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Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World
ISBN: 9780684863115 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology 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 us or make us free? With this first-ever collection of the essential twentieth-century writings on technology, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes explores the optimism, ambivalence, and wrongheaded judgments with which Americans...
Technology 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 being...
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108,11 zł |
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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
ISBN: 9780691004129 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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192,20 zł |
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What Is the Impact of Cyberlife?
ISBN: 9780737738773 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays discuss the positive, negative, and potential effects of online gaming on society.
Essays discuss the positive, negative, and potential effects of online gaming on society.
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159,95 zł |
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
ISBN: 9780738208619 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, wireless-paging, and Internet-access devices-that will allow us to connect with anyone, anytime, anywhere.Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. He also reminds us that the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, and adapt...
Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the resu...
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157,65 zł |
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Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience
ISBN: 9780739108505 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael...
Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the cl...
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483,25 zł |
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Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience
ISBN: 9780739108512 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but in many other ways they have created even greater social and economic gaps. An urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Raphael...
Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the cl...
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197,69 zł |
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Ideas, Machines, and Values: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Studies
ISBN: 9780742500679 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideas, Machines, and Values is an introductory overview of the emergence of STS as a field of study, as well as a portrait of its current interests and concerns. The book examines the growth of STS from its birth inthe mid-1960's through its development as an interdisciplinary field to its present state. Also addressed are the questions 'Why should we study STS?' and 'In what direction should STS be headed?' This work is highly recommended for anyone interested in building a solid foundation for Science, Technology, and Society Studies.
Ideas, Machines, and Values is an introductory overview of the emergence of STS as a field of study, as well as a portrait of its current interests an...
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225,15 zł |
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The Internet and Society
ISBN: 9780745620879 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.
The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.
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98,79 zł |
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Embracing the System: The Systemisation of Business and Life
ISBN: 9780759648609 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of good social systems and modern manufacturing requires systems thinking. Its expansion and effects are examined. (Technology)
The development of good social systems and modern manufacturing requires systems thinking. Its expansion and effects are examined. (Technology)
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107,85 zł |
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Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life
ISBN: 9780765803351 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United States and around the world. Magic in the Air is the most wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's impact on society and the way social forces affect the use, display, and re-configuration of the cell phone. Surveying the mobile phone's current and emerging role in daily life, Katz finds that it provides many... In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommu... |
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704,29 zł |
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Theory of Technology
ISBN: 9780765808448 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away-sometimes for millennia. Sometimes, technology comes to a standstill, and sometimes, it even reverses itself. Thus, unlike science, which seems to proceed at a reasonable and calm rate, the progress of technology is diffi cult to theorize about. While in science many developments are predictable to a certain extent and this predictability may, at times, direct or stymie science's progress-as with stem-cell research and cloning-technological advances, such as the Internet, are...
The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away-sometimes for millennia. Sometim...
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229,49 zł |
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Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings
ISBN: 9780780347120 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING, engineers, faculty, and students will find an informative guide to the professional, societal, and ethical responsibilities that face practicing engineers today. Through an integrated approach to the theory of engineering ethics and practical real-world issues, this comprehensive book offers readers an in-depth analysis of technology's current social role.
Drawing on readings and case studies first published in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, this easy-to-read text will develop readers' understanding of the... -In SOCIAL, ETHICAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING, engineers, faculty, and students will find an informative guide to the professional, soci...
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713,62 zł |
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Cognitive Technology: Essays on the Transformation of Thought and Society
ISBN: 9780786419746 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapidly growing cognitive technologies (such as word processors, web browsers, cell phones, and personal data assistants) aid learning, memory, and problem solving, and contribute to every part of modern life from interviewing crime witnesses to learning a foreign language to calling one's mother. between the human mind and the tools people create to enhance it, studying which technologies assist cognition the most and what features are most effective. It also considers the point at which the technological enhancement of human ability begins to restrict that very ability, such as the risk of...
Rapidly growing cognitive technologies (such as word processors, web browsers, cell phones, and personal data assistants) aid learning, memory, and pr...
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248,25 zł |
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User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts
ISBN: 9780791439326 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective. Johnson begins with a historical overview of the problem of technological use from the ancient Greeks to the present day--a problem seen most clearly in historical discussions of rhetoric theory. The central portion of the book elaborates on user-centered theory by defining three focal issues of the theory: user knowledge, human-technology interaction, and technological determinism. Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, Johnson uses rhetoric theory to present a definition of...
User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective. Johnson begins with a historical overview o...
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136,08 zł |
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The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
ISBN: 9780791468463 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures--the mummy, the golem, and the automaton--and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from...
The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures--the mummy, the g...
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136,08 zł |
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Democratizing Technology: Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
ISBN: 9780791469187 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our lives? More importantly, can we control and shape it, or does it control us? In short, can we make technology more democratic? Using the work of Andrew Feenberg, one of the most important and original figures in the field of philosophy of technology, as a foundation, the contributors to this volume explore these important questions and Feenberg responds.
Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our liv...
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140,09 zł |
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All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
ISBN: 9780801863707 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central position in American life since the mid-nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has been paid to its history. Now, in All the Modern Conveniences, Maureen Ogle presents a fascinating study that explores the development of household plumbing in nineteenth-century America. Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in... As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, A... |
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153,76 zł |
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Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 9780804742030 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do...
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume c...
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114,72 zł |
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Mediated Memories in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780804756242 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxes to retrieve at a later moment in life. Autobiographical memory, its tools, and its objects are pressing concerns in most people's everyday lives, and recent digital transformation cause many to reflect on the value and meaning of their own "mediated memories." Digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers are rapidly replacing analogue equipment, inevitably changing our everyday routines and conventional forms of recollection....
Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxe...
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104,29 zł |
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Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion
ISBN: 9780805844818 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group of leading international scholars and analysts to explore the effects of new technologies on human beings. They focus specifically on the intersection of new communication technologies and...
The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the wo...
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198,19 zł |
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