Social Aspects
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Talk to Me (International Edition)
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Vlahos, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1328606716
- Language: English
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The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World
$25.99 Add to cartDaedalus, the great inventor of ancient myth, fashioned wings so that he and his son Icarus could escape imprisonment. But it all went awry when Icarus ignored his father’s warnings and flew too close
- Author: Tracy, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988207023
- 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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In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
$16.99 Add to cartThis is “the Word” — one man’s word, certainly — about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the “one man” is Neal Stephenson, “the hacker Hemin
- Author: Stephenson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0380815931
- Language: English
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Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed?
Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodgson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198825048
- Language: English
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Should You Believe Wikipedia?
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Bruckman, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1108748406
- 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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Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Norman, Donald A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548305
- Language: English
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto
$45.00 Add to cartWhat we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, auth
- Author: Wang, Ge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1503600521
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipat
- Author: Milner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354369
- Language: English
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All EMF*d Up (*Electromagnetic Fields): My Journey Through Wireless Radiation Poisoning plus How You Can Protect Yourself
$16.99 Add to cartWireless devices such as Cell phones, routers, WiFi, cell towers and antenna emit ElectroMagnetic Field Radiation (EMF) which can make some people ill with a permanent malady called Electromagnetic Hy
- Author: Mills, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1733950710
- 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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The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies Are Altering Society
$59.99 Add to cartTechnological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our society. The possession of computers, smart-devices, along w
- Author: Okunev, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1484286855
- 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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Cyborg
$16.95 Read moreA concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzi- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Forlano, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262547554
- Language: English
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
$21.00 Add to cartThe inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framew… [more below]
- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140282025
- 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
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Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
$34.99 Add to cartNever have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people h… [more below]
- Author: Cronin, Audrey Kurth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019088214X
- Language: English
