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1. Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll: How Digital Discovery Works and What it Means for Consumers
2. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
3. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
4. Climate Change and Adaptation
5. Digital Convergence: How the Merging of Computers, Communications and Multimedia is Transforming Our Lives
6. Technology and Social Complexity
7. The End of Work
8. Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed
9. Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
10. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe
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The Project Group Launches a Specialized Offering For Direct and Partner Initiated Information Security Consulting Engagements The Project Group Inc,(TPGI) a project and process optimization management consulting firm, announces the formation of its Information Security consulting group to augment its technical staffing and outsourcing practices.
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HP separates PC unit again, hires ex-PalmOne CEO Hewlett-Packard has hired former PalmOne CEO Todd Bradley to run its PC division, which will again be operated as a stand-alone business.
International Biometric Group Delivers Iris Recognition Test Report to the US Department of Homeland Security Extensive evaluation of iris recognition accuracy, interoperability, and usability. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]
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Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll: How Digital Discovery Works and What it Means for Consumers
Authors: David Jennings. Paperback, 258 pagesPublisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 2007-10-01 Reviews :
When it comes to discovering new music, films or games, today's fans are not sheep who can be herded towards some Next Big Thing. They look to collaborative websites, blogs and social networking sites for information and can switch their attention with just a few clicks. The technologies of Chris Anderson's long tail are profoundly changing consumer behavior. Author David Jennings profiles this new era of discovery that even iTunes and Google have to accommodate....
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Authors: Howard Rheingold. Hardcover, 288 pagesPublisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 2002-10 Reviews :
From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Howard Rheingold takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift-a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices that will allow us to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.From the amusing ("Lovegetty" devices in Japan that light up when a person with the right date-potential characteristics appears in the vicinity) to the extraordinary (the overthrow of a repressive regime in the Philippines by political activists who mobilized by forwarding text messages via cell phones), Rheingold gives examples of the fundamentally new ways in which people are already engaging in group or collective action. He also considers the dark side of this phenomenon, such as the coordination of terrorist cells, threats to privacy, and the ability to incite violent behavior.Applying insights from sociology, artificial intelligence, engineering, and anthropology, Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the brave new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. At the same time, he reminds us that, as with other technological revolutions, the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, adapt to it, and ultimately use it to transform themselves, their communities, and their institutions. ...
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
Authors: James Beniger. Paperback, 508 pagesPublisher: Harvard University Press Publication Date: 1989-03-15 Reviews :
Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And why is this change recent--or is it? James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information: the Control Revolution. Between the 1840s and the 1920s came most of the important information-processing and communication technologies still in use today: telegraphy, modern bureaucracy. rotary power printing, the postage stamp, paper money, typewriter, telephone, punch-card processing, motion pictures, radio, and television. Beniger shows that more recent developments in microprocessors, computers, and telecommunications are only a smooth continuation of this Control Revolution. Along the way he touches on many fascinating topics: why breakfast was invented, how trademarks came to be worth more than the companies that own them, why some employees wear uniforms, and whether time zones will always be necessary. The book is impressive not only for the breadth of its scholarship but also for the subtlety and force of its argument. It will be welcomed by sociologists, economists, historians of science and technology, and all curious in general. ...
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Climate Change and Adaptation
Authors: Hardcover, 400 pagesPublisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. Publication Date: 2007-12 Reviews :
Many parts of the developing world are subject to variable and extreme climate, the impacts of which impede development and point to the need to improve the understanding and management of climate risks. These needs are being amplified by human-caused climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be effective at reducing risks. Climate Change and Adaptation and its companion volume Climate Change and Vulnerability, resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, deficits between current practices and needs for effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the risks due to human-caused climate change, strategies for adapting to climate change to lessen the risks, and the need to integrate these strategies into development planning and resource management. The book also identifies obstacles to effective adaptation and explore measures needed to create conditions that are favorable to climate change adaptation. The findings and lessons will be of use to policymakers and managers responsible for understanding and avoiding potentially adverse effects from climate change on sustainable development, food security, agriculture, water resources, forests, fisheries, grazing lands, biodiversity and public health. Citizen activists who are concerned about reducing the threats from climate change to the poor, sustainable development, biodiversity, and sensitive environmental systems and resources will learn about options for management of the threats....
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Digital Convergence: How the Merging of Computers, Communications and Multimedia is Transforming Our Lives
Authors: Andy Covell. Paperback, 234 pagesPublisher: Aegis Publishing Group, Ltd. Publication Date: 1999-12 Edition: 1 Reviews :
The tools of human interaction--images, video, sound and text--can now be digitally transmitted, stored, combined and manipulated in ingenious ways that are still being discovered and perfected....
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Syncro Soft Announces Version 6.0 Releases EContent (press release), CT -... XML Editor and XSLT Debugger can be run as a standalone application on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and as an Eclipse plugin. ...
Bigger, Better, Faster, More Telcogames & The Carphone Warehouse Launch Symbian Games Pack on Multimedia Memory Card [PRWEB Jun 8, 2005]
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Technology and Social Complexity
Authors: Maurice N. Richter.
Hardcover, 120 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 1983-01
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The End of Work
Authors: Jeremy Rifkin. Hardcover, 350 pagesPublisher: Tarcher Publication Date: 1994-12-28 Reviews :
Global unemployment is now at the highest level since the Depression. In this provocative book, Rifkin illustrates that the soaring productivity advances made possible by new technologies are bringing the world economy close to cataclysm. He argues, however, that there is still time to avoid economic collapse, and offers challenging solutions for the public and private sectors....
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Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed
Authors: Stephen Bertman. Hardcover, 288 pagesPublisher: Praeger Trade Publication Date: 1998-04-30 Reviews :
The rampant illnesses of our society--including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress--are familiar to us all. For the first time, Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these disparate, overwhelmingly negative phenomena with a single, unifying principle: that the accelerated pace of American society is eroding the essence of our most fundamental values. In 1970, Alvin Toffler identified a psycho-biological disease he called "future shock" caused by "too much change in too short a time." Now Bertman daringly diagnoses an even more serious condition, "hyperculture," a chronic warping of morals and ethics caused by America's addiction to speed. The treatment, he argues in this book, will require nothing less than a drastic slowdown--we must reassert control over the technologies that now dominate us in order to insure a humane future for our children and ourselves. We live, according to Bertman, in a society ruled by the "power of now," a power that gives us instant gratification even as it demands our instantaneous obedience. As a result, we have adapted our lives and values to match the speed-of-light electronic technologies that surround us. But, in so doing, we have paid a high price in spirit and mind. Cut off from the wisdom of the past and too rushed to consider the consequences of our actions, we are caught up in a culture of sensationalism and transience in which the very definitions of personal identity and democracy are being transformed. Hyperculture dares to suggest that the cure for our condition lies not in an "information superhighway" or "third wave information revolution," but in the radical and painful process of decelerating our lives enough to reclaim them. It is a daunting challenge, to be sure, but one on which our happiness and even our survival depend....
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Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Authors: Paperback, 408 pagesPublisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 2002-02-11 Reviews :
The Climate Change 2001 volumes of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive assessment of climate change since its second report, Climate Change 1995. This Synthesis Report gives a comprehensive summary of the main points of the three separate volumes of the Report: The Scientific Basis; Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Mitigation....
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Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe
Authors: Jean-Noel Jeanneney. Paperback, 108 pagesPublisher: University Of Chicago Press Publication Date: 2007-10-15 Reviews :
The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long-dreamed-of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing.
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as a far more troubling aspect of Google’s Library Project: its potential to misrepresent—and even damage—the world’s cultural heritage. In this impassioned work, Jeanneney argues that Google’s unsystematic digitization of books from a few partner libraries and its reliance on works written mostly in English constitute acts of selection that can only extend the dominance of American culture abroad.
As a leading librarian, Jeanneney remains enthusiastic about the archival potential of the Web. But he argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google’s digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide—a serious effort to create a truly comprehensive library, one based on the politics of inclusion and multiculturalism.
“The president of the French national library has made himself the frontman in what he sees as a struggle to save cultural diversity. In the postmodern world, the battleground is the Internet. Here, search engines determine what tomorrow's generations will click on, learn and think.”—Financial Times ...
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ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (NVIDIA nForce4 SLI) Equipped with the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset, the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe is armed to provide hard-core gamers with great performance and a rich selection of features. While you won't go wrong with this one, there are some things that you might want to take note.
LifeDrive Update 1.0 Patch palmOne releases the LifeDrive Update 1.0, a small patch that fixes intermittent connectivity issues with these Wi-Fi routers: Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router, and Belkin High-Speed Mode Wireless G Router
Telephone Magic Brings Plug and Play VoIP Business Phone System to Small Business at Wholesale Prices Telephone Magic Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of the Venture IP line of VoIP phone systems to its leading telecommunications website http://www.telephonemagic.com.
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