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        How Deeply Human Is Language?

        How Deeply Human Is Language?

        How Deeply Human Is Language?

        Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy

        by Yosef Grodzinsky

        ISBN: 9780262052009

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 21, 2026

        An explanation of linguistic theory and large language models—the top contenders for understanding human language—in the context of the brain, from a leading neurolinguist.
        Electric Life

        Electric Life

        Electric Life

        Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy

        by Nikki Luke

        ISBN: 9780262051972

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 31, 2026

        How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice.
        augmented

        augmented

        augmented

        life and death as a cyborg

        by Candi Cann

        ISBN: 9780262051118

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.
        Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

        Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

        Thresholds of Digital Gameplay

        by Daniel L Gardner

        ISBN: 9780262553582

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 16, 2025

        How the often-overlooked interfaces, interactions, and inequities on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize.
        The Social Codes of Tech Workers

        The Social Codes of Tech Workers

        The Social Codes of Tech Workers

        Class Identity in Digital Capitalism

        by Robert Dorschel

        ISBN: 9780262553537

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 9, 2025

        How the coders of our digital worlds think, work, and live.
        Thrive

        Thrive

        Thrive

        Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI

        by Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose

        ISBN: 9780262553971

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 2, 2025

        How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.
        README

        README

        README

        A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines

        by W. Patrick McCray

        ISBN: 9780262553483

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 2, 2025

        The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive.
        Archiving Machines

        Archiving Machines

        Archiving Machines

        From Punch Cards to Platforms

        by Amelia Acker

        ISBN: 9780262553247

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 11, 2025

        The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.
        A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence

        A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

        A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

        by John Zerilli

        With John Danaher, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan, Alistair Knott, Joy Liddicoat and Merel Noorman

        ISBN: 9780262553926

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 4, 2025

        A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy.
        Appropriating Technology

        Appropriating Technology

        Appropriating Technology

        How We Make Digital Tools Our Own

        by Pierre Tchounikine

        ISBN: 9780262553872

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 28, 2025

        How we use digital technologies and make them our own.
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