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)

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)

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrep...(展开全部)

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrep...(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。

凯文·凯利（Kevin Kelly，1952～，人们经常亲昵地称他为 KK），《连线》（Wired）杂志创始主编。在创办《连线》之前，是《全球概览》杂志（The Whole Earth Catalog，乔布斯最喜欢的杂志）的编辑和出版人。1984年，KK发起了第一届黑客大会（Hackers Conference）。他的文章还出现在《纽约时报》、《经济学人》、《时代》、《科学》等重量级媒体和杂志上。 凯文·凯利被看作是“网络文化”（Cyberculture）的发言人和观察者，也有人称之为“游侠”（maverick）。

凯文·凯利（Kevin Kelly，1952～，人们经常亲昵地称他为 KK），《连线》（Wired）杂志创始主编。在创办《连线》之前，是《全球概览》杂志（The Whole Earth Catalog，乔布斯最喜欢的杂志）的编辑和出版人。1984年，KK发起了第一届黑客大会（Hackers Conference）。他的文章还出现在《纽约时报》、《经济学人》、《时代》、《科学》等重量级媒体和杂志上。 凯文·凯利被看作是“网络文化”（Cyberculture）的发言人和观察者，也有人称之为“游侠”（maverick）。

Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. The 12 essays address ...(展开全部)