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Ethics and Electronic Information in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781557531384 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the weekend of September 26-28, 1997, the University of Memphis sponsored an important symposium, The Ethics of Electronic Information in the Twenty First Century. The symposium focused on the ethical implications of the expansive and pervasive growth of information technology throughout the world. Scholars from four continents gathered to present their ideas on what they considered to be the significant issues resulting from this growth. The symposium's purpose was to make people conscious of issues and to accelerate discussion of these issues, particularly as they relate to the...
During the weekend of September 26-28, 1997, the University of Memphis sponsored an important symposium, The Ethics of Electronic Information in the T...
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121,89 zł |
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Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives
ISBN: 9781559637190 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She illuminates the rich but oftentimes unrecognized literary and philosophical tradition that has existed for nearly two centuries, since the first Luddites lifted their sledgehammers in protest against the Industrial Revolution.
Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She illuminates the rich but oftentimes un...
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266,99 zł |
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The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World
ISBN: 9781583670873 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole. Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from... The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world... |
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409,82 zł |
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The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World
ISBN: 9781583670880 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole. Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from... The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world... |
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96,85 zł |
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Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis
ISBN: 9781589011014 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed--and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse. As inexpensive tape recorders allowed the field to move beyond text, written or printed language, to capture talk--discourse as spoken... The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a ... |
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246,46 zł |
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Technological Visions: Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies
ISBN: 9781592132270 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape and potential for their use. In this collection, a range of contributors discuss the visions that have shaped new technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation.
For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape and potential for their use. In this collection,...
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121,89 zł |
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Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict
ISBN: 9781597971072 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Darwin assumed. It is instead a two-part process of change and stability called punctuated equilibrium, with natural selection operating mainly on the frontiers of change. Taking account of biology's latest understanding of evolution, it becomes clear that culture evolves by a similar process. This is important because over the past 30,000 years most human evolution and the behavioral changes that go with it have occurred in our cultures-not in...
Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Da...
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76,67 zł |
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Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour
ISBN: 9781844072477 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rare achievement, one of the first books to link technological and behavioural change to the sustainability agenda Charles Landry, author of The Creative City Any course interested in sustainable development in practice would benefit from the case studies here Dr Adrian Smith, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK Two disjointed voices can be identified in the prevailing sustainability discourse: one technology-focused, the other favouring behavioural solutions. This new, practical text bridges the gap in a 'co-evolutionary' framework, enabling more...
A rare achievement, one of the first books to link technological and behavioural change to the sustainability agenda Charles Landry, author of The Cre...
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277,99 zł |
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Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law
ISBN: 9781844073580 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to cause unpredictable, perhaps irreversible, environmental and public health disasters. With the race to bring products to market, there is pressing need to take stock of the situation and to have a full public debate about this new technological...
Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems...
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878,00 zł |
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Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age
ISBN: 9781852334772 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mobile phones are the most successful computer-based consumer product of the age and yet very little is known about how mobile technology is changing the way people interact and cooperate with each other, and how this change can be analysed.
For the first time, Wireless World brings together experts from different disciplines to explore the social factors that are shaping the wireless world and provides an overview of the issues for anyone designing, testing or studying mobile devices. It identifies the major trends, discusses the main claims made about the mobile age, and looks at... Mobile phones are the most successful computer-based consumer product of the age and yet very little is known about how mobile technology is changing ...
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201,72 zł |
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Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll : How Digital Discovery Works and What It Means for Consumers, Creators and Culture
ISBN: 9781857883985 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discovery is the big challenge in today's world of blogs, social networks and infinite digital shelf space. Consumers are turning the tables on traditional media. They can't be herded toward the 'Next Big Thing, ' but they'll happily pay attention if they hear some 'buzz' about something new and exciting. Essentially, anything goes in this new world of discovery that has taken on a rock 'n' roll ethos that defies tradition and resists definition. Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll: How Digital Discovery Works and What It Means for Consumers, Creators and Culture dissects this new generation of...
Discovery is the big challenge in today's world of blogs, social networks and infinite digital shelf space. Consumers are turning the tables on tradit...
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76,97 zł |
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Tensions and Convergences: Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society
ISBN: 9783899425185 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the forma...
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195,06 zł |
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Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
ISBN: 9780262612234 / Angielski / Miękka / 613 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture.The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent... In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as... |
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221,51 zł |
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The Next Great Thing: The Sun, the Stirling Engine and the Drive to Change the World
ISBN: 9780393334036 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Mark Shelton takes readers through fascinating Sunpower, Inc., staffed by engineers testing a solar-powered machine, which may promise to be one of the most important advances the world has ever known.
One of the major challenges of the coming century is how to keep our technological world working and still save the environment and mankind. Author Ma...
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88,20 zł |
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Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change
ISBN: 9780262582827 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic and flexible spaces -- never finished but always under construction -- it is very difficult to change existing urban structures; they become fixed, obdurate, securely anchored in their own histories as well as in the histories of their surroundings. In Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels looks at the tension between the malleability of urban space and its obduracy, focusing on sites and structures that have been subjected to... City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to b... |
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167,71 zł |
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Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
ISBN: 9780765310835 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect? The next decade promises another qualitative shift in the way we view technology, as once purely fictional concepts--robots, cyborg parts, and the many variations in between--become part of reality. Beyond Human treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same phenomenon. Can we go too far in making ourselves machine-like or making machines resemble us? Once made, what will such creatures think about us? These questions... Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect? The next decade promises a... |
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65,29 zł |
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Technology and Values: Essential Readings
ISBN: 9781405149013 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well.
This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to th...
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189,72 zł |
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Technology and Values: Essential Readings
ISBN: 9781405149006 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well.
This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to th...
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482,39 zł |
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Science, Technology & Hominisations: Bridges to Belief
ISBN: 9781560726272 / Angielski / Twarda / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,36 zł |
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Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
ISBN: 9780521877329 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain. Technological changes already begun could lead to more or less privacy than we have ever known, freedom or slavery, effective immortality or the elimination of our species, and radical changes in...
Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and h...
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154,17 zł |
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