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Beyond Technology's Promise: An Examination of Children's Educational
As personal computers have become more available, there has been a great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer use, both at school and in the home. Beyond...
How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can
Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. Leading AI entrepreneur Nigel Toon explains why it's so exciting, and how it can be controlled. We are used...
The Human Computer
Computers could be like humans in every respect. They could have the intelligence to understand Shakespeare's plays, Napoleon's military strategy, Einstein's theories of relativity. They could have the creativity to...
Cyberspace: First Steps
Cyberspace has been defined as "an infinite artificial world where humans navigate in information-based space" and as "the ultimate computer-human interface." However one defines it, this "virtual reality" is clearly...
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...
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...
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...
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.In The Second Self,...
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...
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...
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden
From 2001 to 2017 Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple. In Creative Selection he gives his personal account of what it was like to work at...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists The world is awash in...