Social Aspects 14

In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and mil……続きを見る

**One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to……続きを見る

An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studies The Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology ……続きを見る

Con la mundialización de la información, el menor acontecimiento es hecho visible y, aparentemente, más comprensible. Sin embargo, no hay un vínculo directo entre el aumento del número de informacio……続きを見る

** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Librar……続きを見る

Welcome to Human 3.0. Life for early humans wasn’t easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn’t remember or communicate. Fortunately, peo……続きを見る

China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward is a comprehensive assessment of the political and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ITCs) on Chinese societ……続きを見る

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization.……続きを見る

L'aggettivo "smart" è la quintessenza dell'era digitale in cui viviamo, che ha promesso così tanto ma mantenuto così poco. Tutto sembra essere "intelligente", dagli spazzolini da denti fino alle ……続きを見る

Aimed at presenting a systematic design of biorefineries, the book initiates with an overview about relevance and applications explained through origin of raw materials, transformation routes and pr……続きを見る

This interesting book is a compilation of the lectures and discussions held during a four-day event ー Grand Challenges for Science in the 21st Century ー organized by Para Limes at the Nanyang Tech……続きを見る

Tecnologia - saggio (14 pagine) - Questo breve manuale, fatto per chi è a digiuno dell’argomento, esplora il mondo della realtà aumentata e, grazie a dei piccoli schemi finali, fissa alcuni concetti……続きを見る

Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futuresーIncredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex BotsーGrounded in r……続きを見る

'A powerful and realistic message of hope for the future' - Professor John Quiggin, University of Queensland We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre l……続きを見る

Exponential growth in population and improved standards of living demand increasing amount of freshwater and are putting serious strain on the quantity of naturally available freshwater worldwide. W……続きを見る

An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it Many poets and their readers believe poetry helps us escape str……続きを見る

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others, industrial production,……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to generate a strong operational ethic in the work of engineers from all disciplines. It provides numerous examples of engineers who sought to meet the highest ethical standa……続きを見る

With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly ……続きを見る

While the concept of social value is not new, recent interest in social value in construction has grown because of new social procurement legislation around the world and an increasing acceptance of……続きを見る

Instrumental Lives is an account of instrument making at the cutting edge of contemporary science and technology in a modern Indian scientific laboratory. For a period of roughly two-and-half decade……続きを見る

With large-scale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-based magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualization, periodicals that were once accessible only in ……続きを見る

In the 20 years since the publication of the first edition of Bodyspace the knowledge base upon which ergonomics rests has increased significantly. The need for an authoritative, contemporary and, a……続きを見る

Ano 1760, século dezoito. O país é a Inglaterra. Foi a partir desse endereço temporal que as coisas mudaram no planeta terra. Surgiu a primeira, segunda e terceira revolução industrial. Agora se faz……続きを見る

Este libro presenta una visión nacional e internacional de la utilidad y el uso de fuentes de luz de sincrotrón. Incluye las ideas de directores generales de laboratorios en España, Brasil y Estados……続きを見る

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI). Most of the SI base units wi……続きを見る

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with……続きを見る

Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation ……続きを見る

What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other? Part me……続きを見る

Most managers know very little about the technology they introduce into their firms, often preferring to leave such decisions to a small band of technological 'experts'. As a result large amounts of……続きを見る