Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Runaway Technology
Download Runaway Technology full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Runaway Technology ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Runaway Technology by : Joshua A. T. Fairfield
Download or read book Runaway Technology written by Joshua A. T. Fairfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law can keep up with rapid technological change by reflecting our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.
Book Synopsis Runaway Technology by : Joshua A. T. Fairfield
Download or read book Runaway Technology written by Joshua A. T. Fairfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there's nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work, Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology - a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :522 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Technology Assessment by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
Download or read book Technology Assessment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Technology Assessment, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development...91-1, November 18, 24; December 2, 3, 4, 8, and 12, 1969 by : United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics
Download or read book Technology Assessment, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development...91-1, November 18, 24; December 2, 3, 4, 8, and 12, 1969 written by United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Software Runaways by : Robert L. Glass
Download or read book Software Runaways written by Robert L. Glass and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Software runaway war stories. Software runaway remedies. Conclusions.
Download or read book Biotechnology written by Nico Stehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor Volker Meja New scientific knowledge is no longer merely the key to unlocking the secrets of nature and society. It now represents the "becoming" of a new world. Scientific developments affect the ways in which we conduct our affairs, as well as how we comprehend the changes underway as the result of novel technical artefacts and scientific knowledge. The practical fruits of biotechnology are a case in point; they have grasped our imaginations, and generated worldwide debate and concern. Debates on biotechnology shift between images of utopia and dystopia. The social sciences deserve a voice in the debate, and can do so through sober examination of the economic, social, and cultural implications of biotechnology. Some economists even predict that the importance of biotechnology as the technology of the future will far exceed that of the information technologies, in particular the Internet. The contributors to this volume are drawn from a broad spectrum of the social sciences, and include Nico Stehr, Gene Rosa, Steve Fuller, Steve Best and Douglas Kellner, Nikolas Rose, Fred Buttel, Javier Lezaun, Anne Kerr, Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck, Martin Schulte, Alexander Somek, Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby Kinchy and Raul Necochea, Herbert Gottweis, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Gysli Pblsson, Elizabeth Ettore, Richard Hindmarch and Reiner Grundmann. The impact of science on society is destined to be a fundamental concern in the new century. This volume illustrates the contributions anthropology, law, political science, and sociology can make to the ongoing discussions about the role of biotechnology in modern societies. Nico Stehr is senior research associate, Institut for Technikfolgenabschotzung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Institut for Kostenforschung, GKSS, Germany. He also is a fellow in the Center for Advanced Cultural Studies in Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among his recent books are Werner Sombart: Economic Life in the Modern Age (with Reiner Grundmann, published by Transaction); The Fragility of Modern Societies: Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age; Knowledge and Economic Conduct: The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy; and Wissenspolitik: Die ?berwachung des Wissens.
Book Synopsis Plato and the Nerd by : Edward Ashford Lee
Download or read book Plato and the Nerd written by Edward Ashford Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering—creating technology—as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans. Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote. Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.
Book Synopsis The Technology Trap by : Carl Benedikt Frey
Download or read book The Technology Trap written by Carl Benedikt Frey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, Carl Benedikt Frey offers a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society's members. As the author shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population.These trends broadly mirror those in our current age of automation. But, just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. Benedikt Frey demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present. --From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence by : Columba Peoples
Download or read book Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence written by Columba Peoples and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.
Book Synopsis Postphenomenology and Technoscience by : Don Ihde
Download or read book Postphenomenology and Technoscience written by Don Ihde and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the future of phenomenological thought, accounting for how technology expands our means of experiencing the world.
Download or read book Publicity's Secret written by Jodi Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the information age.Dean's argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and technology, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media's insistence on the public's right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the theoretical ideal of the public sphere, in which all processes are transparent, reduces real-world politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery.
Book Synopsis Universities in the Age of Corporate Science by : Alan P. Rudy
Download or read book Universities in the Age of Corporate Science written by Alan P. Rudy and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asks the hard questions about partnerships between big business and American universities.
Download or read book NASA Tech Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Changing an Army by : William Eugene DePuy
Download or read book Changing an Army written by William Eugene DePuy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential Army leader records his views of recent Army history with particular emphasis on the war in Vietnam and the Steadfast reorganization.
Book Synopsis Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization by : K. Yuill
Download or read book Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization written by K. Yuill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.
Book Synopsis The Fourth Revolution by : Robert Vincent Daniels
Download or read book The Fourth Revolution written by Robert Vincent Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Revolution shows how the cyclical nature of social movements has come to define not only American history but also the nation's ideal of progress.
Book Synopsis Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science by : Hendrik B.G. Casimir
Download or read book Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science written by Hendrik B.G. Casimir and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An outstanding scientific autobiography... I remain impressed by its thoughtfulness and charm.” — Steve K. Lamoreaux, American Journal of Physics “[A] rich autobiography and history-of-atomic-physics... One is impressed by Casimir’s memory for detail and zeal to find corroboration for the stories he tells. And they are splendid tales: Gamow’s playful pranks in Copenhagen: conversations with Lev Landau, ardent revolutionary but no Marxist; the tragedy of Ehrenfest, who killed himself after shooting his hopelessly retarded son... A charming, idiosyncratic, and meaningful account of events and personalities that changed physics.” — Kirkus “I myself read [this book] with fascination, meeting old friends such as Gamow, Landau, Kramers, and learning much more about them... Also in the book are character sketches of those who made physics in the Netherlands such as Lorentz, Kamerlingh Onnes and Ehrenfest, the latter remembered with the greatest affection by the author.” — Sir Nevill Mott, Contemporary Physics “The book... contains a valuable, entertaining and insightful collection of vignettes of many of the physicists Casimir has associated with[,]... Lorentz, Ehrenfest, Bohr, Pauli, with whom he studied; Goudsmit, Uhlenbeck, Landau, Gamov, members of his own generation; Kramers, Gorter, de Haas, colleagues in Dutch academic circles; Holst and Loupart, colleagues at the Philips Laboratories. Haphazard Reality also offers valuable insights into Dutch middle class culture and a rewarding overview of Dutch educational and scientific establishments... Casimir is a master at deftly and sensitively conveying the psychological ambiance of his surroundings. His description of the brilliant young theoretical physicists around Bohr in the early thirties conveys not only the style of doing physics but also delineates the issues addressed by outlining the content of their researches.” — S. S. Schweber, 4S Review “Engaging reminiscences by an important Dutch physicist of conversations with the major contributors to 20th-century physics. An overly modest, but otherwise balanced account of his own experiences and contributions from his early years at Leiden to his directorship of the Philips Laboratory.” — The Antioch Review “Haphazard Reality paints a vivid and insightful picture of the development of modern physics.” — Steve K. Lamoreaux, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
