Impact of science and technology on society

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

An innovative view of the role of fitness concepts in evolutionary theory.

This volume of the series Proceedings in Engineering Mechanics - Research, Technology and Education provides selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Science and Technology Education, held in Porto, Portugal, October 6-7, 2022.

The book is about the observation of the use of technology and the importance of manners.

The digital revolution is in full force but many public and private sector leaders are stymied: How can they maximize the full potential of digital technology?

A child's day in the garden with their Gran and Pa leads to a wonderful exploration of pollination.

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy.

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education.

The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.

This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

Explores the history, community and context through which climate ''geoengineering'' became a governance object on the climate policy agenda.

This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

Haben Sie schon einmal versucht, sich IHRE EIGENE Zukunft vorzustellen?

This book is a Q-and-A tour for anyone with a curious mind.

A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her ';forceful critique' of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracyOver the past decades, under the cover of ';innovation,' technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves.

This thought-provoking book points out that the most significant change in international relations in the 20th century was not the defeat of communism, nor the end of the Cold War, but the huge advances in communications technologies.

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.

'Captivating The stuff of thrillers' - the Financial Times An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientistsDeep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known.

The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual.

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.

UPDATED EDITION'A holistic take on AI from an African perspective, Closing the Gap joins the dots on deploying AI efficiently into everyday business and life.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions.

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies.

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

Profiling 60 medical innovations and milestones from the 11th through 21st centuries, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future?

Discover the secret method used to build the world.

A compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.

Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence.

Con el fin de abordar la búsqueda de vida inteligente extraterrestre, en el 2016 los autores del libro iniciaron un grupo de investigación multidisciplinaria que dieron en llamar Proyecto OTHER (Otros mundos, Tierra, Humanidad y Espacio Remoto).

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives.

Kindergarteners are not high in EQ yet, that's a given.

This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age.

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societiesRapid technological change-likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic-is reshaping economies and how they grow.

En la literatura sobre las emociones una de las teorías con mayor fuerza es la llamada "teoría James-Lange".

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

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

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the worldShining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself.

How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discoveryReinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years.

The classic case for why government must support science-with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors.

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?

CREATE FIENDISHLY FUN SPY TOOLS AND COUNTERMEASURESFully updated throughout, this wickedly inventive guide is packed with a wide variety of stealthy sleuthing contraptions you can build yourself.

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear.

We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves?