Subject: Information society (Keywords)

Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy and time, a cognitive surplus. Shirky argues that this cognitive surplus, rather than being some strange new departure from normal behaviour, actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up to and t...

Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy and time, a cognitive surplus. Shirky argues that this cognitive surplus, rather than being some strange new departure from normal behaviour, actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up to and t...

We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks - operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastruct...

With a foreword by Tony Blair, this book offers a critical examination of the complex relationship between technological change, its effect upon society and social action, and the emerging strategies for inclusion in the information age.

How our new world - of texting, social networking, instant messaging and email - was built and how it has changed the way we relate to everything in our lives.

The smart machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Shadbolt and Hampson - Britain's pre-eminent authorities on AI - dispel terror, confusion and misconception by demonstrating that we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our o...

Fusing an historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of 'social' companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a...

Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the one that future generations will find hardest to grasp: that is, the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's...

With lucidity and wit, Scott Shapiro establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student ...

'Future Minds' illsutrated how to maximize the potential of digital technology and minimize its greatest downside, addressing the future of thinking and how we can ensure that we unleash the extraordinary potential of the human mind.