Presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. This book considers questions such as: What rules should govern virtual communities? Should the law step in to protect property rights when virtual items are destroyed or stolen?
In The Risk Perception of Artificial Intelligence, Hugo Neri examines how society has come to understand artificial intelligence by studying how cultural productions, intellectuals, and the media have shaped society's views, understandings, and fears of artificial intelligence.
How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World Order
What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political movement to prevent it, would politicians still view it as socialism? In a world where algorithms and robots take the jobs of immigrants and citizens alike, are border controls an effective response? If ......
This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twenty-first-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life?
What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe
Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, most have strayed from the scientific method. In The Phantom God, computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey, Ph.D., tackles this problem head-on, exploring religious feelings not as ......
This book aims to thoroughly examine noise's conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different "contextures" of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits the capacity of global-scale coordination and the design of robust, adaptable social systems, we ......
Looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. This book demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention.
A book about America's romance with computer communication that looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. It demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention.
In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
