Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is Creepy, a sharp and often funny in...

A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives ...

Scientists and engineers have long been aware of the tension between narrow specialization and multidisciplinary cooperation, but now a major trans...

Warrior Geeks examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, taking three major changes that are driving this proces...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer conte...

In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fatef...

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

What can the human brain and its relationship to the internet tell us about our society, our technologies, and our businesses? A lot, as it turns o...

Affective Computing is a growing multidisciplinary field encompassing computer science, engineering, psychology, education, neuroscience, and many ...

A guided tour through the Internet of Things, a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work...

Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challeng...

This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty year...

In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their p...

The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no at...

What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political mo...

''Reading it will change the way you think about the universe'' Sean CarrollIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmente...

'Thrilling, inspiring and informative page-turner.' Walter Isaacson, author of The Code BreakerYou know what went wrong.This is the untold story of...

Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the worlds major innovation hubs ...

Science at the Frontiers: Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Science brings new voices to the study of the history and philosophy of sci...