Just about any social need is now met with an opportuniy to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our...(展开全部)

Ronald Reagan's most-quoted living author--Gilder--is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom, just when the economy desperately needs a new direction.

Review White House Budget Director Peter Orszag is a numbers guy, a propeller head as President Obama would say. But as David Von Drehle and I write in this week's print version of Time, Orszag has been spending his time recently reading not about spreadsheets, but about psychology. In particular, he has been reading a new book by the economists George Akerlof and Robert Shille...(展开全部)

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisd...(展开全部)

Informal, friendly, and humorous, this little book has inspired thousands since its 1925 publication. Its practical examples show how positive attitudes can make you a "winner" in life. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale endorsed it as an essential guide, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, have better health."

John T. Cacioppo s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context a factor so strong that it can alter DNA replication. He defines an unrecogniz...(展开全部)

Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at ...(展开全部)

罗德尼•迪塔特（Rodney Dietert）是康奈尔大学免疫毒理学的教授，也是康奈尔环境毒理学教学科研机构的成员，他的学术专著发表在超过60种专业期刊上。作为一个演讲者，迪特参加各种世界级的论坛，到访100多个国家，他的观众包括科研机构、政府组织、大学学院、私人企业、健康倡导组织等。他在微生物研究界颇有声望，还作为嘉宾出现在2014年的获奖纪录片Microbirth里面。他将毕生心血致力于研究因环境引起的各类慢性疾病对人类（特别是儿童）造成的影响，并寻求解决途径，保护人类的健康。

杰里米·鲍伯戈（Jeremy J. Baumberg，生于1967年），剑桥大学纳米光子中心主任，卡文迪许实验室教授，英国皇家学会会员。因其在纳米光子领域所作的贡献，获杨氏奖（2013）、拉姆福德奖章（2014）、法拉第奖章（2017）。 --------------- 译者简介： 汪婕舒，美国亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）科技人文与社会项目博士研究生，工学硕士，乔治敦大学传播、文化与科技项目硕士，曾任专利审查员和科普编辑，译有多本畅销科普书。热爱科学技术，也关心科技如何为人类创造福祉。目前研究方向为人工智能（AI）的社会影响，以及AI如何帮助人类创新。

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovationand facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and ...(展开全部)