Social Aspects
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
$26.00 Add to cart“Startling in scope and bravado.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe “A pl- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037889
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the q- Author: Pasquinelli, Matteo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788730062
- Language: English
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids – And How to Break the Trance
$20.00 Add to cartFrom addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children–and not for the better.
We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring- Author: Kardaras, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250146550
- Language: English
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial guide to life before–and after–Tinder, IVF, and robots.
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of cre- Author: Spar, Debora L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798736
- Language: English
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The Question Concerning Technology: And Other Essays
$17.99 Add to cartAs relevant now as ever before, this accessible collection is an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from “one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century” (New York Times).
The
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03, 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290703
- Language: English
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
Astra Taylor, author of The People’s- Author: Eubanks, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 6, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215781
- Language: English
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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
$21.00 Add to cartAMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK
FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS’ RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK “User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and re- Author: Kuang, Cliff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 8, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758203
- Language: English
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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
$29.99 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250272955
- Language: English
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Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization
$29.00 Add to cartHow 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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Lies My Gov’t Told Me: And the Better Future Coming
$40.00 Add to cartA WALL STREET JOURNALNATIONAL BESTSELLER
*AS SEEN ON TUCKER CARLSON TODAY AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE* A guide for the times–breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came t- Series: Children’s Health Defense
- Author: Malone, Robert W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 151077324X
- Language: English
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
$0.00 Read moreTechnology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intel
- Author: Nichols, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865970
- Language: English
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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
$28.00 Add to cartA former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addict… [more below]
- Author: Kanojia, Alok
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593582047
- Language: English
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A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
$30.00 Read moreA hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exp
- Author: Schneier, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866661
- Language: English
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
$20.00 Add to cartToday’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us–and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years hav
- Author: Christian, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868338
- Language: English
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The Technological Society
$15.95 Add to cartAs insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of te… [more below]
- Author: Ellul, Jacques
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 12-Oct-67
- ISBN10: 0394703901
- Language: English
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Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy–And What We Can Do about It
$29.00 Read moreAmazon’s Best History Book of the Month for July 2023
An invaluable guide to understanding how the internet has broken our brains–and what we can do to fix it. The original internet was not designed- Author: Rose-Stockwell, Tobias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0306923327
- Language: English
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
$22.00 Add to cartAn inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.
Open source software, in which developers publish code that anyone can use, has long served as- Author: Eghbal, Nadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0578675862
- Language: English
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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
$35.00 Add to cartA human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt.
There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Man- Author: Larson, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1732265186
- Language: English
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The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
$24.99 Add to cartHabits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy people. We yearn for the freedom of the gospel but remain shackled by our screen
- Author: Earley, Justin Whitmel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1514006928
- Language: English
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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
$24.95 Add to cart5g is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electrici
- Author: Firstenberg, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 09, 2020
- ISBN10: 1645020096
- Language: English
