Strong Ideas
Strong Ideas is a hybrid print and open access book series for general readers, that provides fresh, strongly argued, and provocative views of the effects of digital technology on culture, business, government, education, and our lives. Books in the Strong Ideas series are published in print editions for sale in bookstores and in digital open access editions available on the PubPub platform. The Strong Ideas series is published with generous support from the MIT Libraries.
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Fantasies of Virtual Reality
Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat
ISBN: 9780262549165
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 10, 2024
The fantasies that underpin common perceptions of Virtual Reality—and what we need to know about VR's potential risks as well as its opportunities.
Data Feminism
ISBN: 9780262547185
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
On the Brink of Utopia
Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
ISBN: 9780262546485
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.
The Digital Closet
How the Internet Became Straight
ISBN: 9780262545952
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. A Next Big Idea Club nominee.
Artificial Communication
How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence
ISBN: 9780262046664
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication.
Sharenthood
Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online
ISBN: 9780262539630
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 8, 2020
From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children's privacy online.
Hacking Life
Systematized Living and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9780262538992
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2020
In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
ISBN: 9780262538961
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2020
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Rewiring Democracy
How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780262049948
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 2025
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Hacker's Mind and Data & Goliath, an informative and wide-ranging exploration of how AI will alter every facet of democracy, and how to harness the technology to distribute rather than concentrate power.

Fantasies of Virtual Reality
Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat
ISBN: 9780262549165
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 10, 2024
Data Feminism
ISBN: 9780262547185
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
On the Brink of Utopia
Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
ISBN: 9780262546485
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
The Digital Closet
How the Internet Became Straight
ISBN: 9780262545952
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
Artificial Communication
How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence
ISBN: 9780262046664
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
Sharenthood
Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online
ISBN: 9780262539630
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 8, 2020
Hacking Life
Systematized Living and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9780262538992
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2020
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
ISBN: 9780262538961
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2020
Rewiring Democracy
How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780262049948
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 2025