The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes of contemporary digital technologies. Such technology has b…
"Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worse. Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word "code" makes it sound immutable or even inevi…
The first line of code / Elena Botella -- Monte Carlo algorithms : random numbers in computing from the H-Bomb to today / Benjamin Pope -- Jean Sammet and the code that runs the world / Claire Evans. "Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind …
"Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worse. Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word "code" makes it sound immutable or even inevi…
"Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worse. Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word "code" makes it sound immutable or even inevi…
"Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worse. Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word "code" makes it sound immutable or even inevi…
"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency" "A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, wo…
"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"-- "A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, …
"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"-- "A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, …
"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"-- "A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, …
"Presents a teen-level view of stresses and joys behind digital screens, including peer relationships, conflict, digital footprints, and civic life"--
"From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us. The term "Metaverse" is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the …
"The authors of Machines Like Us explore what it would take to endow computers with the kind of common sense that humans depend on every day--critically needed for AI systems to be successful in the world and to become trustworthy"--
"Argues for a holistic view of the digital environment in which many of us now live, as neither determined by the features of technology nor uniformly negative for society"--
The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.
How we lost control of the internet-and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, iso…
"General introduction to the history of technology privileging a global view over typical Eurocentrist takes on the subject"--
Encouraging us to look beyond the seemingly limitless supply of multimedia content, David Arditi calls attention to the underlying dynamics of instant viewing - in which our access to our favourite binge-worthy show, blockbuster movie or hot new album release depends on any give…
