Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

1. Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein — have read other titles by this author & they were mostly meh, but this is an incredible book, hard to describe, better to experience. Ostensibly is about how the author is often confused with Naomi Wolf who went down conspiracy rabbit holes but it is so much more than that. 2. The Myth of Christian Beginnings by Robert Wilkin — an older title (1971), short well written book on how Christians mythologize early Christians, & frame it as some static model of heavenly perfection that they're always trying to get back to, or maintain 3. Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee — on the surface, a book about utopian community experiments but is so much more, imaginative conjuring on thinking outside the box, how we blindly just accept things the way they are, so dismissive of nonorthodox ideas 4. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris — just as the title advertises, have read a lot of history but the 19C on California presented here was so interesting

Not sure if this is what you're interested in, but a friend recently recommended reading these two in tandem: "The Image" by David Boorstin, and "Palo Alto" by Malcom Harris Both offer views on the evolution of technology, but from authors with somewhat opposing viewpoints. "The Image" is particularly interesting to read today, because it was written in 1962, with the advent of TV, and back then one of the core concerns was edited video and how it was becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate fact from fiction. Interesting overlap with some of the concerns around LLMs