Impact of Science & Technology on Society

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Weve all heard the statistics: animal agricultur...

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whe...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal cat...

The digital age.An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessl...

There can be no doubt that social media has fundamentally transformed how people relate to each other and navigate the social environment of the co...

The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a m...

Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm Dorian Lynskey Cooly prosecutorial Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didnt mean ...

This critical examination of two dystopian television seriesBlack Mirror and Electric Dreamsfocuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its...

Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an ...

Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an ...

Nicholas Carrs bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internets b...

The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced p...

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying fac...

From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow. On most mea...

We are living through years of great importance, marked by the unstoppable evolution of technology, science and the information society. This book ...

The seventh edition of BBVA's annual series is dedicated to analyzing the key issues of our time, with the objective of helping people understand t...

Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought ...