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Download or read book Enjoying Machines written by Barry Brown and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that pleasure is a fundamental part of why we use technology, and a framework for understanding the relationship between pleasure and technology. The dominant feature of modern technology is not how productive it makes us, or how it has revolutionized the workplace, but how enjoyable it is. We take pleasure in our devices, from smartphones to personal computers to televisions. Whole classes of leisure activities rely on technology. How has technology become such an integral part of enjoyment? In this book, Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin examine the relationship between pleasure and technology, investigating what pleasure and leisure are, how they have come to depend on the many forms of technology, and how we might design technology to support enjoyment. They do this by studying the experience of enjoyment, documenting such activities as computer gameplay, deer hunting, tourism, and television watching. They describe technologies that support these activities, including prototype systems that they themselves developed. Brown and Juhlin argue that pleasure is fundamentally social in nature. We learn how to enjoy ourselves from others, mastering it as a set of skills. Drawing on their own ethnographic studies and on research from economics, psychology, and philosophy, Brown and Juhlin argue that enjoyment is a key concept in understanding the social world. They propose a framework for the study of enjoyment: the empirical program of enjoyment.
Book Synopsis The Everyday Workings of Machines by : Steve Martin
Download or read book The Everyday Workings of Machines written by Steve Martin and published by Ivy Kids. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of fascinating information and colorful graphics the pages reveal the science behind how many of today's machines work.
Book Synopsis Soft Machines by : Richard A. L. Jones
Download or read book Soft Machines written by Richard A. L. Jones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision. But is their vision realistic? Where is the science heading? As nanotechnology (a new technology that many believe will transform society in the next one hundred years) rises higher in the news agenda and popular consciousness, there is a real need for a book which discusses clearly the science on which this technology will be based. Whilst it is most easy to simply imagine these tiny machines as scaled-down versions of the macroscopic machines we are all familiar with, the way things behave on small scales is quite different to the way they behave on large scales. Engineering on the nanoscale will use very different principles to those we are used to in our everyday lives, and the materials used in nanotehnology will be soft and mutable, rather than hard and unyielding. "Soft Machines" explains in a lively and very accessible manner why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world which we are all familiar with. Why does nature engineer things in the way it does, and how can we learn to use these unfamiliar principles to create valuable new materials and artefacts which will have a profound effect on medicine, electronics, energy and the environment in the twenty-first century. With a firmer understanding of the likely relationship between nanotechnology and nature itself, we can gain a much clearer notion of what dangers this powerful technology may potentially pose, as well as come to realise that nanotechnology will have more in common with biology than with conventional engineering.
Download or read book Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding. Set in an uncanny alternative 1982 London—where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence—Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart—and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human—our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!
Book Synopsis Learning Management Back from Machines by : Muthukrishnan Kalyanasundaram
Download or read book Learning Management Back from Machines written by Muthukrishnan Kalyanasundaram and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology driven witty solutions to everyday Managerial Problems Like it is often told “Solutions at your doorstep”, we are completely surrounded by profound managerial solutions waiting to be unearthed from our everyday machines in the form of phones, computers, safety devices, automobile etc. The world of machines abounds with managerial thoughts and solutions. This inspiring book provides us with a new approach in problem solving and addresses the diverse challenges faced in managerial functions today. “Learning Management Back From Machines”, is the wonderful story of Krish and his latest creation, MANU – an advanced hyper-intelligent, direct-neural interface-capable humanoid, which helps Krish along in deriving managerial solutions from fellow-machines and machine-processes alike. In the process of learning and observing the history of various technological marvels along with the need for these inventions, we discover a whole new dimension of creative intelligence and learning, waiting to reveal itself all over again. The book is aimed at understanding the core essence of how machines have been made to work and help us discover new and innovative solutions to our everyday social and managerial problems. • RELIGIONS TEACH US MANAGEMENT. • STORIES AND FABLES TEACH US MANAGEMENT. • MANAGEMENT THEORIES TEACH US MANAGEMENT. • NOW EVERYDAY MACHINES WILL TEACH US MANAGEMENT
Book Synopsis Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows by : Tom DeLonge
Download or read book Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows written by Tom DeLonge and published by To The Stars. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who know... that something is going on... The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what they’ve seen, and—like the toll of a bell that can’t be unrung—are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the 20th century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands—the truth that is out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of otherworldly technology and the competing aims of those who might seek to prevent—or harness—these beings of unfathomable power. Because, as it turns out, we are not the only ones who can invent and build...and destroy. Featuring actual events and other truths drawn from sources within the military and intelligence community, Tom DeLonge and A.J. Hartley offer a tale at once terrifying, fantastical, and perhaps all too real. Though it is, of course, a work of... fiction?
Download or read book Machinery written by Fred Herbert Colvin and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Machinery written by Lester Gray French and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Office Appliances; The Magazine of Office Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shoe Machinery Analyzed by : Alfred W. Donovan
Download or read book Shoe Machinery Analyzed written by Alfred W. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iron Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 2146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Machines written by Ruth Harrison and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, Ruth Harrison's book Animal Machines had a profound and lasting impact on world agriculture, public opinion and the quality of life of millions of farmed animals. Concerned with welfare standards at a time when animal production was increasing in scale and mechanization, Ruth Harrison set about investigating the situation in a fair and even-handed way. Reporting her findings in this book, Harrison alerted the public to the undeniable suffering of calves living in veal crates and birds in battery cages. Written at the beginning of the intensive farming movement, which promised progress but in reality worsened conditions for domesticated animals, Animal Machines provides a fascinating insight into the system we are living with today and must continue with as the global population increases. Harrison's work brought about legal reforms, a greater understanding of farm conditions for animals and increased public awareness. Animal Machines is reprinted here in its entirety, accompanied by new chapters by world-renowned experts in animal welfare discussing the legacy and impact of Animal Machines 50 years on.
Book Synopsis Commercial Bookbinding by : George Arthur Stephen
Download or read book Commercial Bookbinding written by George Arthur Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Machinery Market written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Hardware written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Start Your Own Vending Business 3/E by : Entrepreneur Press
Download or read book Start Your Own Vending Business 3/E written by Entrepreneur Press and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on getting started in the vending machine business, covering how to select products for machines, financing options, finding the best locations, industry trends, and using social media to increase the customer base.
Book Synopsis Machines Who Think by : Pamela McCorduck
Download or read book Machines Who Think written by Pamela McCorduck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry.
