Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. Thi...

Drawing on decades of research, The Extinction of Experience is a philosophical defence of what makes us human and a powerful, urgent call to recl...

One of the BBC's most anticipated books for 2024An i-D non-fiction book of 2024A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024'An essential book' i-DWhat happe...

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Ne...

The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits...

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Ne...

Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy....

Why collaborations in STEM fields succeed or fail and how to ensure successOnce upon a time, it was the lone scientist who achieved brilliant break...

Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are i...

China's rapid development in high-tech innovation, including high-speed rail, mobile internet applications, artificial intelligence, etc., has attr...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

This book is written by AutomationML experts that have industrially implemented AutomationML in pattern solutions for a large variety of applicatio...

This book provides the fundamental underlying mathematical theory, numerical algorithms and effi cient computational tools for the solution of mult...

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also u...

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also u...

This book provides application of multi criteria decision making techniques for managerial discretion. With this book, a concerted platform has bee...

A focus on methods can currently be observed in all subfields of linguistics. Rarely, however, is a perspective taken that integrates these individ...

We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?For decades we've ...

The aim of the book is to help students become data scientists. Since this requires a series of courses over a considerable period of time, the boo...

This book contains 34 technical papers presented at the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference held in Stuttgart 2023. Modern geometric com...

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? An...

This book covers the emerging applications of different computational and optimization techniques in order to achieve a sustainable agriculture. A ...

This book is a beginner's guide to AutomationML Edition 2, written for students, engineers, lecturers, developers and those interested. In guides t...

This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact of American views of religious faith and s...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological a...

While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the ...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformati...

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropr...