Social Aspects
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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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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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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
$21.00 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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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 Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
$15.99 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 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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Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
$17.99 Add to cart“A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age.” –Bob Woodward
“Incisive … Refreshing … Compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyo
- Author: Powers, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0061687170
- 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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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Michiko Kakutani’s (New York Times) top ten books of 2016
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We’ve begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tec- Author: Sax, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 1610398211
- Language: English
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
$28.00 Add to cartWorld-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will funda… [more below]
- Author: Schwab, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1524758868
- Language: English
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Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
$25.99 Add to cartWe’re being formed by our devices. Today’s digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others
- Author: Song, Felicia Wu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0830851135
- Language: English
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Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
$29.00 Read moreHow optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach
Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more chea- Author: Krumme, Coco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0593331117
- Language: English
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
$19.95 Add to cartFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.
Benjamin argue
- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: 17-Jun-19
- ISBN10: 1509526404
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance–fr… [more below]
- Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593593952
- Language: English
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartLogical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: “Progress” is a myth. Wild nature and humanit… [more below]
- Author: Kaczynski, Theodore John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1944228039
- Language: English
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
$19.95 Add to cart“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuri
–John Horgan- Author: Larson, Erik J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278666
- Language: English
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The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives.
In 2021, when n- Author: Haugen, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 031647522X
- Language: English
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
$18.99 Add to cartIn recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies–with hardware, software,… [more below]
- Author: Brynjolfsson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0393350649
- Language: English
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
$19.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would b- Author: Lanier, Jaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389979
- Language: English
