Inspired by the #SummerOfTech alternative summer reading list for MPs (and everyone) here are our picks, and some other good things we’ve been reading here at Represent.
Our favourites:
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First by Steve Hilton
Blueprint for a Revolution by Srdja Popovic
Rebooting Democracy by Manuel Arriga
Hardcore History and Common Sense by Dan Carlin (podcasts)
Anything by David Brin, Kim Stanley-Robinson.
None of the Above by BBC3 Free Speech presenter Rick Edwards
More great stuff:
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Who Owns The Future? by Jaron Lanier
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power & Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation by Edited by Brett Goldstein and Lauren Dyson
Open Up! Report of the Speaker’s Commission for Digital Democracy by John Bercow and Commissioners
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: How smarter use of technology and data can deliver real reform of local government by Eddie Copeland, Policy Exchange
Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger: Remaking government for the digital age by Chris Yiu & Sarah Fink, Policy Exchange
We need a dynamic, democratic capitalism by Thomas Aubrey, Policy Network
The Circle by Dave Eggars
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
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