Impact of Science & Technology on Society

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined...

Imagine a world where the normal human life span is 150 years, where worn-out vital organs are routinely replaced by spares, where after death you ...

The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion t...

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular...

Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public a...

For four decades now, information and communication technologies have been seen as principal drivers of socio-economic change. Stimulated in recent...

This text suggests solutions to the obstacles facing the USA and European Union as they race to secure their positions in the global information ag...

Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at...

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of ep...

This volume of "Research in Philosophy and Technology" is guest edited by Marina Banchetti-Robino in association with Don E. Marietta Jr. and Leste...

This volume provides an analysis of the relationship between technology, ethics and culture. Topics covered in this title include: environmental et...

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concept...

Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our ...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new information technologies and their impact on contemporary culture, and recent transfo...

This collection of readings, published for the first time in any language, presents a selection of critical responses to the original publication o...

A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and ...

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be in...

The book is a translation of the second edition of a much-used and research-based Chinese textbook. As a succinct and issue-based introduction to t...

Whether you are a student or an established scientist, researcher, or engineer, you can learn to be more innovative. In Innovation Generation, inte...

An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig eco...

This reference book is divided into these sections: Agriculture, Art and music, Business and finance, Clothing, Communications, Education, Energy, ...

Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of intervie...