Sam Kaufman

Here are a few short things I think are worth reading:

• Phil Agre. “Toward a critical technical practice: lessons learned in trying to reform AI.” In Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum. 1997.
• Vannevar Bush. “As we may think.” The Atlantic. July 1945.
  
  Bush famously invents the "memex," a hypertext computer. Not just a historical novelty, but musings on what it would mean for information technology to help humanity think.
• Lucy Suchman. “Office procedure as practical action: models of work and system design.” Transactions on Information Systems, 1(4). 1983.
• Bruno Latour. “Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts.” In W. E. Bijker and J. Law (eds.), Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change (pp. 225–258). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Kentaro Toyama. “Technology is not the answer.” The Atlantic, March 2011.

And one longer thing I think is worth reading:

• Horace Herring, Steve Sorrell. Energy efficiency and sustainable consumption: the rebound effect. 2009.

Also: anything else by Agre.