Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early en...(展开全部)

A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives. Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world―SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is...(展开全部)

Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious. Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the...(展开全部)

This book is an eye-opener to the differences between how software gets built and how it gets sold. -- Michael Ernest, JavaRanch Sheriff Big corporations...have the money and the brain cells, but despite this, still manage to shoot themselves in the feet every now and then. -- Valentin Crettaz, Val's Blog: Stuff for software engineers and Java addicts The history of marketing...(展开全部)

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil society. In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be d...(展开全部)

"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book - which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew - has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "...(展开全部)

"A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. The...(展开全部)

过去二十多年， Marty Cagan作为负责定义和开发产品的高级经理人为多家一流企业工作过，包括惠普、网景通信、美国在线。他曾担任eBay产品管理及产品设计高级副总裁，负责规划全球电子商务网站的产品和服务。他亲历了个人电脑、互联网、电子商务的起落沉浮，致力于通过写作、演讲、培训 帮助客户打造富有创意的产品。他在自己的网站上定期撰写博客，分享管理产品的经验。他创办了硅谷产品集团（SVPG），为“财富500强”企业和广大创业型企业提供产品咨询服务，他的客户包括Yahoo!、eBay、TiVo、BBC、PROTRADE Sports…… - 作者工作经历 - 1981年8月—1990年12月 任惠普软件技术试验室研究员。 - 1991年1月—1996年9月 创办Continuus软件公司，任副总裁、CTO。公司1996年被Telelogic公司收购。 -...(展开全部)

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? In the vei...(展开全部)