - E.F. Schumacher
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Chaos - James Gleick
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - Noam Chomsky
Crash - J.G. Ballard
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Collapse - Jared Diamond
Gaia - James Lovelock
The Age of Empathy - Frans de Waal
World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein
The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
The Secret of the Golden Flower (commentary by C. G. Jung)
The Ascent of Humanity - Charles Eisenstein
Last and First Men - William Olaf Stapledon
Critical path - Buckminster Fuller
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
Beyond religion: Ethics for a whole world - the Dalai Lama
Introduction to Zen Buddhism - D.T. Suzuki
Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Simulacra and simulation - Jean Baudrillard
A Hacker Manifesto - McKenzie Wark
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tao te ching - Lao Tzu (trans. Ursula K. Le Guin)