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  • All and Nothing

    A Digital Apocalypse

    by Martin Burckhardt, Dirk Hofer ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series Book 5 - Untimely Meditations
    Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One.—All and NothingIn 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a universe the elements of which could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and presence ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • You Are Not a Gadget

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

    Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

    by Ali Almossawi ...
    Series series Bad Arguments
    “This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company’s ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book.”—Geoffrey James, INC.comFrom the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!Have you read (or ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

    The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 7 - Edge Question Series
    How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Overcomplicated

    Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Imaginary Magnitude

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude , an entertaining and intelligent mortal has the first word." —Paul Gray, TimeSatirizing the human mind at its most abstract, these wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-g ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction and Philosophy

    From Time Travel to Superintelligence

    Edited by Susan Schneider ...
    A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments.Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and ... Read more

    $84.00 USD

  • Thumbelina

    The Culture and Technology of Millennials

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Daniel W. Smith ...
    The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    **Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.**What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • In the Swarm

    Digital Prospects

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series Book 3 - Untimely Meditations
    A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.—from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What Algorithms Want

    Imagination in the Age of Computing

    by Ed Finn ...
    The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Marvelous Clouds

    Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

    by John Durham Peters ...
    "An ambitious re-writing—a re-synthesis, even—of concepts of media and culture . . . It is nothing less than an attempt at a history of Being." — Los Angeles Review of BooksWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the ... Read more

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