Authors: Bryan Bergeron.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication Date: 2001-09
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Author shows why our data is at far greater risk than we've ever imagined, and envisions a frightening future, where so much critical information is lost that civilization itself could collapse. Bergeron examines how we're storing our most precious data. Softcover. ...

Authors: Jan Harrington.
Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Publication Date: 2008-08-21
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Technology and Society provides a broad, balanced perspective on the impact of technology on global society since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Its organization reflects the many facets of our world that have felt the effects of technology; economics, government, the arts, and interpersonal communications. Discussion of the many technology issues of today - particularly privacy and society - appear in every chapter as they relate to the topics at hand. Throughout the text readers will find hundreds of Web links and references to additional material. Things to Think About sections appear at the end of each chapter and urge students to think and write critically about a variety of technological topics. Ideal for use in numerous courses taught throughout the Computer Science curriculum, Technology and Society will help students turn outward from their technical studies and look at technology from a global perspective....

Authors: Terry Halbert. Elaine Ingulli.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: South-Western College/West
Publication Date: 2004-04-28
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    This unique textbook provides a framework for discussing ethical dilemmas related to today's computer technology and the Internet. Each chapter begins with a case study, based on an actual legal or business scenario. Interdisciplinary readings, questions, and exercises, written and Internet, help students develop a more complete understanding of the material. This book is appropriate for Business Law, Information Systems, Management, and Ethics course areas....

Authors: Rudy Rucker. R. U. Sirius. Queen Mu.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Perennial
Publication Date: 1992-11
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    An introduction to the coming revolution in art, technology, media, chemistry, science, and music discusses amino chemistry, manotechnology, high-tech paganism, teledildonics, and more. $75,000 ad/promo....

Authors:
Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2008-03-07


Reviews :

    This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing.

• Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field.
  
• Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject.
  
• Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving.
  
• Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.

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Authors: David Alan Grier.
Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 2007-08-27


Reviews :

   

Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology.

Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world.

The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration.

When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.

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Authors: Tsagarousianou.
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1998-02-03
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Cyberdemocracy is a study of the potential for "electronic democracy" through the examination of case studies in US and European cities and civic projects. It aims to strike a balance between enthusiastic and dismissive approaches to "electronic democracy." The authors consider the impact of new technology with regard to the history of broadcasting and communications technology--in particular, the ways in which the principles and requirements of public service and universal access will, or will not be maintained.

This is a vigorous contribution to a vital debate about the state of democracy and the impact of communications technology. It will be essential reading for both students and policy makers....

Authors: Flo Conway. Jim Siegelman.
Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2006-08-28


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Authors: Tom Masters.
Perfect Paperback, 150 pages
Publisher: Orion Wellspring, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-08-10
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    The first blogs appeared only a few years ago; today there are over 50 million blogs and counting. Blogs are being used by political candidates to debate issues, by consumer advocates to evaluate products and services, by writers and artists to communicate with their audiences and by individuals to share their everyday experiences. In this lively and informative introduction to blogging, Tom Masters takes you step-by-step through the process of planning, building and managing your blog. In Blogging Quick & Easy, you will discover: How others are using blogs How blogs work and the different types of blogging tools Blog writing techniques that attract readers Tips to help you reach more readers How to track and measure your readership How you can earn income from your blog Blogging is a powerful new way to communicate your ideas to a large audience. But it takes careful planning and management to realize the potential of this new medium. Blogging Quick & Easy helps you understand and apply proven techniques to make your blog stand out from the crowd....

Authors: Peter Lunenfeld.
Paperback, 172 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2005-08-01


Reviews :

    In these essays, Peter Lunenfeld does theory and criticism "in real time," looking at (among other subjects) art, video games, book design, "techno-masturbation," The Matrix, and life extension diets. "Readers will have to determine for themselves," he writes, "if this range is symptomatic of pluralism or promiscuity." User illuminates the patterns and repetitions that link—for example—nanotechnology to electronic music, artist/archivist Harry Smith to architect/superstar Rem Koolhaas, Pontiacs to open source software. And User offers a reading experience that is more vivid than most: Mieke Gerritzen's bold visuals create a book that is also a designed object—a compact matrix of words and image as potent as a smart bomb.

User is not a manifesto. Lunenfeld means these essays—which were written originally for the international magazine artext—to be translator utilities, bridging the gap between the art world and the design establishment, between journalism and the seminar room. Pondering the "permanent present" of today's visual culture, Lunenfeld blames the twenty-first century's inability to imagine the future on a movie and an interface: the too-influential aesthetic of Blade Runner and the ubiquitous desktop of nested files, icons, trash cans, and cascading windows, he argues, have become impediments to our thinking beyond the present. Lunenfeld writes about Euro-Disney, Matthew Barney, the VHS pornucopia that killed off Betamax, the computer as a "solitude enhancement machine," our embarrassing Y2K hysteria (when TEOTWAWKI—The End of the World As We Know It—didn't happen), and other faces of what he calls "that overwhelming diversity which for lack of a better term we call the present."...