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Technospaces
Science and technology have had a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this book, an international team of authors explore themes of depth and surface,...
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to
We - the users turned creators and distributors of content - are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new...
Hyper/Text/Theory
In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland...
The Internet and Society
The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.
Reading Digital Culture
Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics...
Digital Encounters
Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art. In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter...
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart...
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it...
e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim -- But Not As We Know It"
How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television....
Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the
Explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communication to claims that cyberspace creates new realities. The book...
Technology as Experience
This book shows how to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience.In "Technology as Experience", John McCarthy and Peter Wright argue...
The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media
How pervasive digital devices-smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and their networks-us formulate a sense of place and refine social relationships How do pervasive digital devices-smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and...
Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds
This volume discusses the implications of teaching our computers and robots to think. The authors, a paleontologist and an artificial intelligence guru, team up to present some of the sociological,...
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Millions of people worldwide now interact via computers, often assuming personalities of their own creation, but what are the psychological effects of such game playing? This book examines the wonders...
Internet Culture
The internet has grown in recent years from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps the contours of this new domain...
Apple Confidential 2.0
Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up-from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to...
Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Why High Tech Products Drive Us
Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their...
Data Smog
The author of this text experienced a personal "awakening" from years of computer worship to the unwelcome side-effects of information mania. After confronting his own information anxieties and deflating what...
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Nowadays, computers are no longer given commands; instead we enter into dialogues with them and create virtual realities. This one-to-one person/machine relationship has blossomed into a global communication network, the...
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution. Zeros and Ones...
The Child and the Machine: Why Computers Put Children's Education at
Are computers effective learning tools for young children? Can computers help our children to learn to read and write, and think? This is the first book ever to address these...
I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Getting to the Core of Apple's
After 25 years of avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak breaks his silence and tells the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on the...
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, over twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible...
Programming as if People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software
Through a set of lively anecdotes and essays, Nathaniel Borenstein traces the divergence between the fields of software engineering and user-centered software design, and attempts to reconcile the needs of...
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for...
Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds
First book to link children's technology use to important new findings about stages of child development and brain maturation. Through concrete examples and guidelines, Jane Healy clearly illustrates how computers...
Insanely Great: The Life And Times of Macintosh the Computer That
"Welcome to Mac" - with those words, a new era was born. January 1994 marks the tenth anniversary of this personal-computer breakthrough. A household word now, the Mac phenomenon marked...
Windows XP Unwired
From the growing number of Wi-Fi hotspots to the escalating sales of laptops and other portable wireless-enabled devices, it's clear that wireless technology is here and poised to play an...
Microsoft First Generation: The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who
Microsoft Corporation has been the focus of sustained success and intense public interest for more than a decade. Who were the architects of the Empire that changed the world forever,...
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards
The SUPERMEN "After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to...
War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality
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Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication (F2F to those in the know)...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Traces the history of hackers, from clunky computer card punching machines to the inner secrets of what would become the internet. This book also includes profiles of Bill Gates, Steve...
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In "Turing's Cathedral," George Dyson focuses on...
Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing
For anyone interested in the issues arising from computer malfunctions and, more perniciously, from misuse, this new edition of "Computer Ethics" is right on the mark. Widely acclaimed for its...
The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal
Technologies have a life cycle, says Donald Norman, and companies and their products must change as they pass from youth to maturity. However, the computer industry thinks it is still...
Learn C on the Macintosh
Are you sick of pushing paper in a job that's taking you nowhere, except to thecopy machine? Did you enjoy BASIC as a kid, but feel left behind by theprogramming...
Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a human-computer symbiosis transformed the course of...
Bots: The Origin of New Species
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Bots is the story of cyberspace's first indigenous species. Strings of code, bots are a software version of a mechanical robot. Originally meant to do our bidding, when unleashed by...
The Essence of Compilers
The compiler tools covered within this text are Lex and YACC, whose uses are shown both through examples concerned with compiler construction and examples concerned with other syntax-directed tools, such...
How Computers Really Work: A Guide for the Insanely Curious
For the truly curious or merely confused, here is an easily understood, yet detailed explanation of microcomputers. Suitable for everyone from senior school students to adults, the text is fundamental....
Assembler Inside and Out
This is an instruction guide to assembly language programming for 80X86-based computers. The author provides information on learning how to construct, process, and run programs. Experienced ALP programmers may learn...
How to Do Everything Palm Pre
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Mind Over Math: Put Yourself on the Road to Success by Freeing
Based on a workshop that helped students and professionals overcome their fear of math, this book dispels numerous misconceptions.