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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “neil mcbride”
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  • Digital Transformation and the Future of Privacy

    by Neil McBride ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    The rise of digital commerce, smartphones and social media and now the tsunami of artificial intelligence have led to the digital transformation of organisations and everyday life, creating anxiety about privacy. Privacy becomes a matter of public concern, as organisational systems are compromised, data misappropriated and our personal choices commoditised. We are left with the vain hope privacy ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Solar System

    Edited by David A. Rothery, Neil McBride, Iain Gilmour ...
    Ongoing advances in Solar System exploration continue to reveal its splendour and diversity in remarkable detail. This undergraduate-level textbook presents fascinating descriptions and colour images of the bodies in the Solar System, the processes that occur upon and within them, and their origins and evolution. It highlights important concepts and techniques in boxed summaries, while questions ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Quantified Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Everyday Automation

    Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton, Minna Ruckenstein ...
    This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated ... Read more

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  • The Futures We Make

    How our hobbies help make us whole and heal the planet

    by Paul Wildman ...
    https://www.facebook.com/TheFuturesWeMake - Hobbies—now that sounds like a great idea. We all have them in various guises. Most of them are hands-on and can be done in our spare time. So can we harness our hobbies to help the world? To help save our planet? Not only is this eBook a call to celebrate and recognise the importance hands-on craftwork plays in humanity, i.e. craft as play (adults) and ... Read more

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  • The Internet of Things

    by Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'.In this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Digital Turn

    How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

    by Wim Westera ...
    Awarded with the US National Indie Excellence Award 2014 in Social Media. This book is about digital media. Even more, the book is about us. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our perceptions of the world, change our behaviors and eventually transform our very existence. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, being online is the standard. We spend many ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Meaningful Stuff

    Design That Lasts

    by Jonathan Chapman ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more.Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Computer Aided Policy Making

    by Ray Wyatt ...
    This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner, business strategist, or manager in the field of education, health or welfare, Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software, peripheral software, innovative software, ... Read more

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  • AI Morality

    Edited by David Edmonds ...
    A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for. There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Effective Scientist

    A Handy Guide to a Successful Academic Career

    by Corey J. A. Bradshaw ...
    What is an effective scientist? One who is successful by quantifiable standards, with many publications, citations, and students supervised? Yes, but there is much more. Truly effective scientists need to have influence beyond academia, usefully applying and marketing their research to non-scientists. This book therefore takes an all-encompassing approach to improving the scientist's career. It ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Creativity in Art, Design and Technology

    by Susan Liggett, Rae Earnshaw, Jill Townsley ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This is an open access book.Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions.Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential ... Read more

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