Impact of science & technology on society books

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Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Author: Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781787693425
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon...  Read More >>

Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2020

Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL...

Author: Samanta Schweblin ,  Megan McDowell
ISBN: 9781786077929
Format: Hardback
$36.99

A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted...  Read More >>

Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science

Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in...

Author: Brett Cyrgalis ,  Kyle Tait
ISBN: 9781797108094
Format: Audio
$105.57

Golf’s Holy War captures golf at a monumental turning point between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic...  Read More >>

Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency

Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of...

Author: Eric Gordon (Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Emerson College) ,  Gabriel Mugar (Berkman Klein Center, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780190870133
Format: Paperback
$82.95

"Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life-from governing bodies to newsrooms-is low. In facing this...  Read More >>

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed...

Author: Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers)
ISBN: 9780198848929
Format: Paperback
$25.95

Future Politics confronts the most important question of our time: how will digital technology change society?  Read More >>

The Balancer

The Balancer

Author: James Geissinger ,  Robert Doherty
ISBN: 9780984741823
Format: Paperback
$39.93

"Flashing red and blue police lights on the evening television news serve as an all too frequent reminder of yet...  Read More >>

Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World

Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data,...

Author: Jathan Sadowski (Research Fellow, Monash University - Caulfield campus)
ISBN: 9780262538589
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and...  Read More >>

A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture

A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture

Author: Sheldon Richmond
ISBN: 9781527546264
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people...  Read More >>

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical Responses

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical...

Author: Joel Kassiola
ISBN: 9781516590964
Format: Paperback
$393.23

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Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Author: Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Laurel Lefkow
ISBN: 9781839827709
Format: Undefined
$63.33

Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon...  Read More >>

The Stars in Our Pockets

The Stars in Our Pockets

Author: Howard Axelrod ,  Tom Taylorson
ISBN: 9781662004933
Format: Audio
$92.37

How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves?  Read More >>

The Stars in Our Pockets

The Stars in Our Pockets

Author: Howard Axelrod ,  Tom Taylorson
ISBN: 9781662004940
Format: Audio
$65.97

How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves?  Read More >>

The Creativity Code: How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint and Think

The Creativity Code: How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint...

Author: Marcus du Sautoy
ISBN: 9780008288198
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘Du Sautoy’s discussion of computer creativity is fascinating’ Observer CAN...  Read More >>

Truth Decay How Bitcoin Fixes This: Unveiling the Path to Financial Freedom

Truth Decay How Bitcoin Fixes This: Unveiling the Path...

Author: Victoria Collette Jones
ISBN: 9781916337718
Format: Hardback
$67.25

Have you recently entered the Bitcoin space and feel as though you have jumped into the middle of a story, with...  Read More >>

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics...

Author: Paul Nahin
ISBN: 9780691191720
Format: Hardback
$44.99

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the...  Read More >>

Data Feminism

Data Feminism

Author: Catherine D'Ignazio ,  Lauren F. Klein
ISBN: 9780262044004
Format: Hardback
$86.99

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism....  Read More >>

A Variety of Causes

A Variety of Causes

Author: Paul Noordhof (University of York)
ISBN: 9780191892271
Format: Undefined
$290.40

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It...  Read More >>

Is Technology Making Us Sick?: A primer for the 21st century

Is Technology Making Us Sick?: A primer for the 21st...

Author: Ian Douglas ,  Matthew Taylor
ISBN: 9780500295311
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A lucid analysis of the impact on society of the increased use of technology in everyday life.  Read More >>

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy...

Author: Cal Newport
ISBN: 9780241453575
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A new strategy to increase productivity, focus, happiness and creativity through a mindful use of digital technology...  Read More >>

Save Our Troubled World: The Unprecedented Innovative Feasible World Salvation Project

Save Our Troubled World: The Unprecedented Innovative...

Author: James Chen Tai- Chi
ISBN: 9781525504846
Format: Paperback
$43.39

Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard...  Read More >>

Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms

Cassirer’s Transformation: From a Transcendental to...

Author: Jean Lassègue
ISBN: 9783030429041
Format: Hardback
$194.04

He finally developed a solution to the problematic unity of objective knowledge by replacing the overarching notion...  Read More >>

Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges

Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges...

Author: Ewa Lechman (Gdansk Univ. of Tech., Poland) ,  Magdalena Popowska
ISBN: 9780367232511
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) impact social development...  Read More >>

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an...

Author: Langdon Winner
ISBN: 9780226692548
Format: Paperback
$42.95

“In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be...  Read More >>

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