Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Hailed as the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound ...

In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! play...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous i...

From science channels and documentaries to fictional and children's programming, television brings a myriad of scientific discoveries and theories ...

Why is science so powerful? Why did it take so longtwo thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematicsfor the human race to star...

Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety ...

**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN ''BOOK OF 2021''** ''Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting'' HELEN MACDONALD, New York Tim...

The past decade has seen the relentless rise of cryptocurrency as an alternative form of digital currency. But what precisely is it and what potent...

Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara s...

This book is an organizational study of the social aspects of science in India focusing on the determinants of productivity of Indian scientists. T...

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of machines that think. Stephen Hawki...

The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our e...

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light. Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises ...

'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'B...

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transf...

This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on iss...

Experts offer strategies for managing people in technocentric times. In these technocentric times, it is more important than ever to manage peop...

Know technology today, to equip yourself for tomorrow. Using a unique, visual approach, Gerald Lynch explains the most important tech developments ...

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf po...

Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and ...

Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand...

A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. T...

The incredible and inspiring book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinar...

'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rorys writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the read...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...

Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life wi...

Scientifica Historica is an illustrated, accessible review of those books that marked the development of science from ancient civilizations to the ...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. H...