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  • If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line. The true…

    Consumption Economics: The New Rules of Tech

    By J. B. Wood, Thomas Lah, Todd Hewlin rating of short cover   ( 26 customer ratings) Point B, Inc., October 2011 ISBN: 9780984213054 Technology, Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • “If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.”   This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media…

    Present Shock - When Everything Happens Now

    By Douglas Rushkoff rating of short cover   ( 90 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, March 2013 ISBN: 9781101608241 Technology, Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that…

    The Singularity Is Near - When Humans Transcend Biology

    By Ray Kurzweil rating of short cover   ( 3068 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2005 ISBN: 9781101218884 Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science Language:  English
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  • Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives Human beings are information omnivores: we are…

    Everything Is Miscellaneous - The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    By David Weinberger rating of short cover   ( 1160 customer ratings) Henry Holt and Co., May 2007 ISBN: 9781429927956 Marketing & Sales, Consumer Behaviour Language:  English
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  • The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold…

    The Information Diet - A Case for Conscious Consumption

    By Clay A. Johnson rating of short cover   ( 715 customer ratings) O'Reilly Media, December 2011 ISBN: 9781449321567 Technology, Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • "More thriller than primer, this is the best technology book I have ever read." -Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital In this provocative book, one of today's most respected thinkers turns the…

    What Technology Wants

    By Kevin Kelly rating of short cover   ( 1116 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, October 2010 ISBN: 9781101444467 Technology, Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team. Is digital the death knell for print? Or will it reinvigorate the written word? What will happen to…

    Burning the Page - The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

    By Jason Merkoski Sourcebooks, April 2013 ISBN: 9781402288821 History, Modern Language:  English
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  • How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses - and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us.In The End of Big, social…

    The End of Big - How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

    By Nicco Mele rating of short cover   ( 23 customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, April 2013 ISBN: 9781250021861 Management & Leadership, Planning & Forecasting Language:  English
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  • Humans have always sought to change their environment--building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are…

    The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

    By Samuel C. Florman rating of short cover   ( 92 customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, February 1996 ISBN: 9781466842366 Technology, Engineering Language:  English
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  • Will the world’s next war be fought in cyberspace? 

"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl. 
So much of the world’s…

    Zero Day: The Threat In Cyberspace

    The Washington Post By Rober O'Harrow, The Washington Post rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) Diversion Books, January 2013 ISBN: 9781938120763 Science & Nature, Technology Language:  English
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