1,709円 Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Facebook's Libra, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it’s too important to ignore. In this revelatory book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wi...

777円 As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves? The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. F...

2,177円 Can Facebook be trusted with your data? Years ahead of their time, Diaspora tried to do better. This is their David-versus-Goliath effort to build a revolutionary social network that would give us back control of our privacy. In June of 2010, four nerdy NYU undergrads moved to Silicon Valley to s...

49,470円 This two-volume encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking, a much-needed resource at a time when new social networks or "communities" seem to spring up on the internet every day. Social networks, or groupings of individuals tied ...

5,405円 How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has brought about in our new information age. Net...

933円 A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave “A must-read for this moment in time.”ーSteven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics • One of the best books of the yearーNature Mary Aiken, the world’s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology, offers ...

6,500円 This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contribu...

2,652円 In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology.

5,573円 Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical...

10,280円 This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public inv...

1,800円 Ob Handy, Waschmaschine oder Auto: Ein Leben ohne Technik können wir uns gar nicht mehr vorstellen. Sie hilft, sie macht Spaß - und treibt uns manchmal zur Weißglut... Der ZEIT-Redakteur Gero von Randow liefert ein geistreiches Porträt unseres Lebens im Takt der Technik: »Greifen Sie sich ein bel...

2,136円 "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" ーDavid Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of Books We used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. W...