Pretty cool.
I think an interesting differentiation between humans, and every other form of life is that we have the ability to create something for no apparent logical reason. We have the ability to create not only out of need, but also out of desire. And we have the creative capacity to look at an invention with no intrinsic use and apply one to it after the fact, did the creators of the Web ever think Friendster would evolve out of their medium?
As far as books I would recommend to start reading some Phillip K Dick. He died in '83 but I find his writing more advanced than Asimov. A good place to start would be “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, the book that inspired the film Blade Runner. His stories also inspired Paycheck, The Minority Report, and Imposter. It’s telling that 20 years after his death his story lines read truer than ever.