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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.
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OneWorld Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology, Mark Boyle explores the hard won joys of building...
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"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, 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....
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Through The Power of Off, she offers us a path for making use of the virtual world while still feeling good, having healthy relationships, and staying connected with what is genuinely meaningful in life..."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; cm
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A literary and cultural critic turns his attention to social networking and its continued evolution, urging users to take back ownership of their digital lives from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them.
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Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
ix, 339 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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"The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life are being transformed. But who are these wired young people? And what is the world they're creating going to look like? In this revised and updated edition, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
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"A globe-spanning investigation into the Transhumanist movement, considering the tech billionaires, scientific luminaries, and DIY body-hackers attempting to prolong, improve, and ultimately transcend the limits of human life"--
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
305 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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From an award-winning journalist comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
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"Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes us on a provocative and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a strategy for living in our 24/7 world: turning off all screens for twenty-four hours each week. This practice, which she's done for nearly a decade with her husband and kids (sixteen and ten), has completely changed their lives, giving them more time, productivity, connection, and presence. She and her...
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Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?
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