Science & Technology Policy

Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544566Author Johan SoderbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A searing insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.

This fascinating book explores the role of public and private external innovation in enhancing the creation of scientific knowledge. Albert Link explores how external knowledge innovation leads to the creation of scientific knowledge, which in turn...

Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR. The book adopts the widespread view that Soviet science performs well below capacity and then looks at the...

Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific...

This book explores the role of private mining rights in the utopian imaginary of space colonisation. It presents a transdisciplinary account of the new and evolving legislative frameworks that have been established in anticipation of commercial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552431Author Barry BozemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, and what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology. In recent decades, a new style of authoritarian politics has taken hold throughout...

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is...

We have entered a recent zeitgeist; the era of the 'new space age', driven by billionaires, technological advancements, and a few dominating state powers. All the while, the climate is in crisis and near the point of irrevocable damage resulting in vast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548069Author Jennifer HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549448Author William B. BonvillianFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction...