Impact of Science & Technology on Society

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...

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...