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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first...
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An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself.
We are all connected now. But connected to what, exactly? In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum takes readers on a fascinating journey to find out.
When former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska famously described the Internet as "a series of tubes," he seemed hopelessly, foolishly trapped in an old way of knowing the world. But he...
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Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We've become a tribe of tech addicts--and it's not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction....
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"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as . . . doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"
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"Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystallizes the current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of...
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"None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every...
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Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with...
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L'informatique durable est l'effort de réduction de la consommation d'énergie des ordinateurs par l'efficacité. Elle suit l'idéal de développement durable : le progrès sans compromettre le futur. Même si les ordinateurs n'utilisent que 3% de l'énergie aux Etats-Unis, les solutions informatiques permettent d'avoir une plus grande influence sur l'informatique durable.
Les termes informatique durable, informatique verte, numérique responsable...
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This book presents a new concept: infobody.
It contains four chapters:
Chapter 1: Infobody Overview
This chapter talks about the new concept-infobody and all related concepts and definitions. It also gives a summary for each following chapter and potential applications and research topics.
Chapter 2: Infobody Charting
This chapter talks about infobody charting with detailed steps and illustrations. Infobody charting...
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Getting started with Spring Framework is a hands-on guide to begin developing applications using Spring Framework. This book is meant for Java developers with little or no knowledge of Spring Framework. All the examples shown in this book use Spring 3.2. Chapter 1 - Spring Framework basics. Chapter 2 - Configuring beans. Chapter 3 - Dependency injection. Chapter 4 - Customizing beans and bean definitions. Chapter 5 - Annotation-driven development...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation.
#2 The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the...
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If you are a technology manager, congratulations, you've landed one of the most difficult and demanding jobs in modern history. The challenges in sustaining critical business infrastructure while helping business leaders realize their strategic visions are often difficult to overcome. Consider these examples of obstacles IT managers must contend with: • Consumerization of technology drives unrealistic expectations on the part of the customer that...
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This is a reference book for Architects. This book can be helpful for those developers who wants to increase breadth of knowledge about tools and technology. If you are planning for career advancement and you are interviewing for cloud architect, this book can also be used for interview preparation purpose. You can go through this book before your interview every time, so that you will remember all the concepts before interview.
As the technology...
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The book walks you through three different real-world mobile applications from head to toe to provide a practical, hands-on experience on how to use .NET CF. It provides you with code snippets (in both VB.NET and C#) from real-world business scenarios. A summary at the end of each chapter explains how these code snippets work together as a part of the larger whole. It also makes use of diagrams to explain core concepts and helps you decide on which...
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A Step by Step Guide on how to get the most of your Amazon Echo device *Supports all Amazon Echo devices* If not the best feature of the Echo is the immense functionality that it has. Learn how to use your device to its full capabilities just like the pros do. Herse what you'll get: - Sharing accounts - Setup - Alexa - Bluetooth connectivity - Reminders - Package tracking - Streaming music - Controlling other devices - Taking personal amazon packages...
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In Detail Koha is the first full-featured open source library management system that is widely used for efficiently managing libraries. However, setting up and maintaining Koha is no walk in the park. It is not as straightforward as setting up the other popular LAMP applications.
This practical guide provides all the essential information that is needed to make the task of installing and configuring Koha really seem simple and easy. It demonstrates...
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In Detail Funambol is a free and open source mobile synchronization server that provides push email, address book and calendar (PIM) data synchronization, and device management for wireless devices. Are you looking to sync your email and other data with mobile devices for easy access? This book will show you how to do that via the Internet cloud. With the help of this complete, practical guide you will learn how to access your email, calendar, contacts,...
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In Detail Virtualization is taking the technology world by storm and dramatically helping organizations save money. Oracle VM is free and forked from the open source Xen hypervisor, which brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. The robust capabilities and easy-to-use web interface of Oracle VM Manager helps administrators manage their Internal Data Center from anywhere in the world, helping us come closer to ubiquitous computing.
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