Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Social Aspects

From the author of the international bestseller THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE comes a powerful new story of revolution and riches in a connected age.

Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense examines the historic force now shaking our world--and explains how our leaders, our...

'Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller -geeks out- the problematic of software. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to Github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies.'
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University

'This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society - software. From mobile...

Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought. The Politics of Bitcoin exposes how much of the economic and political thought on which this cryptocurrency is based emerges from ideas that travel the gamut, from Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises to Federal Reserve conspiracy...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2016, held in Katowice-Ustron, Poland, in March 2016. The 37 full and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They present and organize the knowledge from within the field of intelligent transportation systems, the specific solutions applied in it and their influence on improving efficiency of transport systems.

This book will aid you in your PrestaShop development - the free, open source e-commerce content management solution written in PHP and with support for MySQL. Accessible to small start-ups or larger businesses, it is becoming a very popular...

Droht die ferngesteuerte Gesellschaft?

Dieses Buch greift das weithin diskutierte, zum Jahreswechsel 2015/16 veroffentlichte -Digital-Manifest- auf und fuhrt die Debatte entlang vielfaltiger Themenlinien weiter. Es geht hierbei um nicht weniger als unsere - digitale - Zukunft: Welche Chancen eroffnen kunstliche Intelligenz und digitale Technologien, welche Risiken und ethische Herausforderungen bergen sie? Wie schutzen wir unsere Daten und die Privatsphare? Wie sichern wir individuelle Freiheit und Demokratie vor Gefahren der digitalen Verhaltenssteuerung? Wie sollen...

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This volume discusses the prospects and evolution of informatics (or computer science), which has become the operating system of our world, and is today seen as the science of the information society. Its artifacts change the world and its methods have an impact on how we think about and perceive the world. Classical computer science is built on the notion of an -abstract- machine, which can be instantiated by software to any concrete problem-solving machine, changing its behavior in response to external and internal states,...

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.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the internet pervades our professional and personal environments. The internet has revolutionized our lives, but at what cost?