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Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection by Ethan Zuckerman Publisher Comments We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain Publisher Comments This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future by John Brockman Publisher Comments Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockmans latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In Too Much Magic, which builds on Kunstler's critically acclaimed New York Times best seller, The Long Emergency, Kunstler shows us that in a postfinancial-crisis world, his shocking vision of our post-oil future is more relevant than ever. He... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson Publisher Comments It's undeniable technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--And Locked Us in by Brian Chen Publisher Comments Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Geektionary: From Anime to Zettabyte, an A to Z Guide to All Things Geek: More Than 1,000 Words to Understand Goobs, Gamers, Orkdor by Gregory Bergman Synopsis ""The last WoW module was clunky and a bit slow on my rig but it had a great toolset for building adventures for my avatar. Now I'm at sixtieth level! Awesome!"" Whether it's about science fiction, Star Trek, sports, comics, or computers, geekspeak is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Program Or Be Programmed (11 Edition) by Douglas Rushkoff Synopsis The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: Its here; its everywhere. The real question is, do we direct... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence by James Bailey Publisher Comments Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bricklin on Technology by Daniel Bricklin Publisher Comments "As co-creator of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin literally created the PC industry. To a student of software, VisiCalc is the embodiment of so many novel and important ideas in software, lessons which are still relevant today."... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleague by Alex Soojung Kim Pang PW Review "In this practical guide to better, more 'contemplative computing,' Pang, a historian of technology, teaches readers a valuable set of skills to better enable them to deal with an increasing reliance on ever-more intrusive and distracting forms of mobile... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet Murray Publisher Comments Acclaimed by practitioners and theorists alike, this classic statement of the aesthetics of digital media shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Dennis Shasha Publisher Comments Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance--informations technology has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cultures@silicon Valley by J A English Lueck Publisher Comments English-Luecks fascinating new book, Cultures@Silicon Valley, casts a laserlike anthropological eye on the mores and mannerisms of her homies. . . . English-Lueck and colleagues left the groves of academe and spent yearsreal quality time... (read more) List Price $6.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy Publisher Comments Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner! A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (P.S.) by Marilyn Johnson Publisher Comments Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians—they can help! Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield Publisher Comments From the RFID tags now embedded in everything from soda cans to the family pet, to smart buildings that subtly adapt to the changing flow of visitors, to gestural interfaces like the ones seen in Minority Report, computing no longer looks much like it... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tao of Computing by Henry M Walker Publisher Comments The Tao of Computing provides readers with the knowledge, concepts, and skills necessary for computer fluency as defined in the National Research Council?s report, Being Fluent with Information Technology. Motivated by a belief that students learn... (read more) List Price $76.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything by Michael Saylor Publisher Comments In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence—the fifth wave of computer technology... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by V Mayer Schonberger Publisher Comments Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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