History & Culture
epub |eng | | Author:Leone Montagnini

This however did not look reasonable to me, because it is exactly under these circumstances of the cumulative use of processes which accomplish very little each time that the standard ...
( Category: Physics April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:T.R. Reid

As fabrication plants turn out millions of chips that contain tens or hundreds of millions of transistors each, Moore—retired from active service at Intel, but still on the board—has spent ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:David Birch [Birch, David]

Neither the banks nor the merchants nor the regulators know what is coming next, and the experiences of regulators who have meddled with the price of payments (in Europe, Australia ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald Deibert

Germany Germany is a country of high Internet penetration, at approximately 76 percent. Occasionally, takedown requests and access restrictions are imposed on ISPs, usually with the justification of protecting minors ...
( Category: History & Culture April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-22 | Author:Richard L. Brandt

Chapter 7 The China Syndrome Google as Big Brother It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. —Aristotle In February 2006, Larry Brilliant went to Google headquarters to talk ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 10,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-30 | Author:Martin Campbell-Kelly

FROM SAGE TO THE INTERNET SAGE, an early 1960s air-defense system, was located in some thirty “direction centers” strategically placed around the country to provide complete radar coverage for the ...
( Category: History & Culture April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Eden Medina [Medina, Eden]

6 Cybersyn Goes Public Does it take more courage to be a cybernetician than to be a gunman? —Stafford Beer, April 1973 The Cybersyn team began 1973 on a high ...
( Category: Computer Science April 10,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Eliot Reznor

Bitcoin Paper Broken Down Step-by-step: Proof of Work Explained The problem we had so far is we have a way to identify the current and previous owners of a coin ...
( Category: Computer Science April 10,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Michael A Banks

128 Chapter 13 AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success The main difference in the two situations was that Apple wasn’t approaching its demise as Commodore was. Apple was healthy and ...
( Category: Web Development & Design April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Donald M. Hall

7 A METEOR Then came Quarterback Sports Federation, Inc., a stock financed by a local brokerage firm. The name of the new company sounded like a group of quarterbacks collaborating ...
( Category: Americas April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Keen

CHAPTER SIX THE ONE PERCENT ECONOMY An Abundance of Stupidity My own epiphany about the Internet’s disastrous impact on culture is well documented. In the fall of 2005, I was ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Agar

• CHAPTER 15 • CRISIS LOOMS Non-Euclidean geometries were the first suggestion that mathematics was not merely the steady accumulation of true theorems, and their discovery directed attention towards foundations. ...
( Category: History & Culture April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Anupam Chander

6 FREEING TRADE IN CYBERSPACE At the core of every cybertrade controversy described in this book is a provider in one jurisdiction supplying services to consumers in another. In each ...
( Category: Legal Theory & Systems April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Robert X. Cringely [Cringely, Robert X.]

10 - The Prophet The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley sits alone on many weekday mornings, drinking coffee at II Fornaio, an Italian restaurant on Cowper Street in Palo ...
( Category: Biography & History April 6,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Saifedean Ammous

Murray Rothbard concurs with Mises:9 A world of constant money supply would be one similar to that of much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, marked by the successful flowering ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure April 4,2018 )