Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone...

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--

A groundbreaking book on our culture and the digital world by one of the legendary visionaries of the computer age. In the 1980s, Jaron Lanier was among the first to recognize the potential of the Internet as a transformative venue for creative expression, education, and communication. Now, as he considers an online culture filled with disposable film clips, blogs, and puerile discourse, he describes how the web has failed to live up to its early...

Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology. As the 21st century unfolds,...

"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"--

"Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch -- and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life -- and the world -- forever. Over two decades later, all across the planet, 'flash' technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal....

The author, a technology guru at the forefront of Internet developments, provides a layperson's explanation of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior and brain development. He shares recommendations for short and long-term responses.

If you give in to temptation and give a bored little mouse your iPhone, even for ten minutes, he's probably going to beam to some faraway place beyond time, space, and the sound of your pleading voice. And if he's that far gone, he won't have any idea what's going on around him, and he might end up missing out on all the real fun. From the New York Times-bestselling author of Goodnight iPad comes a delightful new commentary on the perils of our tech-obsessed...

"El protagonista, cuyo nombre no conocemos, pasea por la montaña cuando es alcanzado por un rayo. Conmocionado, regresa a su casa y descubre que su telefono movil, su televisor y su conexion a Internet no funcionan. Al principio achaca esta averia a la tormenta electrica, pero poco a poco se da cuenta de que ha adquirido el extrano don de desactivar todas las redes de telecomunicaciones a las que se aproxima. Tras reflexionar sobre la esclavitud...