Social Aspects
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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online
$29.00 Add to cartAn urgently needed reckoning with the harm, harassment, and abuse women face on the Internet, complicating how we think about violence online and featuring deep reporting on how women are surviving th… [more below]
- Author: Dastagir, Alia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593727843
- Language: English
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The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
$32.00 Add to cartAlexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.
In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland th- Author: Madrigal, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374159408
- Language: English
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
$18.99 Add to cart“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily li… [more below]
- Author: Arthur, W. Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1416544062
- Language: English
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The Dark Cloud: The Hidden Costs of the Digital World
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.
The Dark Cloud is the searing
- Author: Pitron, Guillaume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363010
- Language: English
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Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
$32.00 Add to cartTech visionary Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.
Superagency offers a roadmap for usin- Author: Hoffman, Reid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893310108
- Language: English
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Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
$32.95 Read moreHow AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that- Author: Bapna, Ravi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049317
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
$32.00 Add to cartAn insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where the… [more below]
- Author: Summerfield, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 593831713
- Language: English
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The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
$32.95 Read moreIn a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?
Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society,
- Author: Wheeler, J. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085433
- Language: English
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Artificial General Intelligence
$17.95 Add to cartHow to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Togelius, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549344
- Language: English
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Program or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands for the AI Future
$19.95 Read moreThis compact new edition of a paradigmatic text packs a big and actionable punch. Updated with a new section on the unique challenges posed by AI, Program or Be Programmed presents a spirited, accessi
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194353
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Algorithms: A Tiktok Manifesto
$22.00 Read moreFrom an artist and TikTok creator, a critical look at the controversial app and its effect on cultural heritage, artificial intelligence, community organizing, and digital censorship.
In Revolutionar- Author: Akers, Torey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1538773732
- Language: English
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
$30.00 Add to cartAs Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity–
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316581291
- Language: English
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Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
$28.99 Read more“A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience–it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)–from the visionary co-founder of on… [more below]
- Author: Narula, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593239970
- Language: English
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
$34.95 Read moreHow to co-create–and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.
Co-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated ma- Author: Cizek, Katerina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 026254377X
- Language: English
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Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
$29.95 Add to cartHow to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and c- Author: Williams, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0262545314
- Language: English
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The Real World of Technology
$19.99 Read moreIn this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraord… [more below]
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Franklin, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088784636X
- Language: English
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The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse
$29.95 Read moreLike most aspects of modern existence, more and more of our financial lives have migrated to the digital realm. With the benefits of ease that our Internet allows us, that transition also raises numer
- Author: Vartanian, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888835
- Language: English
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Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World
$30.99 Read moreWhat Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock was to the 20th century, Our Molecular Future will be to the 21st century.What will happen to our jobs, health care, and investments when the molecular revolution hit… [more below]
- Author: Mulhall, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929921
- Language: English
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Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
$16.95 Read moreA lively and entertaining guide to ethics in a technological age.
Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and they aren’t shy about expressing their opinions. But when we take a polarizing- Author: Enriquez, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542811
- Language: English
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Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World
$24.95 Read moreHow to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape.
The basis of competition is changing. Are- Series: Management on the Cutting Edge
- Author: Adner, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546000
- Language: English
