Impact of science and technology on society

The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002.

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena.

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.

'The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places.

In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.

Carl Djerassi, berühmter Wissenschaftler und seit Jahren auch als Schriftsteller erfolgreich, gewährt in zwei neuen Theaterstücken einmal mehr spannende Einblicke in die Welt der Kunst und der Wissenschaft.

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process.

In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success.

This volume contains an Open Access ChapterOffering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the emergence of virtual reality (VR) into the gaming mainstream, Virtual Reality Gaming delves into the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

Currently, the health of over half the adult population in the UK suffers because of fat.

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

Since the end of the Cold War, U.

This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the ''science of science''.

What is life?

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.

Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, which studies scarcity.

Risk Assessment: The Human Dimension begins by looking at quantified risk assessment and considers, by using case studies, how accident causation can be considered from the three main perspectives of hardware failures, human error and failures of systems and cultures.

Now that we have sequenced the human genome, what does it mean?

Science and spirituality are not enemies.

Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge.

We are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to.

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco''s regime and Spain''s forced modernization.

Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species.

An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.

Innovation has a dark side.

Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms?

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices - computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming.

A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it today Information is power.

In Infrahumanisms Megan H.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E.

Essential information for anyone considering a career in scientific research.

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc.

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero.

This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.

A case for building a digital environment that can make us happier and healthier, not just more productive, and a theoretical framework for doing so.