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  • The Squares

    US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s

    door Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Serie series Inside Technology
    When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape.In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly ... Meer lezen

    37,94 €

  • Instrumental Community

    Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology

    door Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Serie series Inside Technology
    How networked structures of collaboration and competition within a community of researchers led to the invention, spread, and commercialization of scanning probe microscopy.The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been hailed as the “key enabling discovery for nanotechnology,” the catalyst for a scientific field that attracts nearly $20 billion in funding each year. In Instrumental Community, ... Meer lezen

    21,93 €

  • The Long Arm of Moore's Law

    Microelectronics and American Science

    door Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Serie series Inside Technology
    How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial.Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short ... Meer lezen

    25,75 €

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  • Abundance

    The Future Is Better Than You Think

    Serie series Exponential Technology Series
    The New York Times bestselling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom” (The Wall Street Journal).Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. ... Meer lezen

    16,76 €

  • The Second Machine Age

    Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near ... Meer lezen

    12,50 €

  • A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

    door Daniel Susskind ...
    A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Meer lezen

    8,15 €

  • Exponential

    Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology

    door Azeem Azhar ...
    The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times | 'Essential' Reid Hoffman___As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up - and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left behind. This is the exponential gap.Now, a leading technologist explores how this exponential... ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Revolutionary Wealth

    Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the ... Meer lezen

    5,29 €

  • A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

    door Daniel Susskind ...
    NOMINATED FOR THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2020'A path-breaking, thought-provoking and in-depth study of how new technology will transform the world of work' Gordon Brown'Compelling... Should be required reading for any presidential candidate' New York TimesNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • Four Futures

    Life After Capitalism

    door Peter Frase ...
    Serie series Jacobin
    "It is easier to imagine the end of the world," the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, "than to imagine the end of capitalism." Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now ... Meer lezen

    6,67 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Engineer

    door Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Meer lezen

    4,23 €

  • Unscientific America

    How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

    In his famous 1959 Rede lecture at Cambridge University, the scientifically-trained novelist C.P. Snow described science and the humanities as "two cultures," separated by a "gulf of mutual incomprehension." And the humanists had all the cultural power -- the low prestige of science, Snow argued, left Western leaders too little educated in scientific subjects that were increasingly central to ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €