Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A history of modern computing A history of modern computing Paul E Ceruzzi This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformatio… OL12339938W
Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk Mike Featherstone,Roger Burrows How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presen… OL17814786W
La déconnexion des élites La déconnexion des élites Laure Belot Une enquête sur le bouleversement de la société par Internet et la culture numérique. ©Electre 2014. OL26187478W
Surviving AI Surviving AI 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...… OL29318072W
From counterculture to cyberculture From counterculture to cyberculture 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… OL3272110W
The sovereign individual The sovereign individual James Dale Davidson Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes… OL3350985W
Code Code 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… OL6037025W
Virtual Organization Virtual Organization 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… OL7090197W
Making a World of Difference Making a World of Difference Geoff Walsham Information Technology has become an essential component of contemporary society, allowing much faster and more widespread communication, not least through the growth of the Internet. However, many i… OL8244366W