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Humanity's end: Why we should reject radical enhancement
"A Bradford book."""Arguments against radical enhancement have too often in the past been characterized by irrationalism and mysticism. Nicholas Agar presents the first cogent case for the rationality of opposing radical enhancement. Moving easily between science and philosophy, he argues for a species-relative conception of valuable experiences, according to which we have a strong reason to re…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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Inventing future cities
How we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan…
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- 9780262349895
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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Insatiable curiosity : Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) : illustrations
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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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Leading open innovation
In today's competitive globalised market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). This book describes the ways that OI expands the space for innovation, describing a range of OI practices, participants, and trends. The contributors report on a variety of OI initiatives, off…
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- 9780262312455
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The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277891
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) :illustrations
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Too smart :how digital capitalism is extracting data, controlling our lives, …
"The world is getting smarter. Things of all shapes and sizes-from the smart comb to the smart city and everything between-are now being digitally upgraded with the latest sensors, software, and connectivity. Even your toothbrush can now collect data about when, how long, and how well you brush. And, since it is Bluetooth enabled, it sends that brushing data to cloud servers so that your dentis…
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