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A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedom……続きを見る

Written by four accomplished and knowledgeable authors, this is the only comprehensive guide to solutions so that resourceful citizens can survive COVID-19 medically, emotionally, and financially. T……続きを見る

In just a few decades, economy and society have been digitalized. At any time every citizen can be informed of what is happening all over the world and he is "online" 24/7. All this has enormous eff……続きを見る

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets we……続きを見る

How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni……続きを見る

Despite the ubiquity of automobility, the reality of automotive death is hidden from everyday view. There are accident blackspots all over the roads that we use and go past every day but the people ……続きを見る

Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms. What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems ca……続きを見る

Today, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange. YouTube demos of makeup products by fa……続きを見る

Get the inside story of the groundbreaking experiment that captured what people think about the life-and-death dilemmas posed by driverless cars. Human drivers don't find themselves facing such mora……続きを見る

Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means t……続きを見る

How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. T This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) f……続きを見る

How artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays. A chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It……続きを見る

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is localーeven for that most universal, foun……続きを見る

How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage. In Discriminating Data, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun reveals how polarization is a goalーnot an error……続きを見る

Oil Spill Occurrence, Simulation, and Behavior provides practical insight into oil spills and their causes, impacts, response and cleanup methods, simple and advanced modeling of oil spill behavior,……続きを見る

Transhumanism is widely misunderstood, in part because the media have exaggerated current technologies and branded the movement as dangerous, leading many to believe that hybrid humans may soon walk……続きを見る

Nel novembre 1944, nel pieno della guerra, il Presidente degli Stati Uniti Franklin D. Roosevelt pose al proprio consigliere scientifico, Vannevar Bush, una domanda cruciale: in che modo potremo, a ……続きを見る

««Non è fantascienza o futurologia. Domingos spiega che siamo già circondati da computer imparanti». » «la Repubblica» - Federico Rampini «Il Sacro Graal dell’informatica è una macchina capace di in……続きを見る

««Da leggere assolutamente... Dobbiamo essere estremamente cauti con l’Intelligenza Artificiale. Potenzialmente, è più pericolosa del nucleare». » Elon Musk «Questa superba analisi, condotta da uno ……続きを見る

Millenarismi, profezie, utopie, speranze e apprensioni: oggi nell’aria c’è una sensazione condivisa di precarietà. Il mondo sembra trovarsi in un momento di svolta senza precedenti, alle soglie di u……続きを見る

This booktackles the philosophical challenge of bridging the gap between empirical research into communication and information technology, and normative questions of justice and how we ought to comm……続きを見る

Google decide come dobbiamo avere accesso alle notizie, scegliendo per noi quelle più adatte. Facebook ci consiglia gli amici, le foto e le cose che ci piacciono. Amazon intuisce quale sarà il pross……続きを見る

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Per……続きを見る

Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer. This book makes a case for applying the principles of ……続きを見る

The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises c……続きを見る

The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a b……続きを見る

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more. With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material a……続きを見る

An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different tec……続きを見る

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, lo……続きを見る

What it means when media moves from the new to the habitualーwhen our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New mediaーwe are toldーexist at t……続きを見る