Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

I started my search on Amazon with the keyword "social media" to see where that would get me.  Initially a lot of books about how to successfully use social media came up, but that's not what I was looking for.  I wanted to read something about the way that technology, and more recently social media, impacts our lives and the ways we behave.

After a little more digging, I narrowed it down to these 3 options:

1. Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism - this book is about the ways social media has impacted protest movements of the 21st century and what it could mean for the future
• At a few libraries
• 2* review
• Fairly little activity on LibraryThing
2. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It - this book is about the impact that continuous access to information has in many ways stunted our curiosity as we merely fill our voids of knowledge rather than thinking critically.
• At quite a few libraries, ones that are much closer too!
• Available through Google
• Fairly little activity on LibraryThing
• Author has written for NPR, The Time, Bloomberg.com, and morezx
3. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - this book is about technology has impacted our relationships with people
• Not at too many libraries at all
• Author gave a TED talk - MIT Prof.
• Lots of activity for this author and book on LibraryThing
• Readers simultaneously intrigued and disturbed by this text

I think both #2, and #3 resonate with me but I'm going to choose Curious.  This author writes on psychology and social trends and I very interested in these subjects - this book was the first one that caught my eye anyway!  Seems as though this book also focuses a lot on education and how the provision of it might change (or should change) because of technology and the access to information.

Reviews:

• Morningstar, J. (2014). Curious: The Desire To Know and Why Your Future Depends on It. Library Journal, 139(13), 110.
• Jill Morningstar - Psychologist, Librarian at Michigan State University
• EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
• BETHUNE, B. (2014). CURIOUS: THE DESIRE TO KNOW AND WHY YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT. Maclean's, 127(32), 56.
• Brian Bethune
• EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
• http://www.macleans.ca/author/brianbethune/
• CURIOUS. (2014). Kirkus Reviews, 82(14), 1.
• Nothing from Project Muse

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