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Devices of the soul
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Steve Talbott |
Mr. Darcy's Diary presents the story of the unlikely courtship of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Darcy's point of view--sharing his innermost thoughts and feelings. This graceful imagini… |
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Rapture for the geeks
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Richard Dooling |
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they're as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more… |
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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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Program or be Programmed
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Douglas Rushkoff,Douglas Rushkoff |
"The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it’s here… |
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Ethics for the information age
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Michael J. Quinn |
In an era where IT changes constantly, a thoughtful response to these rapid changes requires a basic understanding of IT history, an awareness of current issues, and a familiarity with ethics. This b… |
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What remains to be discovered
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John Royden Maddox |
[O]n the eve of the millennium the question about science's future reappears. In his widely discussed 1996 book, ''The End of Science,'' John Horgan argued that, indeed, the end is nigh: The big disc… |
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Against the Machine
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Lee Siegel |
From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes… |
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The 4th revolution
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Luciano Floridi |
"Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new ch… |
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Talking Back to the Machine
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Peter J. Denning |
From the editors of the wildly successful Beyond Calculation comes another exploration of the overwhelming impact of computers on our future. This time, the essays focus on the human impact of comput… |
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Overcomplicated
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Samuel Arbesman |
"You don't understand the software running your car or your iPhone. But here's a secret: neither do the geniuses at Apple or the Ph.D.'s at Toyota--not perfectly, anyway. No one, not lawyers, doctors… |
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Islands in the cyberstream
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Joseph Weizenbaum |
"Extended interview with Joseph Weizenbaum about the role of computing in society"-- |
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Who invented the computer?
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Robert Snedden |
This title looks back at the long history of computers and whos how the digital world we enjoy today was created. |
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Social informatics evolving
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Pnina Fichman |
The study of people, information, and communication technologies and the contexts in which these technologies are designed, implemented, and used has long interested scholars in a wide range of disci… |
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Descartes' Dream
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Philip J. Davis,Reuben Hersh |
Discusses the impact that mathematics and computers have on our intellectual and emotional lives. |
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Surviving AI
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Calum Chace |
Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong...… |
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Más allá del texto
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Luisa Fernanda Grijalva Maza,Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gómez Rossi,Ileana Azor |
The aim of this book is to explore new forms and cultural practices in the digital age that challenge or undermine the hegemonic modes of knowledge production historically related to the written text… |
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From counterculture to cyberculture
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Fred Turner |
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… |
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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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Code
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Lawrence Lessig |
Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to de… |
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Virtual Organization
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Abbe Mowshowitz |
"Computers mediate. They serve as brokers in matching buyers to sellers, employees to employers, resources to work processes, and on it goes. The social significance of computers as mediators and bro… |
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