An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history.
People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the whee……続きを見る
An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.
The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political……続きを見る
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.
The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge socie……続きを見る
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.
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Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.
For many of our interactions with digital media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a……続きを見る
A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident.
In this book, Ronald Day offers a his……続きを見る
What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web.
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or ma……続きを見る
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent p……続きを見る
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories,……続きを見る
How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transformingーand expandingーsocial life.
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email ping……続きを見る
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (C……続きを見る
The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture; as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.
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**Explore the societal implications of rapidly-advancing AI systems with this in-depth study combining a humanities perspective with technical analysis.
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Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London.……続きを見る
A software developer’s misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why we should never assume technology always gets it right.
In Artificial Unintelli……続きを見る
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what ……続きを見る
Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of hav……続きを見る
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
For more than two decades, in su……続きを見る
A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video gamesーdespite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)
We may think of video games as being “fun,” but i……続きを見る
An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.
Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploratio……続きを見る
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
Waste is material infor……続きを見る
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.
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An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
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How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.
Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural ……続きを見る
How organizations can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act faster when the time is right; with rich examples including Adobe, MasterCard, and Amazon.
When turbulence is the new normal, an……続きを見る
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agreeーAmericans must……続きを見る
The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV.
Cable television channels were once the backwater of American telev……続きを見る
An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of societyーas did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.
Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends an……続きを見る
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
The tsetse fly is a pan-African ins……続きを見る
How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the worldーin everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing wor……続きを見る
