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How to be human in the digital economy
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developm…
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- 9780262349154
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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The technology fallacy :how people are the real key to digital transformation
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology. Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions--but it is …
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- 9780262352307
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- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Critical perspectives on open development :empirical interrogation of theory …
"Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363327
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Your computer is on fire
"Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360772
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New romantic cyborgs :romanticism, information technology, and the end of the…
An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343084
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- 1 online resource (320 pages)
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Monitoring movements in development aid :recursive partnerships and infrastru…
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodologi…
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- 9781461942962
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- 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) :illustrations.
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Networking peripheries :technological futures and the myth of digital univers…
In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly demonstrate that there are more ways than one to imagine what digital practice and global connection could look like. To explore these alternative developments, Cha…
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- 0262319527
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 258 pages) :illustrations
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The outsourcer :the story of India's IT revolution
Originally published as: The long revolution.A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026232833X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Invented Edens :techno-cities of the twentieth century
Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella t…
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- 9780262276733
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- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Cyberpolitics in international relations
An examination of the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory and the practice of international relations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262305178
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- 1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) :illustrations
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