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In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He argues that technology is actually a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.
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This Carnegie Council panel asks: How do sustainable innovations make it to market? Three very different inventors talk about their creative process, how their inventions have had a social impact, and what a more sustainable society might look like.
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Amid the euphoria about the power of the Internet and social media, Morozov sounds a note of caution. He reminds us that these tools can also entrench dictators, threaten dissidents, and make it harder—not easier—to promote democracy.
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Steven Levy
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For two years Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired, was given an opportunity to observe Google's operations, development, culture, and advertising model from within the infrastructure, with full managerial cooperation. What did he find?
Ecoarttech: Our Biological, Cultural, and Digital Environment
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Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir explain ecoarttech, which they cofounded in 2005 to explore convergent media, technology, and environments.
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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Journalist and critic (and avid video gamer) Tom Bissell takes a deeper look into video game culture. His new book, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter takes a serious look at a much-dismissed topic.
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Author: Rodney Brooks
Publisher: Vintage (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
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Author: Rodney A. Brooks
Publisher: A Bradford Book (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 213 pages
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Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher: The MIT Press (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 386 pages
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Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 352 pages
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Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher: The MIT Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 232 pages
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Author: Peter Galison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages
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Author: Peter Galison
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (1987)
Binding: Paperback, 337 pages
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 982 pages
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Publisher: Harvard University Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 216 pages

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