Long before the current AI conversation reached mainstream audiences, Michael was writing about the forces shaping it — decentralization, digital identity, the economics of trust, and the question of who controls the most valuable assets of the digital age. These books are a record of that inquiry.
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Our Biggest Fight
Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
Crown · Penguin Random House · with Frank McCourt
A manifesto for redesigning the internet so that human agency, not platform extraction, is the organizing principle. Endorsed by Bruce Springsteen, Walter Isaacson, Jonathan Haidt, Tristan Harris, and Darren Walker.
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The Truth Machine
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
St. Martin's Press · with Paul Vigna
Why the architecture of trust is being rebuilt — and what that means for governments, companies, and the people they serve.
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The Social Organism
A Radical Understanding of Social Media
Hachette · with Oliver Luckett
A biological model for how ideas, narratives, and movements actually spread through the networks we live inside.
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The Age of Cryptocurrency
How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
St. Martin's Press · with Paul Vigna
The first serious, mainstream account of the technology and the economic argument now reshaping global finance.
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The Unfair Trade
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Crown Business
A reporter's investigation of the asymmetries baked into the global financial system — and who pays for them.
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Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Vintage
How a single photograph became one of the most reproduced — and most misunderstood — political symbols of the modern era.
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