GenresNon-fiction
Technology
Tools, systems, and the people caught in them.
Technology books for a general reader have to explain systems without either flattering the industry or treating every new tool as an attack. The reader wants to know how something works and why it matters: artificial intelligence, the attention economy, a platform that has become a habit, a future being sold a little early. They don't want a manual, and they don't want a sermon, though a point of view is necessary or the book is only a tour.
Report the present. Technology writing rots when it is all prediction, and it becomes trivia when it is all gadget. People are the way through. The engineers, the users, the people whose jobs or privacy or attention are being rearranged, often without a meeting they were invited to. Be precise about what a system can actually do this year. Wonder and warning are both legitimate, and a good book knows which claim is which. If you are not technical, check the mechanism with people who are, then write it more plainly than they would.
The kinds of book inside it
Artificial intelligence
The tools and their effects need separating from the marketing, with enough explanation that a reader could argue about the real capabilities.
Internet culture
Culture online is the subject, and it should include the companies and incentives underneath the posts, not only the mood of the timeline.
Future tech
Things that are nearly here, or being promised, handled with dates and doubt, so the book isn't a brochure from next year.
Privacy & power
Who knows what about us, and what they can do with it, explained through systems and consequences rather than through a vague sense of unease.
When you want a first sketch, Storywell can draft a contents list in this vein. You are still the one who writes the book. Compose an idea.