Mad Technology

Mad Technology
Author: I. Oh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2005-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 023055492X

At the end of the Cold War, the global economic system encountered a new phenomenon in the field of knowledge creation and technological innovation - the birth of mad technologies. This book analyses major changes in the national innovation systems (NIS) due to the introduction of mad technologies in East Asia. The authors find that mad technologies were the cause of stock market crashes and economic uncertainties in the region and conclude that successful corporations use various measures to neutralize mad technologies and/or incorporate them into the NIS.

Mad Skills

Mad Skills
Author: Ryan Diduck
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1910924776

A cultural history of MIDI (the Musical Instrument Digital Interface), one of the most revolutionary and transformative technologies in the history of music. A history of electronic music that goes way beyond the Moog. Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, aka the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, through the twentieth century's kaleidoscopic lens. Guiding us across one hundred years of musical instruments, and the music made with them, Mad Skills recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time.

Future Information Technology

Future Information Technology
Author: James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Total Pages: 920
Release: 2014-05-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 364255038X

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education and governmental domains. This book aims to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

Technology and the Diva

Technology and the Diva
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521198062

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

Mixed Analog-digital VLSI Devices and Technology

Mixed Analog-digital VLSI Devices and Technology
Author: Yannis Tsividis
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789812381118

Improve your circuit-design potential with this expert guide to the devices and technology used in mixed analog-digital VLSI chips for such high-volume applications as hard-disk drives, wireless telephones, and consumer electronics. The book provides you with a critical understanding of device models, fabrication technology, and layout as they apply to mixed analog-digital circuits.You will learn about the many device-modeling requirements for analog work, as well as the pitfalls in models used today for computer simulators such as Spice. Also included is information on fabrication technologies developed specifically for mixed-signal VLSI chips, plus guidance on the layout of mixed analog-digital chips for a high degree of analog-device matching and minimum digital-to-analog interference.This reference book features an intuitive introduction to MOSFET operation that will enable you to view with insight any MOSFET model ? besides thorough discussions on valuable large-signal and small-signal models.Filled with practical information, this first-of-its-kind book will help you grasp the nuances of mixed-signal VLSI-device models and layout that are crucial to the design of high-performance chips.

Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy (1995)

Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy (1995)
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 1996-11
Genre:
ISBN: 0788135643

Presents an overview of current U.S. S&T policy and coordination, S&T cooperation in the post-Cold War era, and its relation to foreign policy goals, such as building democracy, promoting and maintaining peace, and furthering economic growth and sustainable development. Also reviews personnel requirements, standards, and testing; and equitable access and intellectual property rights. Individual country narratives on selected countries and international organizations. Glossaries of abbreviations and acronyms. Comprehensive!

Against Technology

Against Technology
Author: Steven E. Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135522391

This book addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand against technology. Steven Jones here explains the history of the Luddites, British textile works who, from around 1811, proclaimed themselves followers of "Ned Ludd" and smashed machinery they saw as threatening their trade. Against Technology is not a history of the Luddites, but a history of an idea: how the activities of a group of British workers in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire came to stand for a global anti-technology philosophy, and how an anonymous collective movement came to be identified with an individualistic personal conviction. Angry textile workers in the early nineteenth century became romantic symbols of a desire for a simple life--certainly not the original goal of the actions for which they became famous. Against Technology is, in other words, a book about representations, about the image and the myth of the Luddites and how that myth was transformed over time into modern neo-Luddism.

Technological Determinism and Social Change

Technological Determinism and Social Change
Author: Jan Servaes
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 073919125X

This book sheds light on the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society by examining specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Columbia, Kenya, the Netherlands, and the United States.