The Blind Giant
Being Human in a Digital World
Written by Nick Harkaway
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
Nick Harkaway, author of Angelmaker, presents a rousing and energizing look at how we can meaningfully and constructively engage with technology—creating an essential handbook for anyone trying to be human in a digital age. Some say our devices will lead us to ruin: isolating us from our neighbors, warping communication, delivering an unregulated...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Nimble and entertaining . . . A fascinating historical review of our longtime obsession with machines.”
–David Takami,
Seattle TimesIn
Rapture for the Geeks, Richard Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our roles in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $11.99
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are...
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Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $11.99
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving—and take a...
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