mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-20 | Author:Robert Bryce

India Is Not Going “Beyond Coal” In July 2012, blackouts hit northern India, leaving more than 600 million people—about twice the population of the United States—without electricity. Trains were stranded, ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Nick Bilton [Bilton, Nick]

For More Details, Click Here … What happens when we’re online that keeps the brain so busy? The online experience isn’t simple or controlled; it’s like the Wild West. The ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Patrick Tucker

The End of Teaching It’s January 2012, the setting is the Ethiopian village of Wenchi, which sits on the rim of a volcanic crater lake some eleven thousand feet above ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-22 | Author:Joshua Cooper Ramo [RAMO, JOSHUA COOPER]

* * * In the old days, many problems in international affairs seemed as if they could be understood from the outside in. If you knew, say, how many tanks ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:McLuhan, Marshall [McLuhan, Marshall]

TINY CELLS “SEEN” BY NEW TECHNIQUE MICROPHORETIC METHOD SPOTS MILLION-BILLIONTH OF GRAM, LONDON DESIGNER SAYS Samples of substances weighing less than a million-billionth of a gram can be analysed by ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Clive Thompson

Ambient Awareness_ Who cares what you ate for breakfast? That question has become a cliché of Internet criticism, the go-to response to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lori Andrews

Even if we specifically designate our social network pages as private, social network sites do a particularly bad job of protecting privacy. In 2011, Joanne Kuzma of the University of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Joel Brenner

WIKILEAKS’S STATEMENT of purpose is high-minded. In its view, “principled leaking” changes history for the better, and “transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies.” ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-09 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Jaron Lanier [Lanier, Jaron]

PART SIX Democracy CHAPTER 16 Complaint Is Not Enough Governments Are Learning the Tricks of Siren Servers A revolutionary narrative is common in digital politics. Broadly speaking, that narrative counterpoises ...

epub |eng, eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Christopher Steiner

TO BUILD CUNNING WITH CODE Sandholm is an expert in game theory, the field of math concerning complex problems that include unknown variables and multiple parties with differing interests. Game ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff

* * * * Hopefully, my former New School media studies student Jake Kalos will write a book on this, the subject of his excellent unpublished paper. VI. IDENTITY Be ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:MacKinnon, Rebecca [MacKinnon, Rebecca]

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Clay A. Johnson

Chapter 7. Data Literacy “To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also ...