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  1. Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century

    Spencer, David A.
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2022 1. edition

    Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer...

  2. Cyber Privacy : Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care

    Doss, April Falcon
    BenBella Books 2020

    "Chilling, eye-opening, and timely, Cyber Privacy makes a strong case for the urgent need to reform the laws and policies that protect our personal data. If your reaction to that s...

  3. How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy

    Odell, Jenny
    Melville House 2019

    ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New...

  4. New Dark Age : Technology and the End of the Future

    Bridle, James
    Tantor Media, Inc. 2019 Unabridged

    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 understan...

  5. Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus : New Human Frontiers

    Cameron, Nigel M. de S.
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2017 1. edition

    The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing c...

  6. The Inversion Factor : How to Thrive in the IoT Economy

    Bernardi, Linda; Sarma, Sanjay E.; Traub, Kenneth
    MIT Press 2017

    Why companies need to move away from a “product first” orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.In the past, companies found success with a product-first orientati...

  7. Net Smart : How to Thrive Online

    Rheingold, Howard
    MIT Press 2012

    A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded wi...

  8. Fighting Traffic : The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City

    Norton, Peter D.
    MIT Press 2011

    The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users o...

  9. Mobile Communication and Society : A Global Perspective

    Castells, Manuel; Fernandez-Ardevol, Mireia; Qiu, Jack Linchuan; Sey, Araba
    MIT Press 2009

    How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in t...

  10. Popular Science

    Camden Media Inc. 2021 Spring 2021

    This is the most exciting time to be alive in history. Discovery and innovation are reshaping the world around us, and Popular Science makes even the most complex ideas entertainin...