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1) El entramado
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En El entramado, Christian Ferrer reflexiona sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la técnica y la vida cotidiana. "Medios y espectáculos ofrecen refugio y paliativo a infinidad de vidas dañadas, aunque la consecuencia de acostumbrarse a ellos es fomentar el hábito de ocuparse de las cosas no ocupándose de lo que es importante, es decir llevando adelante vidas que quizás se preferiría no repetir en una eventual reencarnación. Encontrar virtud...
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Quantum computers are on the doorstep and artificial intelligence has already entered our living rooms. Research breakthroughs determine the latest company's stock values. Reasonable investment volumes and financial funding frameworks are in place. This signals that profitable applications are within sight and the pace of development is increasing rapidly.
Corporate business and governments are powerful drivers, offering personalized products for...
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Esta obra pone en claro por qué el petróleo se ha convertido en la sangre del sistema político y económico mundial; y su control, en eje de la política de las potencias. Mediante los casos de Colombia y México, con claridad y agudeza, la autora analiza cómo es que las bonanzas de producción y precios se transformaron en agotamiento de las reservas, petrolización de las cuentas fiscales, retroceso de la agricultura y las manufacturas, y precariedad...
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At the end of 2019, Aron Lee decided to live 2020 without access to the Internet. He would interact with the world in what we have already come to think of as the "old-fashioned" way: taking calls and texting on a flip phone, paying bills by cheque (and receiving them by snail mail), and writing actual pen-on-paper letters to friends and family, all the while continuing his doctoral work at McGill University. Along the way he discovered a good deal...
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"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines." -Steven D. Levitt, bestselling co-author of Freakonomics
From leading data scientists...
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A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from-for the first time-the point of view of the user
In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created a new, unprecedented cultural space that we are all a part of-even if we don't participate, that is how we participate-but by which...
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In the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge, we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage.
'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But, it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves.
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In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type:...
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There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they stand together, they're poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven't stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too.
But what are unions? And why do they matter? Ethan Marcotte answers these questions through extensive research...
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Veteran NPR® science correspondent and award-winning radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow's enthusiasm for all things science has made him a beloved on-air journalist. For more than thirty-five years, Flatow has interviewed the top scientists and researchers on many NPR and PBS programs, including his popular Science Friday® spot on Talk of the Nation. In Present at the Future, he shares the groundbreaking revelations from those conversations, including...
11) Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
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In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn...
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Este libro recoge casos de modelos de negocio reales que nos acercan al entendimiento de cómo distintas compañías -de diversas industrias- han enfrentado los desafíos que el siglo XXI impuso y que les permitieron generar soluciones que abonan a una cultura de paz, desde la tecnología.
A raíz de la crisis sanitaria se demostró la gran capacidad de resiliencia y de actuar de manera innovadora y colaborativa de muchas empresas. La aceleración...
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A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life?"
At a time when we're all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to the digital age. Part intellectual journey, part memoir, Hamlet's BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers calls the conundrum of connectedness. Our computers...
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In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels", demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge.
Just a few companies dominate...
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The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information Age and power-hungry Washington insiders that will shape the politics of the twenty-first century.
Packed with exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting,...
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Plongez dans les mystères fascinants de l'intelligence humaine avec 'L'Énigme de l'Intelligence Humaine'. Ce livre captivant explore les multiples dimensions de l'intelligence, de son évolution à travers les siècles aux dernières frontières de la recherche en neurosciences. Découvrez les différentes approches pour mesurer l'intelligence, en remettant en question les normes établies et en plaidant en faveur d'une compréhension plus nuancée.Explorez...
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The financial industry derives its legitimacy through the claim that it acts in the interest of shareholders. A vast international network of funds, banks, insurance companies, brokerages, rating agencies, and regulatory agencies defends its status by asserting that market mechanisms determine a company's true value and therefore enriching shareholders contributes to the socially optimal allocation of capital. Is this how stock prices are determined...
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"In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?"
In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face interaction, for fear that the use of all this artificial...
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iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the "psychology of technology," Dr. Larry Rosen offers clear, down-to-earth explanations for why many...
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Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model for emulation.
By the late 1990s, digital activists embraced a philosophy of free software and "free culture" in order to take control over their cities and everyday lives. Free culture, previously tethered to the digital realm, was cut loose and used to...
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