Impact of science & technology on society books

From one of tech's boldest thinkers and his deputy comes a sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, and a vital and...  Read More >>

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Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

This book is about efforts to get AI right. It documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists...  Read More >>

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Investigating the link between environmental breakdown and the increasing development of digital technologies, this...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality—where sexual desire is seen...  Read More >>

This two-volume book provides an enriching insight into the laser, covering different types of lasers, the basic...  Read More >>

A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

A beautifully written and accessible history of humanity’s attempts to understand our place in the cosmos.  Read More >>

Through an ethnography of plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick...  Read More >>

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Humans of AI pulls back the curtain on the hidden labor, practices, and philosophies that shape AI, revealing the...  Read More >>

This book presents a curated selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 2024 IEEE Conference on Advanced Topics...  Read More >>

A distinguished geoscientist and rising-star astrobiologist offer a stunning new theory upending 150 years of established...  Read More >>

An exploration of Cuba's emerging digital culture and Cubans' creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets,...  Read More >>

A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims....  Read More >>

A deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country's carefully regulated internet offers...  Read More >>

""Bratton offers a new geopolitical theory for the age of global computation and algorithmic governance""-- Provided...  Read More >>

A new cyber-safety guide for today's world, by a leading international expert and author of the bestselling Sexts,...  Read More >>

Korean edition of [Source Code: My Beginnings] by Bill Gates. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The origin story of...  Read More >>

Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by...  Read More >>