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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.17In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median... -
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071514Author Stephen C. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646766Author Sabine HossenfelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Impr
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Erik J. Larson
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.51"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."-John Horgan"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly...
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell 9781783781980
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? 'Troubling and...
Smart Until It's Dumb: Why artificial intelligence keeps making epic mistakes (and why the AI bubble will burst) by Emmanuel Maggiori 9781838337223
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838337223Author Emmanuel MaggioriFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.63In The Future Is Analog, David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instantly gave us the digital universe we'd spent so long anticipating. Instant communication, online shopping, virtual...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsSociety is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from...
Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark...
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball 9781526607232
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI James Muldoon 9781837261819
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $17.03Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim...
Consumption Economics: The New Rules of Tech by Todd Hewlin 9780984213030
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984213030Author Todd HewlinFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition Jeffrey Ding 9780691260341
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $21.25A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers,...
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L Friedman 9780312425074
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $19.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425074Author Thomas L FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.27A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled...
Wormwood Prophecy, The by Thomas Horn 9781629997551
RRP: $25.16Booksplease Price: $17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629997551Author Thomas HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) Jamie Bartlett 9781785039065
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20**Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize****Longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing**'A superb book by one of the world's leading experts on the digital revolution' David...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom 9780199678112
RRP: $30.30Booksplease Price: $21.19The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles...
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology by Wiebe E. Bijker 9780262517607
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $38.97An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the...
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.46The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues...
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture by Sadie Plant 9781857026986
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual...
The Luminous Web: Faith, science and the experience of wonder by Barbara Brown Taylor 9781848259652
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92With her customary grace, intelligence and wit, Barbara Brown Taylor wonders why science and faith have become polarized in the popular imagination. She explores what quantum physics, the new biology...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198552Author Jenny OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz 9781529242461
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.24An insider’s guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It’s here and it’s growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with...
Mismatch by Kat Holmes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539487Author Kat HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.67Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are...
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.13We are living in a world full of games.More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. The future belongs to those...
The Essential Engineer by Henry Petroski
Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473509Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here by Nicole Kobie 9781399403108
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Applied Minds: How Engineers Think by Guru Madhavan 9780393353013
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.14In this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and...
Technological Slavery, 1: Enhanced Edition by Theodore John Kaczynski 9781944228033
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $18.31Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and...
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.63What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 9781529926095
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100' IRVINE...
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller by Tony Fadell
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.83THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (MAY 2022).An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest.Everyone deserves a mentor. For every...
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone by Lynda Gratton
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work - forever?Professor...
The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with...
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss 9781839760556
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro 9780141993843
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian...
The Information Diet Ca Johnson 9781491933398
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.03This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material. The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating,...
ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution Terrence J. Sejnowski 9780262049252
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049252Author Terrence J. SejnowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264