Social Aspects
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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 Add to cartA 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
$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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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
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
$21.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial co
- Author: Turner, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226817423
- Language: English
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Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
$19.99 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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Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, The Internet of Things, Neural Networks, Deep Learnin
$15.97 Add to cartIf you want to learn about artificial intelligence, then keep reading…
So, what is the deal with intelligent machines? Will they soon decide on things such as copyright infringement? How about self-d
- Author: Wilkins, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1950922510
- Language: English
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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
$17.95 Add to cartIn this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and t
- Author: Madhavan, Guru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 039335301X
- Language: English
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Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I
$24.99 Add to cartMumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language… [more below]
- Series: Technics & Human Development #1
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0156623412
- Language: English
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LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution
$45.00 Add to cartTransport yourself back to the golden era of multiplayer PC gaming, when the internet was a place you built with your friends and the only in-game purchases were pizza deliveries. Ad hoc and adventuro
- Author: K, Merritt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0500026955
- 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 Technological Singularity
$19.95 Add to cartThe idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.
The idea that human history is approaching a “singula
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Shanahan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527804
- Language: English
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The Internet of Things, Revised and Updated Edition
$16.95 Add to cartA guided tour of the rapidly evolving networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work.
Since the publication of the original edition of this volume- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Greengard, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542625
- Language: English
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
$20.00 Add to cartHumans have always sought to change their environment–building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are a
- Author: Florman, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0312141041
- Language: English
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
$19.95 Add to cartA guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues tha
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Broussard, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 026253701X
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
$14.99 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 Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$27.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working togeth… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0316349127
- Language: English
