A Humanistic Tech Canon

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Overview

Ted Gioia’s list of works that critique tech from a humanistic standpoint.

Challenge Books

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

Goethe's Faust #1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Nature Of Gothic by John Ruskin

The Nature Of Gothic

John Ruskin

Unto This Last by John Ruskin

Unto This Last

John Ruskin

Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny

Hard Times

Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by José Ortega y Gasset

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

José Ortega y Gasset

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Johan Huizinga

1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell