弗洛·康韦（Flo Conway）毕业于新墨西哥大学，获得新闻学学士学位。后于俄勒冈州大学获得硕士及博士学位。在那里，她开创了第一个跨学科的交流项目。 吉姆·西格尔曼（Jim Siegelman）以优异的成绩毕业于哈佛大学哲学系，他还担任过哈佛讽刺报的主席。后作为剑桥大学三一学院的奖学金获得者，在哲学、语言学和符号学方面进行了研究学习。 两人都是获奖记者、传播学研究人员，合著有《迷失》《神圣的恐怖》，现定居美国纽约市。

Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics , catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism. Based on a wea...(展开全部)

Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics , catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism. Based on a wea...(展开全部)

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking―and why we all need to understand it. It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draw...(展开全部)

A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal...(展开全部)

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so...(展开全部)

【英】詹姆斯·布莱德尔 作家、科技专家、记者和视觉艺术家。英国《卫报》电子杂志专栏作家。知名杂志《科克斯书评》（Kirkus）称之为：计算机时代的乔治·奥威尔。

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, cons...(展开全部)

In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities --convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: commu...(展开全部)

Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, indep...(展开全部)