Social Aspects

“If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.” This is the moment we’ve be...

The Internet Is Powerful, But It Is Not Safe. As Smart Devices Proliferate The Risks Will Get Worse, Unless We Act Now. From Driverless Cars To Smart Thermo...

Thou Shalt Innovate Profiles Wondrous Israeli Innovations That Are Collectively Changing The Lives Of Billions Of People Around The World And Explores Why I...

Data Is Fundamental To The Modern World. From Economic Development, To Healthcare, To Education And Public Policy, We Rely On Numbers To Allocate Resources ...

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and mom of three gives parents and educators the tech habits children need to achieve their full potential--and a six-step pl...

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement--quantum computing--which may eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

A Stark And Urgent Warning On The Unprecedented Risks That A Wave Of Fast-developing Technologies Poses To Global Order, And How We Might Contain Them While...

In This Visionary Look Into The Future, Freeman Dyson Argues That Technological Changes Fundamentally Alter Our Ethical And Social Arrangements And That Thr...

In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to ...

The Director Of Mit's Media Lab And A Contributor To Wired Present A Set Of Working Principles For Adapting And Thriving In The Face Of The Twenty-first Cen...

'global Sex' Is The First Major Work To Take On The Globalization Of Sexuality, Examining The Ways In Which Desire And Pleasure - As Well As Ideas About Gen...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book ...

Team Human Is A Manifesto--a Fiery Distillation Of Preeminent Digital Theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Most Urgent Thoughts On Civilization And Human Nature. In ...

It is technology's saturation of American society - with its fabulous innovations and its devastating consequences - that John Naisbitt and his coauthors Na...

A Manual For Survival And Success That Asks The Most Important Question Today's Leaders, In Any Industry, Can Ask Themselves: What Would Google Do? To Demon...

George Grant—philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist, Christian—was one of Canada's most significant thinkers, and the author of Lament for a Na...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, a timely and eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must wo...

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily lif...

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...

Offers A Concise History Of Globalization, Discussing A Wide Range Of Topics, From The September 11 Terrorist Attacks To The Growth Of The Middle Class In B...

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 ...

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

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...