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Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully
$17.95 Add to cartIn our ever-connected world, inner peace isn’t about rejecting technology-it’s about having a better relationship with it. You need boundaries, but that doesn’t mean you should feel guilty every time
- Author: Vidyarthi, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1069099503
- Language: English
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The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
$32.00 Add to cartAlexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.
In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland th- Author: Madrigal, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374159408
- Language: English
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
$18.99 Add to cart“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily li… [more below]
- Author: Arthur, W. Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1416544062
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
$32.00 Add to cartAn insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where the… [more below]
- Author: Summerfield, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 593831713
- Language: English
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The Real World of Technology
$19.95 Read moreIn this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraord… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Franklin, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088784636X
- Language: English
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Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
$16.95 Read moreA lively and entertaining guide to ethics in a technological age.
Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and they aren’t shy about expressing their opinions. But when we take a polarizing- Author: Enriquez, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542811
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
$16.95 Read moreA concise overview of fertility technology–its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.
In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe an- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544695
- Language: English
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Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
$26.95 Read moreA surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.
It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri reall- Author: Neuman, W. Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048485
- Language: English
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Virtual Natives: How a New Generation Is Revolutionizing the Future of Work, Play, and Culture
$28.00 Read moreThe eclipse of Digital Natives and the dawn of virtual culture–how Gen A, Z are radically redefining the future of work, play, economics, and social life.
We’re living through what is arguably one of
- Author: Henry, Catherine D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1394171358
- Language: English
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Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
$29.95 Add to cartAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God.
Today’- Author: Epstein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049201
- Language: English
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Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
$29.99 Add to cartFor readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, A myth-dissolving expos? of what “artificial intelligence” really means, and a resounding argument for an equitable future of A.I.
Silicon Valley has so- Author: Graham, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734961
- Language: English
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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
$16.95 Read moreVirtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, granting us access to any experience imaginable. These experiences, ones that the brain is convinced are real, will s
- Author: Bailenson, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 039335685X
- Language: English
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
$45.50 Read moreIf you can’t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn’t the age of distrust — far from it.
In- Author: Botsman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1541773675
- Language: English
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The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Comsumption
$24.99 Add to cartThis is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating,
- Author: Johnson, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1491933399
- Language: English
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
$16.95 Add to cartWith razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354741
- Language: English
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it
“The dystopian future portr… [more below]- Author: Hill, Kashmir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059344857X
- Language: English
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
$9.99 Add to cartIn The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
Hacki… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1838003983
- Language: English
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351637
- Language: English
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Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System
$16.99 Add to cart“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”
AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion
- Author: Lin, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637308213
- Language: English
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
$19.95 Add to cartFormer Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every da… [more below]
- Author: Williams, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 31 2018
- ISBN10: 110845299X
- Language: English
