Future Hype

Author : Bob Seidensticker
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781609943479

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Future Hype by Bob Seidensticker Pdf

This fascinating look at innovations past and present—and our sometimes mistaken beliefs about them—“puts technological change into historical perspective” (Henry Petroski, author of The Evolution of Useful Things). Everyone knows that today’s rate of technological change is unprecedented. With breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the social impact of technology has never been as profound or overwhelming. But how much is truth and how much is hype? Future Hype surveys the past few hundred years to show that many of the technologies we now take for granted transformed society in far more dramatic ways than more recent developments so often touted as unparalleled and historic. In this thoughtful book, Bob Seidensticker exposes the hidden costs of technology—and helps both consumers and businesses take a shrewder position when the next “essential” innovation is trotted out.

Author : Bob Seidensticker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442963115

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Futurehype by Bob Seidensticker Pdf

Most people feel certain that the pace of technological change increases exponentially. They think that the Internet and personal computers are only the most prominent of the many innovations that surge around us and that new ones arrive ever faster. They're certain that never before has the social impact of technological change been as profound or as pervasive as it is today. But they are wrong. The Internet isn't that big a deal. Neither is the PC. Abandon all technology and live in the woods for a week and see if it's your laptop you miss most. In fact, the technologies most important to us are the older ones - the car and telephone, electricity and concrete, textiles and agriculture, to name just a few. The popular perception of modern technology is inflated and out of step with reality. We overestimate the importance of new and exciting inventions, and we underestimate those we've grown up with. Change is not increasing exponentially. In fact, technology has disoriented and delighted for centuries. This book will attempt to recalibrate your thinking by looking at how technological change really happens....If people see technology more clearly, we would have a shrewder citizenry that would demand practical and constructive, rather than expedient or convenient, decisions from their politicians. They would be more able to analyze and discuss the relevant technology issues of the day - from the digital divide, to government support for space and other science programs, to national defense, to the value of computers in schools - and weigh more knowledgeably the pros and cons of what is being offered....Over three decades ago, Future Shock by Alvin Toffler created a sensation by portraying technology spinning out of society's control. Future Hype approaches the same topic but reaches a very different conclusion: that the popular view of technological change is wrong and the future won't be so shocking. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Author : Tapani Ryhänen,Mikko A. Uusitalo,Olli Ikkala,Asta Kärkkäinen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139483766

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Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices by Tapani Ryhänen,Mikko A. Uusitalo,Olli Ikkala,Asta Kärkkäinen Pdf

Explore the potential for nanotechnologies to transform future mobile and Internet communications. Based on a research collaboration between Nokia, Helsinki University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge, here leading researchers review the current state-of-the art and future prospects for: • Novel multifunctional materials, dirt repellent, self-healing surface materials, and lightweight structural materials capable of adapting their shape • Portable energy storage using supercapacitor-battery hybrids based on new materials including carbon nanohorns and porous electrodes, fuel cell technologies, energy harvesting and more efficient solar cells • Electronics and computing advances reaching beyond IC scaling limits, new computing approaches and architectures, embedded intelligence and future memory technologies. • Nanoscale transducers for mechanical, optical and chemical sensing, sensor signal processing, and nanoscale actuation • Nanoelectronics to create ultrafast and adaptive electronics for future radio technologies • Flat panel displays with greater robustness, improved resolution, brightness and contrast, and mechanical flexibility • Manufacturing and innovation processes, plus commercialization of nanotechnologies.

Author : Robert B. Seidensticker
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781442963078

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Future Hype by Robert B. Seidensticker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442963139

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Futurehype (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Lunenfeld
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621584

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Snap to Grid by Peter Lunenfeld Pdf

A vibrant guide to the artistic, cultural, and social faces of the new media.

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509548910

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Making Sense of AI by Anthony Elliott Pdf

Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different spheres and aspects of public and private life. Among the issues discussed are the automation of workforces, surveillance capitalism, warfare and lethal autonomous weapons, the spread of racist robots and the automation of social inequalities. Elliott also considers the decisive role of AI in confronting global risks and social futures, including global pandemics such as COVID-19, and how smart algorithms are impacting the search for energy security and combating climate change. Making Sense of AI provides a judiciously comprehensive account of artificial intelligence for those with little or no previous knowledge of the topic. It will be an invaluable book both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for general readers.

Author : Ellen Rose
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781896357799

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User Error by Ellen Rose Pdf

User Error doesn't argue that we should simply reject computers, but neither does it uncritically embrace the current state of affairs but offers other options.

Author : Megan Sapnar Ankerson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479882182

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Dot-Com Design by Megan Sapnar Ankerson Pdf

From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industry In the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal boxes, billboards, and film trailers, the web changed the way many Americans experienced media, socialized, and interacted with brands. Businesses rushed online to set up corporate “home pages” and as a result, a new cultural industry was born: web design. For today’s internet users who are more familiar sharing social media posts than collecting hotlists of cool sites, the early web may seem primitive, clunky, and graphically inferior. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, this pre-crash era was dubbed “Web 1.0,” a retronym meant to distinguish the early web from the social, user-centered, and participatory values that were embodied in the internet industry’s resurgence as “Web 2.0” in the 21st century. Tracking shifts in the rules of “good web design,” Ankerson reimagines speculation and design as a series of contests and collaborations to conceive the boundaries of a new digitally networked future. What was it like to go online and “surf the Web” in the 1990s? How and why did the look and feel of the web change over time? How do new design paradigms like user-experience design (UX) gain traction? Bringing together media studies, internet studies, and design theory, Dot-com Design traces the shifts in, and struggles over, the web’s production, aesthetics, and design to provide a comprehensive look at the evolution of the web industry and into the vast internet we browse today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Anarcho-primitivism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven H. Propp
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475958730

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Liberty Means Freedom for All by Steven H. Propp Pdf

Thomas Anderson has just graduated from CSU Stentoria, with his degree in Political Science. Its an election year, and as a young progressive in California who has been raised by equally progressive parents, he is very much concerned with the political issues currently being discussed in the mass media. A chance encounter with a fellow graduate named Kelly Kelso, however, shakes up his sett led view of the world. He is challenged to examine the rising number of alternatives to the two-party system presented by third party movements such as the Libertarian Party and the Green Party, and is forced to acknowledge that there is far more to politics than simply Democrat versus Republican, and liberal versus conservative. Thomas delves energetically into not only the growing Libertarian movement, but the free market perspective of the Austrian School of economics, as well as the rigid yet compelling view of Ayn Rands philosophy of Objectivism. His explorations grow wider, now encompassing the Tea Party movement and the Christi an Right; tax resisters and gun rights advocates; survivalists and militia members; anarchists, communists, and Democratic Socialists; as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement. He debates the radical environmental views of animal welfare and animal rights advocates, and challenges opponents of corporate globalism as well as deniers of global warming, as he struggles to reformulate and articulate his own developing beliefs, while coping with a sea of conflicting ideas and opposition. But this abstract political theory is brought into sharp encounter with concrete political reality, when Thomas hears a news report of an armed conflict with authorities taking place just outside of town, involving someone with whom he has become emotionally involved

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1845 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522554707

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Virtual and Augmented Reality: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Virtual and augmented reality is the next frontier of technological innovation. As technology exponentially evolves, so do the ways in which humans interact and depend upon it. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the trends, techniques, and uses of virtual and augmented reality in various fields, and examines the benefits and challenges of these developments. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as human-computer interaction, digital self-identity, and virtual reconstruction, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for researchers, academics, professionals, theorists, students, and practitioners interested in emerging technology applications across the digital plane.

Author : Baggio, Bobbe Gaines
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466699007

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Analyzing Digital Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments by Baggio, Bobbe Gaines Pdf

Though humans have been communicating through virtual mediators since the invention of the telephone, new technologies make the use of virtual communications even more immediate and pervasive than ever before. By understanding the theories and models behind virtual communication, one can understand the way society has been changed and how it will continue to do so. Analyzing Digital Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments examines the implications of virtual communication and online interaction and the theories and trends associated with them. It will discuss and address the differences and challenges that develop when communicating virtually and explore the various influences virtual communication plays in work, education, and quotidian life. This title provides a foundation of emerging trends from which new theories and models of communication can grow. This book will become a cherished resource for academics, researchers, technology developers, students, and government or institutional leaders.

Author : Charles Camic,Neil Gross,Michèle Lamont
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226092102

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Social Knowledge in the Making by Charles Camic,Neil Gross,Michèle Lamont Pdf

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444356571

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Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy by Jason T. Eberl Pdf

PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE “The contributors to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy strive to make things relevant to fans of the show, and they put their information out in a way that is accessible to folks who wouldn't know Heidegger from Heineken.” Green Man Review, Spring 2009 "The writers are well versed in their subjects...The book is most effective at making the reader rethink what they thought they knew." Neo-opsis What’s the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel’s critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica. More than just an action-packed “space opera,” each episode offers a dramatic character study of the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers as they confront existential, moral, metaphysical, theological, and political crises. This volume addresses some of the key questions to which the Colonials won’t find easy answers, even when they reach Earth: Are Cylons persons? Is Baltar’s scientific worldview superior to Six’s religious faith? Can Starbuck be free if she has a special destiny? Is it ethical to cut one’s losses and leave people behind? Is collaboration with the enemy ever the right move? Is humanity a “flawed creation?” Should we share the Cylon goal of “transhumanism?” Is it really a big deal that Starbuck’s a woman?