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Automation, Friend or Foe?
ISBN: 9781107651661 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the history and principles of automation, and the social and economic implications of adopting new systems of automatic control.
Examines the history and principles of automation, and the social and economic implications of adopting new systems of automatic control.
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270,55 |
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Margin of Victory: How Technologists Help Politicians Win Elections
ISBN: 9781440802577 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite a decade of political technology's celebrated triumphs--such as online fundraising of the presidential campaigns of McCain in 2000, Dean in 2003, and Obama in 2008; or the web-enabled, socially networked campaign of Obama 2008--the field of e-politics is still at an unsolidified stage. "Margin of Victory: How Technologists Help Politicians Win Elections" offers an unprecedented insiders' view of the fast-changing role of political technology that explains how innovations in the use of new media, software tools, data, and analytics hold yet untapped potential. Contributions from... Despite a decade of political technology's celebrated triumphs--such as online fundraising of the presidential campaigns of McCain in 2000, Dean in... |
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232,00 |
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An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer What's Next?
ISBN: 9781583334560 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a smart and entertaining guide to the future.
Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, -What's next for our species?- and then traveled the globe in pursuit of the answers. Along the way, he visited the Australian outback to visit the farmers who can save us from climate change, met a robot with mood swings, and talked to the Spaniard who's putting a hotel in space. While some might be overwhelmed, or even dismayed by the looming realities of genome sequencing,... In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a smart and entertaining guide to the future.
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92,48 |
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Gender-Technology Relations: Exploring Stability and Change
ISBN: 9780230300132 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing.
Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today....
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201,24 |
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Machines That Become Us : The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology
ISBN: 9780765801586 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-first century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a significant problem, paralyzing and terrorizing millions, or are ever-proliferating numbers of gadgets being enthusiastically embraced? Machines that Become Us explores the increasingly... Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of hi... |
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538,76 |
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Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight
ISBN: 9780774815482 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New technologies emerge all the time. Some technologies, however, are transformative: they introduce new forms of control, both through formal systems of regulation and by informally shaping our behavior. They have profound impacts and are often disruptive; they affect the way we work and play; they influence our mobility and lifestyle. They offer hope and possibility while introducing new fears and unintended consequences. Too often our social reactions to new technologies occur only in hindsight, after the technology has penetrated the marketplace. However, recent experience... New technologies emerge all the time. Some technologies, however, are transformative: they introduce new forms of control, both through formal syst... |
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426,10 |
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
ISBN: 9780774817233 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past where state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and technological changes forced ordinary people to cope with transformations that were so radical that they no longer recognized their home and workplaces or, by implication, who they were. In concert with a ground-breaking, creative, and analytical... Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we ... |
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156,72 |
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Genetic Testing and the Use of Information
ISBN: 9780844741109 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are in the early years of a technological revolution arising from our understanding of the genetic meaning of life. Scientists' ability to manipulate and decode genes is advancing at an extraordinary pace - so fast we are often unprepared to handle the many vexing legal, economic, ethical and social issues they raise. The combination of genetic research and information technology raises often chilling questions of privacy and genetic discrimination. Should individuals be allowed personal property rights to their DNA, cells or tissues? How should policymakers regulate the biotechnology...
We are in the early years of a technological revolution arising from our understanding of the genetic meaning of life. Scientists' ability to manipula...
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65,32 |
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Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The It Revolution in Japanese Education
ISBN: 9780739106280 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Japanese universities have relied on information technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations are undermined by lags in implementing that technology. This innovative edited volume argues that lags in IT implementation in Japanese education are created by contradictory and challenging responses of the social environment. If this dialectic can be visualized as having hands, the right avidly promotes IT, while the left hand simultaneously blocks it. The result, of course, is an impasse. The issues central to this stalemate are significant because they point beyond...
Although Japanese universities have relied on information technology to resolve numerous problems, their high expectations are undermined by lags in i...
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205,71 |
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Robot: Evolution from Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
ISBN: 9780195116304 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, predicts robotics expert Hans Moravec. And by 2050, they will have far surpassed us.
In this mind-bending new book, Hans Moravec takes the reader on a roller coaster ride packed with such startling predictions. He tells us, for instance, that in the not-too-distant future, an army of robots will displace workers, causing massive, unprecedented unemployment. But then, says Moravec, a period of very comfortable existence will follow, as humans benefit from a fully automated economy. And eventually, as machines evolve far... Machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, predicts robotics expert Hans Moravec. And by 2050, they will have far surpassed u...
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298,62 |
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The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780199899616 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my thirteen-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine year-old a cell phone? In The Parent App, Lynn Schofield Clark provides what families have been sorely lacking: smart, sensitive, and effective strategies for coping with the...
Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More ...
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217,37 |
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Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780814708668 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte's elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years."--Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of Virginia In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to...
"This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without re...
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347,74 |
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The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
ISBN: 9781583946367 / Angielski / Twarda / 547 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse. Fortunately, an Age of Reunion is emerging...
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate...
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135,87 |
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Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture
ISBN: 9780415649018 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursive formation, and explains how some key concepts (such as 'virtuality,' 'speed,' and 'Connectivity') operate as a conceptual architecture network linking technologies to information and individual subjects. The chapters then each focus on a particular cyberfiguration, including Hollywood films (GATTACA, The Matrix), popular literature (William Gibson's Neuromancer, Scott Westerfeld's Polymorph), advertising for digital products and services...
Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursiv...
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239,94 |
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Would a Man Return
ISBN: 9781908135094 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed perception of wartime in Liverpool and later as an apprentice and aircraft engineer at Speke Airport, this well researched story takes you deep into the minutiae of life in the forties and fifties. An unusual contemporary history filled with hangar life, aircraft and the traumas of the transition from boy to man.
A detailed perception of wartime in Liverpool and later as an apprentice and aircraft engineer at Speke Airport, this well researched story takes you ...
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87,08 |
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans
ISBN: 9780465018444 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We 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 class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And...
We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)--the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increa...
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113,42 |
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Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication
ISBN: 9781466626638 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital technology plays a vital role in today's need for instant information access. The simplicity of acquiring and publishing online information presents new challenges in establishing and evaluating online credibility. Online Credibility and Digital Ethos: Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication highlights important approaches to evaluating the credibility of digital sources and techniques used for various digital fields. This book brings together research in computer mediated communication along with the affects digital culture and online credibility.
Digital technology plays a vital role in today's need for instant information access. The simplicity of acquiring and publishing online information pr...
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896,90 |
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Technology as a Tool for Diversity Leadership: Implementation and Future Implications
ISBN: 9781466626683 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although diversity and leadership are not new concepts, the changing of populations, advances in technology, and development of theoretical perspectives have led to the emergence of diversity leadership as an important field of study. As technology continues to bring people together, it aids in the organizational approach of embracing uniqueness and finding innovative ways to reach higher levels of performance. Technology as a Tool for Diversity Leadership: Implementation and Future Implications focuses on the technological connections between diversity leadership and the focus on...
Although diversity and leadership are not new concepts, the changing of populations, advances in technology, and development of theoretical perspectiv...
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896,90 |
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Beyond Broadband Access: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies
ISBN: 9780823251834 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding "information societies"? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and create useful models for achieving national goals? This timely volume not only examines the traditional questions about broadband, like availability and access, but also explores and evaluates new metrics more applicable to the evolving technologies of information access. Beyond Broadband Access brings...
After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding "information societies"? And, more important, in shaping their policies?...
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470,18 |
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Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information
ISBN: 9780415646086 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. Editor Sandra Braman brings together scholars to examine this convergence in three areas: genetic information and "facticity"; social issues and implications; and the economic and legal issues raised by the production and ownership of information. The work highlights the sophisticated processes taking place as biotechnology and information technology systems continue to evolve. The chapters in this book...
This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understandin...
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146,88 |
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