Forthcoming, second edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forthcoming, second edition write by Jalal Toufic. This book was released on 2014-09-05. Forthcoming, second edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. This second edition of a collection of his essays whirls around the appearance of the unworldly in art, culture, history, and the present.
Technology and Society
Technology and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technology and Society write by Deborah G. Johnson. This book was released on 2008-10-17. Technology and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.
The Old... The New... The Future! - Second Edition
The Old... The New... The Future! - Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Old... The New... The Future! - Second Edition write by Nader Bolour. This book was released on 2015-04-05. The Old... The New... The Future! - Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This catalog showcases a glimpse at some of the diverse eclectic art forms we have for the floor. We present to you some old, some new and some future rugs. - Nader Bolour, owner of Doris Leslie Blau Inc.
Lucene in Action
Lucene in Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucene in Action write by Otis Gospodnetic. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Lucene in Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short ofamazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine,developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently.A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" featureinto an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powerssearch in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn,Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New ScientistMagazine, and many others. Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performancesearch features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverseopen-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving,with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and ahuge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3. And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on bestpractices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide todeveloping with Lucene. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
The Jobless Future
The Jobless Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jobless Future write by Stanley Aronowitz. This book was released on 1994. The Jobless Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labor force. As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and our well-being in a science- and technology-based economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the workday to fewer hours without reducing pay.
