Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a…
Translation of: l'?Energie de fusion."A book by an expert in the field about the promise and challenges of building fusion energy reactors and how the largest international fusion research collaboration is on the verge of doing it"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book tells the story of how the internet and digital technologies disrupted the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Traces the cyberinsurance industry's history, challenges, and legal disputes to understand why insurance has not helped to strengthen cybersecurity and what governments could do to make it a more effective tool for cyber risk management"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A short manifesto on sludge, the goo that gums up the works of people working through various public and private systems, and why/how it should be reduced"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Garcia lays out tactics for researchers to fully engage in education policy by directly engaging with politicians -- at levels from local to national -- both before and after they are elected"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression, like gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, human exceptionalism and global borders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The tension between the drugs patients need & what is necessary to demonstrate safety & efficacy; a story of hope in justifiably desperate patients vs. the time it takes to prove drugs actually work"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginnin…
"The merging of the autobiographical with the philosophical or theoretical traced through feminist conceptual art, performance art, literature, philosophy, and activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.