AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexity of language, and decides which of your friends' Facebook posts you most want to see. In the coming years, it...
Technology
- Author:Shane, JanelleSummary:
- Author:Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that...
- Author:Fox, ThomasSummary:
It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby...
- Author:Smith, BradSummary:
With a foreword by Bill Gates From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills even if the extreme steps taken by his battle-hardened mentor Herb, his police chief mom, and the other leaders in the name of security and...
- Author:Taylor, Charles, Cayley, DavidSummary:
In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as the corruption of the best is the worst, is...
- Author:Franklin, Ursula M.Summary:
In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World...
- Author:Drayden, NickySummary:
In South Africa, the future looks promising. In the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming, thanks to the genetic engineering industry, which has found a welcome home there. But, there are significant challenges...
- Author:Klise, KateSummary:
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
- Author:Erickson, JohnSummary:
A fifth-generation Texan and longtime cattle rancher, John R. Erickson is the Lamplighter Award-winning author of over 50 books on Western life. In The Modern Cowboy, he paints a vivid and comprehensive portrait of today's cowboy- with...
- Author:Crook, ChristinaSummary:
The author examines how the new technological world impacts our lives.
- Author:Zuboff, ShoshanaSummary:
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our...
- Author:Grant, GeorgeSummary:
In six magnificent essays, George Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. Admirers of Grant's English-Speaking Justice will welcome this exploration of the fate of traditional values in modern...
- Author:Grady, Wayne, Springer, JaneSummary:
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail....
- Author:Tymony, CySummary:
As the eighth book in Cy Tymony's Sneaky Uses series Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things includes never-before-seen activities, including Sneaky Fashion such as Light-up Nails and Sneaky Belts and Bracelets. Over 30 new inventions are...
- Author:de Lint, CharlesSummary:
"At the heart of Spirits in the Wires are Saskia Madding and Christiana Tree, both of whom are tied to a perennial Newford character, the writer Christy Riddell. Are either Saskia or Christiana real? Christy's girlfriend...
- Author:Dickner, NicolasSummary:
Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former...
- Author:Minter, AdamSummary:
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places eager to reuse what you don't want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter...
- Author:Mills, KyleSummary:
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group, Covert-One. It's activated only as a last resort, when the...
- Author:Sherman, RogerSummary:
Pocket Posh Guide to Great Home Video offers straightforward and easily understood advice on how to shoot just about any type of video footage. This title includes illustrated step-by-step instructions and Roger Sherman's 10 Shots/...
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