Impact of Science & Technology on Society

We’re experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to...

With the COVID-19 crisis forcing us to reflect in a dramatic way on the limits of the human and the implications of the Anthropocene Age, this time...

A grand work of philosophy and history, The Many Faces of God shows how our religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and sc...

Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what ...

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices — computer and digital television screens, a...

The digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we relate to our perceptions and images. Daniel O'Shiel provides the first comprehensi...

In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as p...

Neue Werkstoffe und Technologien nehmen in der Architektur und im Design eine bedeutende Rolle ein. Umweltverträgliche Materialien und Produktions...

This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates cr...

We’re experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to...

Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence? And if so, could they be generated in a good and loving way? This study exp...

This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public while trying to cult...

Husserl’s Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century “classical” phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosoph...

Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fasc...

The word “biology” was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the...

2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers for their Annual Best Book Prize Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choic...

Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and dis...

The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for ma...

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the...

As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of automation and autonomy, debates over the ethics of violent technologies...

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the...

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist who places the human brain at the center of humanity’s universe Renowned neu...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In the...