From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes...
Technological innovations
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Auteur:Pinsker, SarahSommaire: - Auteur:Morozov, EvgenySommaire:
In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways...
- Auteur:Liu, CixinSommaire:
A short story collection from New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu. The title story, "The Wandering Earth," was a blockbuster international film, currently streaming on Netflix. These 11 stories, including five Chinese...
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Auteur:Doctorow, Cory, Stross, CharlesSommaire:At the dusk of the twenty-first century, the splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system sometimes spams Earth's networks with plans for disastrously disruptive technologies. It is the job of Tech Jury Service to assess new...
- Auteur:Winchester, SimonSommaire:
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage...
- Auteur:Barnatt, ChristopherSommaire:
The Next Big Thing explores future revolutions that will determine how things are made, who we share the planet with, where resources come from, and the evolution of the human species. Beyond 2030, the way we live today will no longer...
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Auteur:Mokyr, JoelSommaire: - Auteur:Brose, ChristianSommaire:
From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone...
- Auteur:Hamel, GarySommaire:
Hamel provides forward-thinking companies with a disciplined process for radical management innovation, in other words, a formula for success.
- Auteur:Kotler, Steven, Diamandis, Peter H.Sommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler...
- Auteur:Soni, JimmySommaire:
"Deeply reported and bracingly written, this book is an indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Code Breaker. A definitive look at the origin of...
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Auteur:Venkatraman, VenkatSommaire:Is your business ready to win in the digital future?or destined to be disrupted?
Ambitious digital-driven startups are now creating and cornering new markets in every sector. And yet, most legacy businesses continue to operate by... -
Auteur:Barnhizer, Daniel D., Barnhizer, DavidSommaire:As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels--underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack...
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Auteur:Hanson, RobinSommaire:Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations, or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and...
- Auteur:Rushkoff, DouglasSommaire:
"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."'Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...
- Auteur:Christensen, Clayton M.Sommaire:
Internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present this groundbreaking guide for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry.
- Auteur:Ramji, ShaziaSommaire:
The poems in Port of Being hold modern technology--surveillance, shipping, the Internet--to examine communication, migration, and identity. Preoccupied with the city, virtuality, reflexivity, and the ways we watch ourselves, Shazia...
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Auteur:Slade, GilesSommaire:If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the...
- Auteur:Jones-Imhotep, Edward, Adcock, TinaSommaire:
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern draws together leading scholars from a wide...
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Auteur:Wooldridge, Connie NordhielmSommaire:Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.
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