Overt the weekend assignment

This weekend, my search for books began simply with the term "information technology", where I found hundreds of books, a large number of them based on using information technologies in the workplace and management books, most of which seamed useful to implement learning, but none of which seamed interesting. So i refined my search to "information technology" and "society" but i also changed the relevance to books with the most popular, hoping that would assist to access to book that sole purpose wasn't educational. The first book i came upon was at the top of the best seller list for books on technology on Amazon, called The Innovators: How a group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Changed the World (October 2014). The Innovators is about the significant people who changed our lives by influencing the technological revolution, people such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Robert Noyce, ect. While it did have a very high popularity score on LibraryThing, i could not find this book on WorldCat, nor on Google Books, which i suspect is because it was published 2 weeks ago, therefore eliminated it form my choices of reading material, it was also almost 600 pages long.
The second book that caught my eye was Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (July 2014) which seamed interesting to me because it was a about the world in 2393 and how the negligence of mankind affected the future. But i did not choose this book, for a couple of reasons, 1-it is only 104 pages long, and 2- It seams to sway from the information technology and more simply at our technologies that caused great climate change. It was also only at 282 libraries and had 22 responses on Google Books, but only 3.5 stars.
The final book i found that genuinely caught my attention was a book that gained popularity for its response to digital technologies impact on our society and most importably on American economy. How its not to far off from the years that our lives and major corporations will be reinvented by these technologies. This book is called  The Second Machine Age. Work Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technology (January 2014) which is 320 pages long and $15.66. WorldCat says it is at 1269 libraries, subjects being Economic development, Information Technology-Economic Aspects and Progress-Social aspects, all of which relate to what i searched. Although it had few reviews on Google Books, it gained highly positive responses on LibraryThing. While on ProQuest, i did not see any reviews by major national newspapers, it had numerous positive responses calling it a "very important book" but it is also stated that there are important issues in this context that the book only mentioned in passing, and doesn't develop arguments on issues it needs to. Another article states the book as "ambitious, engaging and at times terrifying" which makes me even more interested in reading it.

"Learn 'n' Go; Technology and Work." The Economist Jan 25 2014: 71,n/a. ProQuest. Web. 13 Oct. 2014 .

Marien, Michael. "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies." Cadum 2.2 (2014): 174-9. ProQuest. Web. 13 Oct. 2014.

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