"The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of the technologies behind the creation of th…
"Argues that technology is culture, saturating the world so that technology has become the dominant discourse in politics, medicine, the media, religion, and everyday life."
"Argues that technology is culture, saturating the world so that technology has become the dominant discourse in politics, medicine, the media, religion, and everyday life."
Le mouvement de numérisation à l'oeuvre depuis une trentaine d'années gagne aujourd'hui des pans de plus en plus étendus de la réalité via l'extension des capteurs et des objets connectés. Dorénavant, les flux de data témoignent de la quasi-intégralité des phénomènes, s'érigeant…
"Le mouvement de numérisation à l'oeuvre depuis une trentaine d'années gagne aujourd'hui des pans de plus en plus étendus de la réalité via l'extension des capteurs et des objets connectés. Dorénavant, les flux de data témoignent de la quasi-intégralité des phénomènes, s'érigean…
We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosoph…
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 co…
"Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries, beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending wit…
