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...
Technology and civilization
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Author:Doctorow, Cory, Stross, CharlesSummary: -
Author:McCutcheon, Mark A.Summary:Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel...
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Author:Kern, StephenSummary: - Author:Grant, GeorgeSummary:
George Grant -- philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist -- was one of Canada's most significant thinkers and the author of Lament for a Nation. In Technology and Empire, Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has...
- 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:Ellul, Jacques, Vanderburg, Willem H.Summary:
Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight...
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Author:Juma, CalestousSummary:Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's biggest policy...
- Author:Nowak, PeterSummary:
Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-...
- Author:Yuval Noah HarariSummary:
From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explores the future of the human species.
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief...
