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Technology and the New Economy
Lectures ... originally delivered ... at the University of Hong Kong in 2001-2002 in celebration of its 90th birthday"--Introduction.Essays on the effects of information technology on the economy.One of the most important forces driving economic performance in the United States and other countries during the 1990s was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a signifi…
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- 9780262267557
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- 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) :illustrations
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Technology as Experience
How to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256643
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- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
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Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information…
In Tracing Genres through Organizations, Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improve information design. He argues that the traditional user-centered approach to design does not take into consideration the unofficial genres that spring up as workers write notes, jot down ideas, a…
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- 9780262257015
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- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :illustrations.
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City of Bits : Space, Place, and the Infobahn
Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of…
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- 9780262279956
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Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Jus…
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- 9780262301657
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Innovation, dual use, and security :managing the risks of emerging biological…
Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a "dual-use dilemma" because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile purposes. The emerging field of synthetic genomics, for example, can produce custom DNA molecules for life-saving drugs but also makes possible the creation of deadly viral agent…
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- 9780262301640
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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The practice of light :a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326568
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Teaching machines
"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363747
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Designed for digital :how to architect your business for sustained success
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- 9780262354776
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The flip side of free :understanding the economics of the internet
"A trade book on the economics of the internet and the policies that have shaped our view of online activity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363585
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