Social Aspects
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
$21.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial co
- Author: Turner, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226817423
- Language: English
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Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
$18.99 Add to cartThe Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction–Christian Living
Outreach Resource of the Year
The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to k
- Author: Kim, Jay Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1514003163
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, The Internet of Things, Neural Networks, Deep Learnin
$15.97 Add to cartIf you want to learn about artificial intelligence, then keep reading…
So, what is the deal with intelligent machines? Will they soon decide on things such as copyright infringement? How about self-d
- Author: Wilkins, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1950922510
- Language: English
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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
$17.95 Add to cartIn this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and t
- Author: Madhavan, Guru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 039335301X
- Language: English
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Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I
$24.99 Add to cartMumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language… [more below]
- Series: Technics & Human Development #1
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0156623412
- Language: English
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LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution
$45.00 Add to cartTransport yourself back to the golden era of multiplayer PC gaming, when the internet was a place you built with your friends and the only in-game purchases were pizza deliveries. Ad hoc and adventuro
- Author: K, Merritt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0500026955
- Language: English
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Recommendation Engines
$18.95 Add to cartHow companies like Amazon and Netflix know what “you might also like” the history, technology, business, and social impact of online recommendation engines.
Increasingly, our technologies are giving us
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Schrage, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539071
- Language: English
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The Technological Singularity
$19.95 Add to cartThe idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.
The idea that human history is approaching a “singula
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shanahan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527804
- Language: English
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The Internet of Things, Revised and Updated Edition
$16.95 Add to cartA guided tour of the rapidly evolving networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work.
Since the publication of the original edition of this volume- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Greengard, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542625
- Language: English
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
$20.00 Add to cartHumans have always sought to change their environment–building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are a
- Author: Florman, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0312141041
- Language: English
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
$15.95 Add to cartA guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues tha
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Broussard, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 026253701X
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
$14.99 Add to cartThis book predicts the decline of today’s professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0198841892
- Language: English
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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working togeth… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0316349127
- Language: English
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What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart. —The New York Times Book Review
From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford pr- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Daub, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538646
- Language: English
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The Switch: An Off and on History of Digital Humans
$34.95 Read moreFrom the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that h
- Author: Puskar, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915406
- Language: English
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The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
$32.99 Add to cartUncover the fascinating history of virtual communities and how we connect to each other online. The Rise of Virtual Communities, explores the earliest online community platforms, mapping the technolog
- Author: Atherton, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: April 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1484292960
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
$26.90 Add to cartFrom a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood–and what we can do about it
“Engrossi- Author: Linn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978334
- Language: English
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Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
$11.95 Add to cart“A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propagan… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1789042305
- Language: English
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
$24.99 Add to cart“The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you’re willing to risk the consequences. ” –from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from t… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1449389554
- Language: English
