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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Robots are poised to transform today's society as completely as the Internet did twenty years ago. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff argues that we must decide to design ourselves into our future, or risk being excluded from it altogether.
In the past decade, Google introduced us to driverless cars; Apple debuted Siri, a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets; and an Internet of Things connected the smaller...
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Language
English
Description
"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s isas alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut....
Author
Publisher
Meridian
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s and early 70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism. While the New Left achieved limited political success, it brought about vast cultural changes that remain with us to this day. The reason is that while its representatives faced some political opposition, they faced little-to-no fundamental...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation,...
12) Connections 2
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins and effects of those inventions that shape the modern world in which we live.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"The big spin: The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection."--Container.
"Bright ideas: A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors, clock springs, and the Hubbell telescope."--Container.
"Making waves: Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together."--Container.
"Routes:...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"HIgh times: Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo Impressionist painters."--Container.
"Deja vu: History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans misfire."--Container.
"New harmony: Microscopic bugs inspired the novel'Frankenstein" which aided the birth of Socialism."--Container.
"Hot pickle:...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Revolutions: Discover how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the moon in a wild ride."--Container.
"Sentimental journeys: What has Freud got to do with maps? Or prison reform with blue dye? Or the inside of a star with the Himalayas? India reveals the answers."--Container.
"Getting it together: Start by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the root of many inventions."--Container.
"Whodunit?: Who...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"One word: One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology."--Container.
"Sign here: Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics, and Victorian seances."--Container.
"Better than the real thing: How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about Creation."--Container.
"Flexible response: Robin Hood...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Something for nothing: Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs."--Container.
"Echoes of the past: On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination."--Container.
"Photo finish: The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography...
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