Social Aspects

In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned Canadian scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact ...

The Present Is A Contest Between The Bright And Dark Sides Of Discovery. To Avoid Being Torn Apart By Its Stresses, We Need To Recognize The Fact - And Gain...

A New York Times Technology Correspondent Presents The Dramatic Rise And Fall Of Uber, Set Against The Rapid Upheaval In Silicon Valley During The Mobile Er...

Leading Innovation Expert Alec Ross Explains What's Next For The World, Mapping Out The Advances And Stumbling Blocks That Will Emerge In The Next Ten Years...

Do you pull out your phone at every idle moment? Do hours slip away as you mindlessly scroll? Has your smartphone added a level of detachment between you ...

Kevin Kelly. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 475-500) And Index.Categories: Engineering & TransportationEngineering

Art Making And Criticism Have Focused Mainly On The Visual Media. This Book, Which Originally Appeared As A Special Issue Of Tdr/the Drama Review, Explores ...

The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs...

About the Author\Ben Lytle is a self-made serial entrepreneur-CEO known for being ahead of the curve. He launched five successful companies, including two l...

New York Times Bestsellerwall Street Journal Bestseller From The Visionary Head Of Google's Innovative People Operations Comes A Groundbreaking Inquiry Into...

The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco o...

The Challenges To Humanity Posed By The Digital Future, The First Detailed Examination Of The Unprecedented Form Of Power Called Surveillance Capitalism, An...

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work and th...

Concatenation, Conjunction, And Connection -- The Sensitive Infosphere -- Global Skin : A Trans-identitarian Patchwork -- The Aesthetic Genealogy Of Globali...

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the ...

if You Think The World Has Changed Dramatically In The Last Five Years, You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet. you Will Never Look At The World In The Same Way Af...

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an et...

Technology Is Rapidly Moving Into Our Bodies, Writes Cyber Expert Keenan, And This Book Gives A Chilling Look Ahead Into Where That Road May Lead Us - On A ...

Drones Are In The Newspaper, On The Tv Screen, Swarming Through The Networks, And Soon, We're Told, They'll Be Delivering Our Shopping. But What Are Drones?...

User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective. Johnson begins with a historical overview of the...

The Former World Chess Champion Who Played, And Lost, Against Deep Blue, A Supercomputer, In 1997 Discusses Why He Thinks Humans Should Embrace The Competit...