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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful...


Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier

The DazzlingNew Masterwork from the Prophet of Silicon Valley

Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time....


The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

by Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a...


The Upcycle

by Michael Braungart, William McDonough & President Bill Clinton

From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what’s next: The Upcycle

The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time....


The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World

by Marina Gorbis

A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world.

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get...


Utopian Frontiers: A Story of Hope

by Drew Tapley

What if there was a secret city at work on finding answers to the survival of humanity? Technologies beyond your imagination. A city expanding, recruiting and evolving. There is no government, no money, no bosses,...


Visual Usability: Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications

by Tania Schlatter & Deborah Levinson

Imagine how much easier creating web and mobile applications would be if you had a practical and concise, hands-on guide to visual design. Visual Usability gets into the nitty-gritty of applying visual design...


Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff

"If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism."

 

This is the moment we've been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas...


Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

by Kel Smith

The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term...


China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

by Juan Pablo Cardenal, Heriberto Araujo & Catherine Mansfield

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut...


Analyzing the Social Web

by Jennifer Golbeck

Analyzing the Social Web provides a framework for the analysis of public data currently available and being generated by social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Access and...


Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World

by David D. Burstein

A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism

They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the...


The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

by Al Gore

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global...


Human-Computer Interactions in Transport

by Christophe Kolski

The human-computer interactions are more and more present in our everyday life, and lead to many conceptual and methodological problems for the designers and evaluators of interactive systems. This book is about...


Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating

by Dan Slater

“If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what...


Brainstorming and Beyond: A User-Centered Design Method

by Chauncey Wilson

Brainstorming and Beyond describes the techniques for generating ideas verbally, in writing, or through sketches. The first chapter focuses on brainstorming, the foundation method for ideation, which is a complex...


The Anti-Education Era

by James Paul Gee

One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today’s digital and social media

 

Today’s schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rather...


Designing the Search Experience: The Information Architecture of Discovery

by Tony Russell-Rose & Tyler Tate

Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand...


Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective

by I. Scott MacKenzie

Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction...


Vehicle Dynamics Estimation using Kalman Filtering: Experimental Validation

by Moustapha Doumiati, Ali Charara & Alessandro Victorino

Vehicle dynamics and stability have been of considerable interest for a number of years. The obvious dilemma is that people naturally desire to drive faster and faster yet expect their vehicles to be “infinitely”...