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The cultural logic of computation
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David Golumbia |
Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and… |
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Resisting the Virtual Life
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James Brook |
This text aims to provide a platform for writers, scholars and activists to discuss the political, economic and cultural aspects of corporate and government visions of "the information superhighway".… |
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Green Home Computing For Dummies
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Woody Leonhard |
It can be easy to be green! Follow these suggestions and help save the planet Get on board the green machine! Here's how to assess your technology's green factor and make small changes with big impa… |
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Reality Is Broken
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Jane McGonigal |
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal shows how we can harness the power of computer games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness, since her research suggests that gamers are expert… |
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And then there's this
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Bill Wasik |
And Then There's This is Bill Wasik's journey along the unexplored frontier of the twenty-first century's rambunctious new-media culture. He covers this world in part as a journalist, following "buzz… |
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The Mobile Wave
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Michael Saylor |
In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelli… |
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Weapons of Math Destruction
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Cathy O'Neil |
<strong>A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric</strong>
We live in the age of the algorithm. I… |
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The computer
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Mark Frauenfelder |
The Computer traces the evolution of this vital machine from its earliest roots through its exciting application in code-breaking during the Second World War, and from its initial use in the workplac… |
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People and Computers XII
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Harold Thimbleby |
The discipline of Human-Computer Interaction has a key role to play in the convergence of computing, information and communications and those working in this field constantly face new challenges as n… |
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Computers all around us
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Drake, Jim |
Introduces the many ways in which computers are used in the home, office, stores, factories, and in the fields of medicine, transportation, and banking. |
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Virtual Unreality
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Charles Seife |
Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news… |
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Data-ism
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Steve Lohr |
By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gi… |
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Facebook for seniors
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Carrie Ewin |
"Offers 12 step-by-step lessons for getting set up on Facebook"-- |
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Positive computing
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Rafael A. Calvo |
"On the eve of Google's IPO [Initial Public Offering] in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their … |
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Heart of the machine
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Richard Yonck |
"Futurist Richard Yonck argues that instilling emotions, the first, most basic, and most natural form of communication, into computers is the next leap in our centuries-old obsession with creating ma… |
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The Invisible Rainbow
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Arthur Firstenberg |
"The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an enviromnental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing… |
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Materiality and organizing
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Bonnie A. Nardi,Jannis Kallinikos,Paul M. Leonardi |
This edited collection brings together leading academics in the field to explore the ways in which digital and non-digital artifacts shape how groups and collectives organize. It focuses on the idea … |
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The future does not compute
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Talbott, Steve. |
This is actually not a description, but a correction of your information about the book. The full text IS available, in HTML format and as a compressed tar file, at http://netfuture.org/fdnc. |
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The Road Ahead
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Bill Gates |
Bill Gates' 1995 analysis of the impact of information and computer technology on society and predictions about the future. Includes a great overview of ancient counting machines to mainframe big-iro… |
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Cyberdemocracy
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Tsagarousianou |
Developments in information technology and the internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to present opportunities for improving the responsiven… |
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