Social Aspects
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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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The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
$29.95 Read moreA timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts a- Author: Pugh, Allison J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691240817
- 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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The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life
$35.00 Add to cartA visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today’s hypermediated world–not just as a political right but as the key to a life worth living.
The parts of our lives that are not being surveil- Author: Pressly, Lowry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 067426052X
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
$18.95 Add to cartHow Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, me- Author: Marcus, Gary F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551063
- Language: English
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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
$20.00 Add to cartA new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?
Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be- Author: Farahany, Nita A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250339278
- Language: English
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The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic
$29.00 Add to cartA bold defense of the internet, arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided —“essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet” (Taylor Lorenz, author of Extrem… [more below]
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604121
- Language: English
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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
$24.95 Add to cartFrom two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI–and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Confused about AI and worried about what it means- Author: Narayanan, Arvind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 069124913X
- Language: English
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Supremacy: Ai, Chatgpt, and the Race That Will Change the World
$30.00 Read moreIn November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service a
- Author: Olson, Parmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250337747
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$12.00 Read moreWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076259
- Language: English
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Facing Internet Technology and Gaming Addiction: A Gentle Path to Beginning Recovery from Internet and Video Game Addiction
$29.95 Add to cartInternational technology addiction experts, Cash, Rae, and Carnes collaborate in a cutting-edge workbook designed for individuals with problematic technology use such as gaming addiction, compulsive i
- Author: Cash, Hilarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1732067333
- Language: English
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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author
$19.99 Add to cartAn engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself.
We are all connected now. But connected to what, exactly? In Tubes, journalist
- Author: Blum, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 006285030X
- Language: English
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Golf’s Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
$18.99 Add to cartAs Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, this “highly entertaining, very smart book” (James Patterson) takes us inside golf’s clash between its hallo… [more below]
- Author: Cyrgalis, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 147670760X
- Language: English
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Robótica: Lo que los principiantes deben saber sobre la automatización de procesos robóticos, robots móviles, inteligencia artif
$15.97 Add to cartSi usted quiere aprender rob tica, siga leyendo…
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- Author: Wilkins, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1950924327
- Language: Spanish
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Scientific Computing: For Scientists and Engineers
$30.99 Add to cartScientific Computing for Scientists and Engineers is designed to teach undergraduate students relevant numerical methods and required fundamentals in scientific computing. Most problems in science and… [more below]
- Series: de Gruyter Textbook
- Author: Heister, Timo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 3110999617
- 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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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
$25.99 Add to cartIn 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Chang… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107632757
- Language: English
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Being Geek: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook
$24.99 Add to cartAs a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there’s much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author
- Author: Lopp, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0596155409
- 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
