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Vintage, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Only Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil, could make one never pick up a paper clip again without being overcome with feelings of awe and reverence. In his new book the author examines a host of techno-trivia questions - how the fork got its tines.....
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University of Chicago Press, March 2012. Trade Paperback. This bracing history uses the earth-shaking development of the steam engine to show how the very idea of intellectual property was essential to the entire Industrial Revolution. Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its.....
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Free Press, January 2011. Trade Paperback. "More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology's irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies.....
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Yale University Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. The first comprehensive history of the bicycle--lavishly illustrated with images spanning two centuries During the nineteenth century, the bicycle evoked an exciting new world in which even a poor person could travel afar and at will. But was the "mechanical horse" truly destined.....
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), August 2026. Hardcover. How much technology have you taken for granted today? It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes.....
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MCD, May 2021. Hardcover. Jer Thorp's analysis of the word "data" in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with "data," we find not only its classic companions "information" and "digital," but also a variety of new.....
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Prentice Hall, December 1994. Trade Paperback. This volume focuses on design rules and techniques that are drawn from the rational, functionalist design aesthetic seen in modern graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture - and applies them to various graphical user interface problems experienced in commercial software development. It.....
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MIT Press, April 2026. Trade Paperback. How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong. Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things.....
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MIT Press, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A concise primer on machine learning--computer programs that learn from data and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars. No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required! Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product.....
PAMPHLET. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early 50's) details the history of the telephone, as well as the science and infrastructure behind the national and global telephone systems. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early.....
US Naval Institute Press, June 1978. Trade Paperback.
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MIT Press (MA), October 2008. Hardcover. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, February 2025. Trade Paperback. Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In.....
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Vintage, June 2025. Trade Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations.....
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Oxford University Press, USA, October 1992. Hardcover. From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will.....
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Penguin Press, May 2025. Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - A New York Times Bestseller - Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book.....
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2015. Trade Paperback. Television is the last mass medium to be disrupted by the Internet. Given the intricacies of the industry, it's also going to be the most resistant to change. Alan Wolk, an industry veteran and longtime analyst and observer, lays out how the.....
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Wiley, February 2012. Hardcover. The Internet didn't kill TV! It has become its best friend. Americans are watching more television than ever before, and we're engaging online at the same time we're tuning in. Social media has created a new and powerful "backchannel", fueling the renaissance of live broadcasts. Mobile.....
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MIT Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing--digitally controlled additive manufacturing--is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a......
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Little Brown and Company, November 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER J.P. MORGAN NEXTLIST SELECTION In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount "a profound exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of the epochal challenges and opportunities presented.....
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Random House Publishing Group, November 2024. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. "AI is not coming, it's here. If we answer the beautiful.....
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Basic Books, November 2013. Trade Paperback. The essential guide to human-centered design "Even more relevant today than it was when first published."--Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, August 2024. Hardcover. Imagine a technology capable of discovering new drugs in days instead of years, helping scientists map distant galaxies and decode the language of whales, and aiding the rest of us in mundane daily tasks, from drafting email responses to preparing dinner. Now.....
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Picador, May 2024. Trade Paperback. "Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our times that.....
