"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--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…
"Essays that look at the challenges and risks in designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on innovative designs and solutions for algorithmic justice, learning, and equity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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…
"A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"--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.
"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.
"This is Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens for the 21st century. Miguel Sicart extends Huizinga's argument that play is essential to the generation of culture to the computational culture of today"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"On the global development of legislation, treaty negotiations, constitutional measures, and litigation resulting in legal recognition of Rights of Nature (RoN), including the cultural and political influences that determined how these legal rights were framed, the method of adoption and, importantly, the evolution of RoN enforcement through judicial decisions and growing cultural familiarity w…
"An explantion of a knowledge-based system for creating computational agents with human-like language ability"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.