Social Aspects
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We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
$26.95 Read moreA rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves–and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the- Author: Wong, Wendy H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048574
- Language: English
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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
$28.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub
Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inha- Author: Hendren, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 073522000X
- Language: English
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this accessible volume, first published in 1969, Fuller offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometr
- Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 3037781262
- Language: English
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Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming
$27.95 Read moreHow we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire.
In this informative, accessible, and very funny book, Michael L. Littman inspires readers to learn how to tell machine- Author: Littman, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546396
- Language: English
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The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology
$22.95 Read moreThe misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide–this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
AI holds incredible promise to im- Author: Powell, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1523004193
- Language: English
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Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies
$70.83 Add to cartInstead of blaming users for technology addiction and offering self-help measures, Unwired shifts responsibility to technology companies. Through examining the battles against tobacco, junk food, and … [more below]
- Author: Bernstein, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1009257935
- Language: English
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The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
$21.99 Add to cartReal-world advice on how to be invisible online from “the FBI’s most wanted hacker” (Wired).
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity l- Author: Mitnick, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316380520
- Language: English
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Data Feminism
$32.95 Read moreA new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve
- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: D’Ignazio, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0262044005
- Language: English
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iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–And Completely Unprepared
$20.00 Add to cartAs seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born… [more below]
- Author: Twenge, Jean M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1501152017
- Language: English
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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
$35.00 Read moreTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its bus… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593793196
- Language: English
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
$18.99 Add to cartA “gifted and tireless mathematical communicator” (Financial Times) shows why math is the ultimate timesaver–and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts.
Success isn’t- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604407
- Language: English
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside
$16.00 Add to cartIn Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standar
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Wang, Xiaowei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538662
- Language: English
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
$17.95 Add to cartFive mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the “Event” the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that th
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066067
- Language: English
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
$29.99 Add to cart** A New York Times Bestseller **
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time – The New Yorker – NPR – GQ – Elle – Vulture – Fortune – Boing Boing – The Irish Times – The New York Public Library- Author: Odell, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197493
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
$26.00 Add to cart“Startling in scope and bravado.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe “A pl- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037889
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the q- Author: Pasquinelli, Matteo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788730062
- Language: English
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids – And How to Break the Trance
$20.00 Add to cartFrom addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children–and not for the better.
We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring- Author: Kardaras, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250146550
- Language: English
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial guide to life before–and after–Tinder, IVF, and robots.
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of cre- Author: Spar, Debora L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798736
- Language: English
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The Question Concerning Technology: And Other Essays
$17.99 Add to cartAs relevant now as ever before, this accessible collection is an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from “one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century” (New York Times).
The
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03, 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290703
- Language: English
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
Astra Taylor, author of The People’s- Author: Eubanks, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 6, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215781
- Language: English
