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Against Technology

By: Jones, Steven E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Routledge: April 2006

Seller ID: 270403

ISBN: 0415978688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand against technology. Steven Jones here explains the history of the Luddites, British textile works who, from around 1811, proclaimed themselves followers of "Ned Ludd" and smashed machinery they saw as threatening their trade. Against Technology is not a history of the Luddites, but a history of an idea: how the activities of a group of British workers in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire came to stand for a global anti-technology philosophy, and how an anonymous collective movement came to be ...
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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

By: Siegel, Lee

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: January 2008

Seller ID: 270751

ISBN: 0385522657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the author hailed by the "New York Times Book Review "for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the "New York Times" "Magazine "as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee ...
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Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives

By: Nicols Fox

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Island Press: October 2002

Seller ID: 218573

ISBN: 1559638605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Against the Machine is timely, compelling, and important. Its intellectual sweep extends from the transcendental to the transistor, covering much unfamiliar ground and reviving a long-neglected tradition of dissent." -ERIC SCHLOSSER, AUTHOR OF FAST FOOD NATION "Against the Machine is luminous, lyrical, impassioned, profound. I had to put the book down every few paragraphs and breathe in relief." -CHELLIS GLENDINNING, ORION " Fox carefully and convincingly makes her case that there have always been reasonable, indeed often brilliant, people who were not at all sure that technology was...
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Appropriate Technology: Technology With a Human Face

By: Dunn, Peter

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Schocken Books: May 1979

Seller ID: 270766

ISBN: 0805206116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life

By: Marcus Wohlsen

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Current: April 2011

Seller ID: 254715

ISBN: 1617230022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules." The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech companies and academic researchers are just beginning to unlock the potential of piecing together life from scratch. Champions of synthetic biology believe that turning genetic code into Lego-like blocks to build never-before-seen organisms could solve the thorniest challenges in medicine, energy, and environmental protec...
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Birth & Death & Cybernation (Social Change Series)

By: Ryan, Paul

Price: $61.50

Publisher: Routledge: January 1973

Seller ID: 270724

ISBN: 0677043201

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Computers, Ethics, and Society

By: M. David Ermann, Mary B. Williams, Michele S. Shauf

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: March 1997

Seller ID: 161577

ISBN: 019510756X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Computers can have both a positive and negative impact on our lives. As they become increasingly important, these machines have the potential to deprive us of our privacy and even the jobs we need to support ourselves. On the other hand, they can enhance the quality of human life by producing unimagined freedom from drudgery and want. Ideal for students in sociology, philosophy, and computer science courses, Computers, Ethics, and Society serves as a reminder that although technology has the potential to improve or undermine our quality of life, it is society which has the power to ultimately ...
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Critical Theory of Technology

By: Andrew Feenberg

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: October 1991

Seller ID: 69894

ISBN: 0195068556

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Modern technology is more than a neutral tool: it is the framework of our civilization and shapes our way of life. Social critics claim that we must choose between this way of life and human values. Critical Theory of Technology challenges that pessimistic cliche. This pathbreaking book argues that the roots of the degradation of labor, education, and the environment lie not in technology per se but in the cultural values embodied in its design. Rejecting such popular solutions as economic simplicity or spiritual renewal, Feenberg presents a compelling argument for broader democratic participa...
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Crossing the Postmodern Divide

By: Albert Borgmann

Price: $6.98

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: June 1993

Seller ID: 69886

ISBN: 0226066274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated vision of what this new era, at its best, has in store. " This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."--Joseph Coates, "The Chicago Tribune" "R...
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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

By: N/A

Price: $12.98

Publisher: A Bradford Book: April 2001

Seller ID: 243512

ISBN: 0262621517

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. Wh...
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Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology

By: Jeri Fink

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Prometheus Books: December 1999

Seller ID: 161579

ISBN: 1573927430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Born from today's evolutionary psychology and its studies of developing human behavior and emotions is the radical new concept from psychotherapist Jeri Fink that virtual reality has been with us since humans first walked the earth and has only been heightened by today's technology. Psychologically, humans are "wired" to crave experiences beyond our daily existence. From the cave dweller's fireside stories of slaying massive beasts and the Elizabethan experience of Shakespeare's tragedies to today's blockbuster disaster movies and, most importantly, interactive computer communication, we have ...
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Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present

By: Krause, Professor Elliott A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 270748

ISBN: 0300067585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In this wide-ranging analysis, Elliott Krause considers the autonomy and leverage of modern professional groups -- medicine, law, university teaching, and engineering -- in the United States and four European countries over the past three decades. Finding that each group has experienced a decline in its power relative to that of state and capitalist institutions, Krause considers the implications for professionals and those they serve.
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Digitized: The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World

By: Peter J. Bentley

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 81456

ISBN: 019969379X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life, a science so powerful that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. It is the science behind computers, the machines which drive the supply and creation of power, food, medicine, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods our stores. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks, and GPS technologies. Written in friendly and approachable language, Digitized provides a window onto the mysterious field fro...
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Exodus To The Virtual World

By: Edward Castronova

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Griffin: November 2008

Seller ID: 226094

ISBN: 0230607853

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like "World of Warcraft "and "Second Life"), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around "fun." Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? "Exodus to the Virtual World...
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

By: Jerry Mander

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1978

Seller ID: 213825

ISBN: 0688082742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are...
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

By: Jerry Mander

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1978

Seller ID: 245869

ISBN: 0688082742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

By: Lienhard, John H.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 270429

ISBN: 0195341201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that whe...
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How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations)

By: Ian Bogost

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: August 2011

Seller ID: 203341

ISBN: 081667647X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the "New York Times" and the "New Yorker," and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They are increasingly used for purposes other than entertainment, yet debates about videogames still fork along one of two paths: accusations of debasement through violence and isolation or defensive paeans to their potential as serious cultural works. In "How to Do Things with Videogames," Ian Bo...
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Human Robots and Holy Mechanics: Reclaiming Our Souls in a Machine World

By: Kyle, David T.

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Swan Raven & Co: February 1993

Seller ID: 270746

ISBN: 0963231006

Condition: Used - Like New

Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

By: Harvey, Penelope

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Routledge: August 1996

Seller ID: 270731

ISBN: 041513045X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late 20th century. Through analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in seville in 1992, the themes of culture, nation...
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In the Absence of the Sacred : The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations

By: JERRY MANDER

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Univ California State Pr at: September 1992

Seller ID: 226523

ISBN: 0871565099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process.Now, with In the Absence of the Sacred, Mander goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole. In this provocative work, he challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world's loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world,...
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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

By: Drahos, Peter

Price: $17.98

Publisher: The New Press: May 2003

Seller ID: 270433

ISBN: 1565848047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

HOW MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS ARE PATENTING LIFE ITSELF Uncovering the story of how a small coterie of multinational corporations came to write the charter for a new global information order, Information Feudalism demonstrates why the world of intellectual property rights, patent regimes, and anti-trust laws is an urgent concern for ordinary citizens. As an ever wider range of everyday activities--from swinging in a swing to traditional farming techniques--are identified and commodified as intellectual property, struggles over the control of information are destined to become crucial battlegr...
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Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors, 1930-67 (Volume 1) (Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers & Inventors)

By: Franklin Jones

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.: December 1929

Seller ID: 162024

ISBN: 0831110295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. The descriptions and illustratios are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted readi...
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Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology

By: James R. Chiles

Price: $9.98

Publisher: HarperBusiness: August 2001

Seller ID: 240651

ISBN: 0066620813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

On July 25, 2000, a small piece of debris on the runway at a Paris airport caused a tire to blow out on an Air France Concorde during its take off. A heavy slab of rubber that spun off from a tire created a shock wave in a wing tank, which burst open and sent fuel streaming into an engine intake. As flames trailed two hundred feet behind, the aircraft rolled out of control. The crash killed all 109 people on board and 4 more on the ground.The tragedy of that departing Concorde is just one of many such chain-reaction catastrophes that have occurred as the world has grown more technologically co...
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Language of New Media

By: MANOVICH, LEV

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Mit Pr: April 2002

Seller ID: 269732

ISBN: 0262632551

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database.Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develo...
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

By: Ellen Ullman

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Picador: August 2018

Seller ID: 268123

ISBN: 1250181690

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell Studies in Comparative History)

By: Adas, Michael

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: August 1990

Seller ID: 270759

ISBN: 0801497604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority shaped their interactions with people overseas. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, he analyzes the Europeans' responses to the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, India, and China cultures that they judged to represent lower levels of material mastery and social ...
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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on the Brain

By: Susan Greenfield

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Random House: January 2015

Seller ID: 204972

ISBN: 0812993829

Binding: Hardcover

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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on the Brain

By: Susan Greenfield

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: January 2015

Seller ID: 263240

ISBN: 0812993829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters

By: William M. Evan, Mark Manion

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR: April 2002

Seller ID: 70241

ISBN: 0130656461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Technological disasters effect every area of a corporation's infrastructure, not to mention their reputation, bottom line, and possible costly liability lawsuits. This book explores various preventive strategies for technology disasters -- organizational, professional, political and legal -- that can help organizations reduce the incidence of technological disasters and mitigate their vast human costs. The authors explore a crisis management program, which is an essential preventive strategy. They recommend more citizen participation in technology policy decisions to minimize the risks of tech...
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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

By: Edward Tenner

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage: June 2004

Seller ID: 228351

ISBN: 0375707077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner " the philosopher of everyday technology." Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce back and change us. The reclining chair, originally designed for brief, healthful relaxation, has become the very symbol of obesity. The helmet, invented for military purposes, has made possible new sports like mountain biking and rollerblading. The typewriter, created to make business run more smoo...
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Population, Technology, and Lifestyle: The Transition To Sustainability

By: N/A

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Island Press: August 1992

Seller ID: 70703

ISBN: 1559631996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Population, Technology, and Lifestyle" brings together leading experts to suggest specific actions that governments and individuals can take to lead the way to a sustainable society.
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Rebels Against the Future : The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution : Lessons for the Computer Age

By: KIRKPATRICK SALE

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Perseus Books Group: May 1996

Seller ID: 233682

ISBN: 0201407183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of "WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, " and "The New Yorker, ""Rebels Against the Future" takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a new-Luddite spirit...
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Rebels Against the Future : The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution : Lessons for the Computer Age

By: KIRKPATRICK SALE

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Perseus Books Group: May 1996

Seller ID: 258066

ISBN: 0201407183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change

By: Rosalind Williams

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The MIT Press: August 2002

Seller ID: 228346

ISBN: 0262232235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 ...
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Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance

By: Klaus Benesch

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 2002

Seller ID: 262930

ISBN: 1558493239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Literary critics have long regarded the rejection of technology as a distinguishing feature of American Romanticism. Yet as Klaus Benesch shows in this insightful study, the attitude of antebellum writers toward the advent of the machine age was far more complicated than often supposed. Although fraught with tension, the relationship between professional authorship and evolving technology reflected a pattern of adjustment rather than opposition, as writers sought to redefine their place within a culture that increasingly valued the engineer and the scientist.According to Benesch, major writ...
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Science, Technology, and Policy Decisions

By: Anne Hiskes, Richard Hiskes

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc): September 1986

Seller ID: 69896

ISBN: 0865316325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Social Issues in Technology: A Format for Investigation

By: Paul A. Alcorn

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div: June 1996

Seller ID: 69912

ISBN: 0134598768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Finely-focused on the technology-society connection, this unique primer outlines the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our lives -- past, present, and future. It is designed to give investigators the necessary intellectual tools to begin their own research into the field.The nature of technology; the process of developing technology; the critical link between creativity and innovation; economics and cultural impetus; the cause and effect of technology and society; modeling, simulations, and gaming; the universal laws of systems behavior; diversity, ra...
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