Impact of science and technology on society

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of technology use in many domains.

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New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers.

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.

Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusivecelebrity-hosted programming.

There is a lot of confusion and misconception concerning science.

Many online applications, especially in the financial industries, are running on blockchain technologies in a decentralized manner, without the use of an authoritative entity or a trusted third party.

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery.

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.

In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.

An investigation of the connection between ancient world catastrophe myths and modern scientific evidence of a galactic destruction cycle *; Provides scientific evidence of past Earth-wide catastrophes and their galactic superwave origins *; Decodes the ancient message encrypted in the zodiac constellations and symbolism of the Sphinx *; Describes how explosions of our Galaxy's core pose a threat to humanity in the future Many ancient myths from around the world tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood.

How do we ensure security and, at the same time, safeguard civil liberties?

This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages.

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life.

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

Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation.

The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth's atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have outsized effects.

It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection, but, in reality, perfection is a fiction.

Chemical formulation can be traced back to Stone Age times, when hunter-gatherers attached flint arrowheads to shafts using a resin made from birch bark and beeswax.

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E.

Lochlann Jain's debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things.

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress.

"e;Dying to Know is the work of a distinguished scholar, at the peak of his powers, who is intimately familiar with his materials, and whose knowledge of Victorian fiction and scientific thought is remarkable.

Animal experimentation has long been a controversial issue with impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate.

In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics.

In today s world, numbers are in the ascendancy.

'Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences.

An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.

Ever since TIME magazine's 1983 'Man of the Year' was the PC, we have been led to believe that our domestic spaces have been colonized by digital technology.

How Nations Innovate compares how affluent capitalist economies differ in their patterns of technological innovation.

How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "e;big tech"e; and point us to brighter, innovative horizons.

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology.

A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain s most exciting thinkers A masterpiece New York Times Insightful and well-written Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensHow have feelings come to shape the world around us?

Critical edition, translation, and extended interpretation of this important work which reveals the operation of Aristotle''s methodology.

Can the worlds biggest economy actually innovate?

An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have not been widely examined, discussed, or indeed settled.

This book is a collection of stories, reflections and advice written by proficient scientists.

The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times | 'Essential' Reid Hoffman___As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up - and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left behind.