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Visions Of Technology
Simon & Schuster 2012; Not AvailableTechnology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth. Does technology improve us or diminish us? Enslave... more...
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: The Future
Quercus 2012; US$ 15.18What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying trip through the wonders ? and terrors ? awaiting... more...
Engineers and Communities
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 59.99Engineers and Communities traces the evolution of a small but important innovation in Brazil from 1980 through 2005. Through a series of grand experiments with participatory water and sanitation, coalitions of engineers, planners, public officials, and residents revealed the essential elements of how urban services can be made to be more inclusive.... more...
Mindless
Basic Books 2014; US$ 26.99We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)?the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless , Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle... more...
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; Not AvailableFrom the ?Wired? and ?New York Times Magazine? contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. more...
Big Disconnect
Prometheus Books 2012; US$ 11.99Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. Throughout our history, intimacy with machines has often supplanted mutual human connection. This book reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that soothed the loneliness... more...
Hacking Happiness
Penguin Group US 2014; US$ 12.99What if the data being gathered about you online and by your smartphone could help you become more social, positive, and happy? It can, and this book will show you how. In Hacking Happiness , John C. Havens introduces you to your ?quantified self??the data about your daily activities that is being gathered by your smartphone and by companies... more...
Humanities Computing
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 105.00Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of... more...
Art, Technology, Consciousness
Intellect 2000; US$ 10.00Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanating from the physical sciences as well as embracing spiritual... more...
Nanoscale
Wiley 2007; US$ 103.95An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life Because truly transformative technologies have far-reaching consequences, they always generate controversy. Establishing an effective process for identifying and understanding the broad implications of nanotechnology will advance its... more...









