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[2015]
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English
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"A fellow at the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, Bruce Schneier has been called 'one of the world's foremost security experts' (Wired). In Data and Goliath, Schneier offers a sobering look at government/corporate surveillance and the ever-rising threat to personal privacy and freedom"--Provider website
23) The amateurs
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2019.
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English
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Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past.
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Circle volume 1
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English
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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
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2001.
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English
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Making the Information Society illuminates the complex chain of experiences,consequences, and possibilities that launched the information age in theU.S., and drive it onward today. Dr. James Cortada shows how Americans haveleveraged information technology in every area of their lives -- and offersa provocative look at the next phase of this new American revolution.
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2008.
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English
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The Geospatial Web (aka the GeoWeb) is a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 market of innovative data and software applications--including location-based services, social software, and even augmented reality--for both the web and mobile devices. Propelled by the new location-aware iPhone, the GeoWeb is hurtling into the mainstream. This special issue lays out the new generation of geo products and services, identify the major players, and show how your business...
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"When keeping up with massive amounts of information is part of your job and daily life, how do you transform a feeling of overwhelm to a sense of abundance and empowerment? Discover practical insights and strategies to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and all your ventures. In Thriving on Overload, Ross Dawson provides simple actionable techniques for staying ahead in an accelerating world. It's all about choosing...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Rep Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America's digital divide. In Khanna's vision, "just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress" (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics)"--
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2022.
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English
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"Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Simon Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and explains how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives"--
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2010
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English
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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first...
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2023.
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English
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Transformation in the digital arena is all set to drive innovations and the global economy in the coming decade and beyond. The core technology sectors hold potential to drive large-scale opportunities. This audiobook covers the seven alternative technology revolutions: namely, Artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), blockchain and cryptocurrencies, the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, and quantum...
34) The amazing story of quantum mechanics: a math-free exploration of the science that made our world
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Using illustrations and examples from science fiction pulp magazines and comic books, the author explains the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics that underlie the world we live in.
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English
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What if somebody knew everything about you? Your relationships, family history, finances, medical records, even your exact location...Somebody does. That somebody is "Big Tech." Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft know more about you than you do. And they make billions of dollars by cashing in on your private data. Our personal data...is the engine that drives the unregulated, free-for-all, Wild West world called the digital marketplace....
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©2006
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English
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The general public has come to accept that technology is the greatest new growth frontier with an infinite amount of potential. Conventional thinking states that never before has such a golden era existed in which technology thrived and blossomed so fully. This work deals with this kind of hype.
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A new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes-from the French publisher who invented...
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"As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power...
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