In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the ...(展开全部)

This comprehensive treatment of network information theory and its applications provides the first unified coverage of both classical and recent results. With an approach that balances the introduction of new models and new coding techniques, readers are guided through Shannon's point-to-point information theory, single-hop networks, multihop networks, and extensions to distrib...(展开全部)

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-Blueprints-Voices-Matter/dp/0321600800/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234716373&sr=8-1 中文版：http://www.douban.com/subject/4076216/

Cybernetics―the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans―originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feedback, from the level of the cell to that of society. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ron...(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)

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization. Few obs...(展开全部)

In a marketplace that depends so thoroughly on cutting-edge information technology, can classic economic principles still offer any real strategic value? Yes! say Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian. In Information Rules, they reveal that many conventional economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. Shapiro and Varian argue t...(展开全部)

Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities...(展开全部)

斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆（Stanisław Lem） 波兰作家，1921年生于利沃夫，二战后迁至克拉科夫，展开写作生涯。他的作品涉猎人工智能、控制论、宇宙学、基因工程、博弈论、社会学和进化论，探讨了技术和智能的本质，被翻译成五十种语言，总销量超过四千五百万册。《纽约时报》称他代表着“我们这个时代的深邃精神”，库尔特·冯内古特、厄休拉·勒古恩、菲利普·迪克、安杰伊·萨普科夫斯基都被他的才华所折服。 毛蕊 上海外国语大学俄罗斯东欧中亚学院波兰语专业负责人、波兰雅盖隆大学波兰语言文学系博士生，研究方向为语言学及语言教学，曾在波兰克拉科夫孔子学院及雅盖隆大学工作六年。自2017年上外开设波兰语专业以来担任专任教师及班导师工作，曾多次获得优秀教学奖及学生最喜欢的公选课教师称号；主持多项与波兰语言文学、波兰语教学相关、课程改革及教材编写等校级项目，参与波兰语言本体研...(展开全部)

斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆（Stanisław Lem） 波兰作家，1921年生于利沃夫，二战后迁至克拉科夫，展开写作生涯。他的作品涉猎人工智能、控制论、宇宙学、基因工程、博弈论、社会学和进化论，探讨了技术和智能的本质，被翻译成五十种语言，总销量超过四千五百万册。《纽约时报》称他代表着“我们这个时代的深邃精神”，库尔特·冯内古特、厄休拉·勒古恩、菲利普·迪克、安杰伊·萨普科夫斯基都被他的才华所折服。 毛蕊 上海外国语大学俄罗斯东欧中亚学院波兰语专业负责人、波兰雅盖隆大学波兰语言文学系博士生，研究方向为语言学及语言教学，曾在波兰克拉科夫孔子学院及雅盖隆大学工作六年。自2017年上外开设波兰语专业以来担任专任教师及班导师工作，曾多次获得优秀教学奖及学生最喜欢的公选课教师称号；主持多项与波兰语言文学、波兰语教学相关、课程改革及教材编写等校级项目，参与波兰语言本体研...(展开全部)