Impact of Science & Technology on Society

How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio...

Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on priv...

''''A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity'''' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our wor...

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, telev...

____________________What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-fri...

A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can s...

'Enter Ormerod's vital manual' - Pandora Sykes'A statistic-packed investigation into a worldwide phenomenon... It is no exaggeration to say this bo...

Is my experience real?Or just a movie in my head?Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happen...

Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, ths study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that tim...

Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ens...

'Thrilling... The dizzying story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been gi...

If work is hell, what is working from home? Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of the transition to the digital age t...

In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and...

The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real eff...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a se...

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country''s ability to acquire kno...

Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Timothy McGettigan's Good Science develops a ground-breaking...

The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable televis...

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding soc...

Only someone from the corporate inside could explain how Yahoo!-one of the greatest brands in corporate history-could rise to the greatest height e...

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When The Best Technology Series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make...

A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appea...

An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connectio...

A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools. Schools ...

Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment   In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examine...

This guide explores ways in which graphic designers can successfully collaborate with other creative professionals and sectors, whether it be a mor...

With at least seven billion subscriptions worldwide, the impact of mobile devices undoubtedly rivals that of television, radio, and newspapers. Mob...