Impact of Science & Technology on Society

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells de...

An advanced look at smart technology to promote the independence of the elderly and disabled Ongoing research and advancements in technology are e...

We live in an age saturated with images. Video screens loop multimillion dollar ads while we sit in the back of taxis. Teenagers scavenge through p...

The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American storytelling. Mailboxes burgeoned with pulp magazines, conveying an endless va...

"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lea...

This recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.Wh...

Cross-Pollinations is a book about dissolving boundaries and blending disciplines to reveal a world rich in possibility, one where unthinkable solu...

Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company names Xiaomi (which means "little rice" in Mandarin) ...

How should we think about these radical technologies? Too often our social reactions to new technologies occur only in hindsight, after a technolog...

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their envir...

Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argu...

Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers we...

Today's ubiquitous computing technology is imbedded in everyday objects from cars to clothes to shipping containers, whose location, context, and s...

From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassro...

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the inte...

In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in the hands of a philosopher, and the result is a timely and urgent argument about t...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, geneti...

'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans against machines' GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical ...