Impact of science and technology on society

"e;Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.

Over the course of the last thirty years, the investigation of objects at the nano scale has rocketed.

Have you ever tried to envision YOUR OWN future?

For readers of Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, the book readers have acclaimed asA mega-comprehensive outlook at intelligence as convincing as it is surprising and Atruly breathtaking forecast on the future of intelligence.

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.

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines.

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

Cyber Wars gives you the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks.

Science and innovation have the power to transform our lives and the world we live in - for better or worse in ways that often transcend borders and generations: from the innovation of complex financial products that played such an important role in the recent financial crisis to current proposals to intentionally engineer our Earth s climate.

This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey.

Growing Down explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology.

This study cuts across book arts and literary stylistics in a revisionary theory of language as medium in textual action.

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology-the divide between germ and somatic cells-with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications.

The first holistic analysis of the space, mindset, and inner workings of Silicon Valley in a generation.

Discover the extraordinary role of plants in modern forensics, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching.

Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees.

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other.

At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.

Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future.

An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.

Global warming and, even more recently, the COVID pandemic have brought into public focus our dependence on science and the lens with which it considers the world.

For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving expose of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.

Taking off at the height of China's socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet developed alongside the twists and turns of the country's rapid transformation.

Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.

The first synoptic history of how the Royal Society faced up to the challenges of continued relevance from 1960 onwards.

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biologyThis is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject.

Revisiting Marshall McLuhan's work on the ways that technologies influence societies, Adria reconsiders the effects technologies have had on Canadian regionalism and nationalism.

Paul Virilio is one of contemporary Continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices.

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution.

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

Will this new technology work to solve the problem its inventors claim it will?

Digital technology is a ''natural technology''-a technology so intuitive as to conceal how and how far it transforms the world.

How did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be?

Invention to Innovation charts a course for scientists, leaders, investors and policy makers to translate research into growing innovative, competitive companies and industries.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste.

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.

Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities.

Ambitiously identifying fresh issues in the study of complex systems, Peter J.

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise's conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences.

There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it.