Technology Studies
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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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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- 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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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
$19.99 Add to cartThis “utterly spectacular” book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such in
- Author: Standefer, Katherine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316450340
- Language: English
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El Valor de la Atención: Por Qué Nos La Robaron Y Cómo Recuperarla
$24.95 Add to cartLa atención ha entrado en una profunda crisis. Cuáles son los motivos?, quién nos la está robando?, y, más importante aún, cómo podemos recuperar nuestra capacidad de concentración? Un demo
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 6073900007
- Language: Spanish
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
$18.95 Add to cartA revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online-and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like- Author: Bail, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241406
- Language: English
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After the Internet: Digital Networks Between Capital and the Common
$16.95 Add to cartOn the internet’s transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.
The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention
- Author: Terranova, Tiziana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901685
- 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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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
$26.95 Read moreHow to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all
Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anyw- Author: Marx, Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765887
- Language: English
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
$25.33 Add to cartAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the fir- Author: Katz, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823962
- Language: English
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Humanity Reimagined: Where We Go From Here
$29.95 Add to cartFor years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the ri
- Author: Fiore, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1953943063
- Language: English
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Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future
$19.00 Add to cartJer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its
- Author: Thorp, Jer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849152
- Language: English
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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
$18.00 Add to cartIn Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising-the beating heart of the internet-is at risk of colla
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Hwang, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538654
- Language: English
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Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)
$27.95 Read moreHow teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their- Author: Weinstein, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047357
- Language: English
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics–former
- Author: Deresiewicz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858631
- Language: English
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Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race
$19.95 Add to cartPeople around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and o
- Author: Fiekowsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1953943101
- 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
