Adam Fish Books

The drone’s story begins in the militarized laboratories of the twentieth century, born of Cold War anxieties and the desire to remove human risk from battlefields. Early unmanned systems were crude, radio‑controlled aircraft designed for reconnaissance. Yet with each subsequent conflict—from Vietna...

From Drones and Society: Transformations in Surveillance, Power, and Everyday Life

Surveillance has always promised security, yet drones intensify its reach by transforming the act of watching into an automated routine. From the drone’s aerial vantage, every body becomes data, every motion measurable. In this book we explore how this perspective alters the dynamics of power. When ...

From Drones and Society: Transformations in Surveillance, Power, and Everyday Life

The story begins not with semiconductors or circuit boards, but with rebellion. The 1960s Bay Area wasn’t just a place — it was a mood. Communes, LSD, rock music, and the dream of personal liberation set the stage for what would become a technological revolution. I wanted to show how the same ethos ...

From Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom

The Homebrew Computer Club, meeting in auditoriums and garages during the 1970s, was where the future first flickered into being. I gathered accounts from people who were there: dreamers who passed around chips, schematics, and ideas as if they were poems. This was where Steve Wozniak showed off wha...

From Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom