New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/technology/
- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-01 18:49
- last episode published
- 2024-12-26 09:00
- publication frequency
- 5.82 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner
- Marshall Poe
- Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 928
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-26 | This episode is based upon three readings: Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence aka The Turing Test paper. Turing starts his paper by asking “can machines think?” before deciding that’s a meaningless question. Instead, he invents somethi... |
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| 2024-12-23 | As part of our informal series on artificial intelligence, Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Matt Beane, Assistant Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about his book The Skill Code: How to ... |
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| 2024-12-21 | In Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Lindsay Weinberg evaluates how this latest era of tech solutions and systems in our schools impacts students' abilities to access opportunities and exe... |
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| 2024-12-21 | In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources--our data--exploiting our labor and connections, and repackagi... |
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| 2024-12-14 | The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry. Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names... |
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| 2024-12-10 | Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middle-class families by s... |
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| 2024-12-07 | In this episode of High Theory, Marcello Vitali-Rosati tells us about bugs! A bug can be a small insect, an illness, a spy device, or a digital malfunction. The computer bug, the ghost in the machine, derives from an older engineering use of bug as mec... |
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| 2024-12-01 | The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley, 2024) describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years “on the ground” trying to estab... |
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| 2024-11-22 | All We All Cyborgs Now? (Basilian Media, 2024) is a series of 32 short essay-length reflections on "Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine." Now is an excellent time to be thinking about our relationship with technologies, digital and non-digital ali... |
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| 2024-11-22 | On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic measurement. It aimed to address a surprising questio... |
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