Impact of Science & Technology on Society

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications ...

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications ...

From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for g...

For most of human experience, certainly of late, the artifacts of technological civilization have become closely associated with gender, sometimes ...

From the very beginnings of their existence, human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals by not taking immediate experience for g...

In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wages stagnation ha...

Emphasizing an interdisciplinary and international coverage of the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture, Science,...

Genetic sciences are creating technologies that radically influence our understanding of life, death and what it is to be human. The current policy...

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually bo...

The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's fam...

First published in 1989, this book presents a unique comparative perspective on the relationship between technological change and human resource ma...

This special issue of American Quarterly asks powerful and poignant questions about technology and its effects on our bodies, minds, families, eco...

Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key...

Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key...

E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent of the modern ...

Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key...

'[It] does a great service in making available a clear set of critiques of the headlong rush into a planned and administered future, while at the s...

In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future o...

Although advanced technologies are the cornerstone of modern life, few people understand how such technologies as robotics or nuclear science actua...

What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial ...

In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as p...

Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking under the weight of m...

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today—as on...

Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-colour, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipr...

A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human A daring, original work of philosophical speculation, Neurotechnolog...

A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human A daring, original work of philosophical speculation, Neurotechnolog...

Global instantaneous mobile telephony is at the cutting edge of the communications revolution. Humanity, for Martin Heidegger, is 'the entity that ...

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 5...

One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientist...

In his visionary new book George Gilder brilliantly and persuasively outlines the sweeping new developments in computer and fiber optic technology ...

A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field.For many aspects of h...

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo...

In 1969, Jon Beckwith and his colleagues succeeded in isolating a gene from the chromosome of a living organism. Announcing this startling achievem...

Separating truth from hype, this book introduces readers to the topic of life extension in a holistic manner that provides scientific, historical, ...