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The New Digital Age
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected?a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley?s great leaders, having taken... more...
Present Shock
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99?If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.? This is the moment we?ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we don?t seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain poised and frozen, overwhelmed by an always-on, live-streamed... more...
Heidegger and Marcuse
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 35.95This short book contrasts the philosophies of technology of Heidegger and Marcuse, one of Heidegger's star pupils, and relates their work to contemporary technology studies. Feenberg sets out the historical and theoretical background of the debate, then discusses each philosopher's theory in turn, and ends with an important analysis of the implications... more...
The World Is Flat 3.0
Picador 2007; US$ 16.99This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back , by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011. A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book... more...
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableWinner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. more...
Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95"Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed."... more...
Moralizing Technology
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology... more...
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 37.95Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic... more...
Flesh and Machines
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 16.00Are we really on the brink of having robots to mop our floors, do our dishes, mow our lawns, and clean our windows? And are researchers that close to creating robots that can think, feel, repair themselves, and even reproduce? Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believes we are. In this lucid and accessible book,... more...
Beyond Technocracy
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99Explores the widely debated theme of science and democracy across a broad range of technological controversies. This book dispels stereotypes of the detached scientific community versus the uninformed general public. It is suitable for courses in technology and society, political science, and science policy. more...









