Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions (Suchman Lucy)(Paperback)

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions (Suchman Lucy)(Paperback)

This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and

Deep Thinking - Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Kasparov Garry)(Paperback / softback)

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Mindell David A.)(Paperback)

The incredible story of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate achievement in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (Hershock Peter D.)(Paperback)

When machine learning, data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence, Peter Hershock gives us a new way to think about attention, presence and ethics in our changing lives by balancing Western technology with Asian philosophy. Rather than

Human/Machine: The Future of Our Partnership with Machines (Newman Daniel)(Paperback)

Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of the future of

OTHERWORLDS (DAVID LUKE)(Paperback)

A comprehensive exploration of chemically mediated extra ordinary human experiences. Scientist and psychonaut David Luke weaves personal experience and scientific research to create Otherworlds - Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience. 'Emphasizing parapsychological aspects of the

Sensation Machines (Wilson Adam)(Paperback)

A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a Post-Trump America in economic free fall Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he lost the couple's

Hello, Robot.: Design Between Human and Machine (Kries Mateo)(Paperback)

Robotics now: from transport drones and intelligent sensors to the debate around Industry 4.0Hello, Robot.: Design between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is becoming part of our everyday lives, demonstrating that design in its traditional function as a mediator is indispensable if

Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I (Mumford Lewis)(Paperback)

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of

The Player of Games (Banks Iain M.)(Paperback)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy,

The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness (Rockwell Lizzy)(Paperback)

A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move. Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and