This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1...(展开全部)

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In thi...(展开全部)

A provocative exploration of photography’s relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture. Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and ...(展开全部)

Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur." Now, in The Internet...(展开全部)

杰里米•里夫金（Jeremy Rifkin） 当代最著名的思想家之一，华盛顿特区经济趋势基金会主席，他的20部著作被翻译成35种语言在全球广泛发行。里夫金为欧盟和世界多国提供政策咨询和建议，并在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院担任讲师。2012年，杰里米•里夫金的著作《第三次工业革命》获得了瞩目的成就。他关于后碳时代可持续发展经济模式的研究获得了李克强总理及欧盟、联合国、德国总理默克尔、法国总统奥朗德的肯定。 杰里米•里夫金的最新作品《零边际成本社会》一书系统地做出了关于未来世界的三大预测：协同共享经济将颠覆许多世界大公司的运行模式；现有的能源体系和结构将被能源互联网所替代；机器革命来临，我们现在的很多工作将消失。 《金融时报》评论认为，《零边际成本社会》是一本发人深省的读物，是杰里米•里夫金长达40年思想的集大成之作。《财富》杂志则认为，《零边际成本社...(展开全部)

杰里米•里夫金（Jeremy Rifkin） 当代最著名的思想家之一，华盛顿特区经济趋势基金会主席，他的20部著作被翻译成35种语言在全球广泛发行。里夫金为欧盟和世界多国提供政策咨询和建议，并在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院担任讲师。2012年，杰里米•里夫金的著作《第三次工业革命》获得了瞩目的成就。他关于后碳时代可持续发展经济模式的研究获得了李克强总理及欧盟、联合国、德国总理默克尔、法国总统奥朗德的肯定。 杰里米•里夫金的最新作品《零边际成本社会》一书系统地做出了关于未来世界的三大预测：协同共享经济将颠覆许多世界大公司的运行模式；现有的能源体系和结构将被能源互联网所替代；机器革命来临，我们现在的很多工作将消失。 《金融时报》评论认为，《零边际成本社会》是一本发人深省的读物，是杰里米•里夫金长达40年思想的集大成之作。《财富》杂志则认为，《零边际成本社...(展开全部)

Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus , of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path...(展开全部)

Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. That’s where The Influence Effect comes in.

Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions -- errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world. These delusions affect the business press and academic research, as well as many ...(展开全部)