Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society?

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 28, 2013 @03:19AM from the novelization-of-wargames-is-all-you-need dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We are teaching an introductory class in computer science for high school students. We have the technical aspects of the course covered, there is a lot of information on the internet on designing that aspect of the class. We also want to cover some aspects of how computers affect society, privacy, expectations, digital divide etc. We were suggested Blown to Bits, which covers a lot of this but I'm not sure high school students are really going to enjoy it or even take away the right implications ... any recommendations for anything else ? Movies, Fiction, Non-Fiction Books and any other media are all welcome. Students are expected to read no more than 200 pages (that's all the time they have)."

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Re:1984 by Hognoxious · 2013-07-28 03:48 · Score: 5, Funny

1984 has always been written by Orson Welles.

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Re: 1984 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-28 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny

DoublePlus whoosh!
(FTFY)