塞德里克•迪朗（Cédric Durand），法国知名经济学家，在巴黎第十三大学和巴黎高等商学院教授经济学和发展理论。他秉承马克思主义和法法国调节学派的政治经济学的传统，撰写了多篇关于欧元危机、金融化与全球化关系以及后苏联转型的文章。他的文章被国内外知名学术期刊和媒体广泛引用。他还是《激进在线》期刊的编委会成员。著有《技术封建主义》。

Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Whiting Foundation, he lives in Colorado.

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment wildlife populations into inbred clusters, disrupt ...(展开全部)

艾比·史密斯·拉姆齐（Abby Smith Rumsey）历史学家、作家，曾在哈佛大学学习俄罗斯学，现为美国弗吉尼亚大学学术交流研究所所长。她长期参与美国国会图书馆的国家战略项目“国家数字信息基础设施建设和保护”，帮助各类图书馆、档案馆收藏有价值的数字信息。她致力于研究数字时代的记忆、信息存储、图书馆的角色变化，以及新的信息技术如何影响我们对历史和时间的看法。

As machines become capable of doing most of the work people have performed for centuries, we are headed for a massive social reorganization. Nanotech is at the point where it’s possible to unleash invisible robots and new materials into the world that permanently alter life on Earth. With genetic engineering, we have taken evolution into our own hands, creating new species of p...(展开全部)

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

In his famous 1959 Rede lecture at Cambridge University, the scientifically-trained novelist C.P. Snow described science and the humanities as "two cultures," separated by a "gulf of mutual incomprehension." And the humanists had all the cultural power—the low prestige of science, Snow argued, left Western leaders too little educated in scientific subjects that were increasingl...(展开全部)