Shaping Things

Bruce Sterling
Paperback - $30.95

The author offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. He says the future will bring user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable replacements for what's in briefcases and pockets today.

Who Gives a Gigabyte : A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed

Gary Stix
Paperback - $30.95

An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent— and future— technology

Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking book looks at the latest ...

Our Own Devices : How Technology Remakes Humanity

Edward Tenner
Paperback - $27.95

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 t ...

In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World

John Thackara
Hardcover - $59.95

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, "In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex ...

In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World

John Thackara
Paperback - $29.95

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, "In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex ...

Close to the Machine : Technophilia and Its Discontents

Ellen Ullmann
Paperback - $22.95

Here is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business out of a live-work loft in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would ...

Mediated Memories in the Digital Age

Jose Van Dijck
Paperback - $38.95

This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of rec ...

Democratizing Technology : Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology

Tyler J. Veak
Paperback - $57.95

Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our lives? More importantly, can we control and shape it, or does it control us? In short, can we make tech ...

What Things Do : Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design

Peter-Paul Verbeek
Paperback - $65.95

Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can their role in our lives be understood?

The Human Factor : Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

Kim Vicente
Paperback - $41.95

What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering "hidden epidemic" of medical error?
Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a ...