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

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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1984

[mwvdlee]

Orson Welles' masterwork "1984" will teach them all they need to know about how computers have changed their society.
As an added bonus, it will also teach them to understand what politicians means when they use innocent sounding words.