Library

Domain 1: Technology Changes Environments

Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) - Technology reshapes environments before it reshapes behavior - https://monoskop.org/images/8/84/McLuhan_Marshall_Understanding_Media_The_Extensions_of_Man_1st_ed.pdf

Carlota Perez: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (2002) - Provides a framework for understanding how major technological shifts reshape economies and institutions - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781781005323.xml

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age (2014) - One of the foundational modern texts explaining digital transformation and AI-driven change - https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Second-Machine-Age/

Domain 2: Environments shape people

Kurt Lewin: Field Theory in Social Science (1951) - Foundation for understanding how environments influence behavior - https://archive.org/details/fieldtheoryinsoc00lewi

Edgar Schein: Organizational Culture and Leadership - Perhaps the most influential work on organizational culture - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119212041

Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline - Introduced systems thinking to organizational learning. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160437/the-fifth-discipline-by-peter-m-senge/

Domain 3: Culture evolves when environments change

Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society - Explains how networked technologies reshape institutions and culture - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Rise+of+the+Network+Society-p-9781405196864

Domain 4: Technology elevates the human condition

Abraham Maslow: Toward a Psychology of Being - Foundation of self-actualization and human development - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Toward+a+Psychology+of+Being%2C+3rd+Edition-p-9780470637166

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow - Provides a model for optimal human experience and capability - https://harpercollins.com/products/flow-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi

Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom - Technology becomes valuable when it expands human capability and agency. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307

Domain 5: AI expands human capability

Douglas Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) - Arguably the philosophical foundation of Humanᴬᴵ - https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

J.C.R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) - Predicted human-computer collaboration decades before AI.
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Noy & Zhang (2023): Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative AI - One of the first major studies showing measurable productivity gains - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2586

Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond (2023): Generative AI at Work - Demonstrated substantial performance gains among customer support professionals - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161

Mollick & Mollick (2024): Using AI Right Now - Practical evidence for AI-enabled capability amplification - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4707588