Browse by Category
- Architecture
- Art
- Bibles
- Biography & Autobiography
- Body, Mind & Spirit
- Business & Economics
- Computers
- Cooking
- Crafts & Hobbies
- Drama
- Education
- Family & Relationships
- Fiction General
- Games & Activities
- Gardening
- Health & Fitness
- History
- House & Home
- Humor
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Law
- Literary Collections
- Literary Criticism
- Mathematics
- Medical
- Music
- Nature
- Performing Arts
- Pets
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Political Science
Computers
Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 25 visions
of possible human-robot futures—incredible scenarios from
Teddy Bots to Doc Bots to Politician Bots - grounded in real
technologies and possibilities, and inspired by our
imagination.
Hello, world.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause.
A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the
thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole
Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.
Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime.
Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime.
Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of
the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking
about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers,
for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking,
intelligence and what it means to be human.
A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and
future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing
potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David
Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story
about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey.
In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of
the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the
emails they stole may have changed the course of American
democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric is to miss the
bigger, more important story.
At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg
wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and
designers—some of them only high school students—in the
late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which
was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn,
engage, communicate, and play through connected computers.
“A prescient and important book. . . .
Fascinating.”—The New York Review of
Books
No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality.
No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality.
“This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley
techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy
romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times
Book Review (Editor's Choice)
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves.
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves.
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL
BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever imagined.
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever imagined.
Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind
the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how
its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in
which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as
a megaton bomb.
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need.
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need.
