Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook (Little- Brown, (GBP) 14.99) 

This will hardly be recommended reading for Bill Gates et al.

Borsook sets out to have a swipe at the hi-tech world whose growth shows no signs of abating.

Worshipping at the technology altar has installed a generation of computer geeks in an omnipotent position, according to Borsook.

Her argument is that this scenario has created a virtual world in which the reality of humanity is withering and dying.