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| How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. The author offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. He says the future will bring user-alterable, baroquely...
Reveals the interdisciplinary field of networks, which changes how we look at social, financial and technological interactions in modern... Technology has changed what it means for communities to "be together." Digital tools are now part of most communities' habitats. This book...
Leading scientific theorist Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that... In this new work, the conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm...
For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this...
This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras,... From sundials to digital watches, smoke signals to cell phones, the telegraph to text messaging, technology has eased many aspects of daily...
An overview of telerobotics and an introduction to telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in...
Cultural Studies. David Watson's wide-ranging essays ponder such themes as the state, empire and war, humanity's tragic relation to the... An examination of young people's everyday new media practices--including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and...
The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle... Going beyond the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide" to analyze the relationship between access to information and communication...
Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting... In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and...
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