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| Author | : Meredith Broussard |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2019-01-29 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 026253701X |
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a software developer and journalist, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what we can (and should) do with technology. With this book, she offers a guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology—and issues a warning that we should never assume that computers always get things right. Making a case against technochauvinism—the belief that technology is always the solution—Broussard argues that it's just not true that social problems would inevitably retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia. To prove her point, she undertakes a series of adventures in computer programming. She goes for an alarming ride in a driverless car, concluding “the cyborg future is not coming any time soon”; uses artificial intelligence to investigate why students can't pass standardized tests; deploys machine learning to predict which passengers survived the Titanic disaster; and attempts to repair the U.S. campaign finance system by building AI software. If we understand the limits of what we can do with technology, Broussard tells us, we can make better choices about what we should do with it to make the world better for everyone.
| Author | : John Pfaff |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2017-02-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0465096921 |
A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons -- tell us much less than we think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, especially a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national catastrophe, Locked In is "a must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation" (Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation). It transforms our understanding of what ails the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.
| Author | : David Deterding |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2013-10-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110288591 |
This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions. It is based on a corpus of conversations between English speakers from south and east Asia that helps us investigate what causes misunderstandings, particularly the pronunciation, grammar, word choice, and discourse. The book also considers how such misunderstandings may be signalled and repaired. Finally, it discusses the implications for teaching English around the world and offers guidance to teachers in enabling their students to become highly intelligible.
| Author | : James Curran |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2016-02-05 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1317443519 |
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.
| Author | : Benjamin Zablocki |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 860 |
| Release | : 2001-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1487598440 |
Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate "third path" in the heated debate over new religious movements or cults, this collection includes contributions from both scholars who have been characterized as "anticult" and those characterized as "cult-apologists." The study incorporates multiple viewpoints as well as a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, with the stated goal of depolarizing the discussion over alternative religious movements. A prominent section within the book focuses explicitly on the issue of scholarly objectivity and the danger of partisanship in the study of cults. The collection also includes contributions on the controversial and much misunderstood topic of brainwashing, as well as discussions of cult violence, children brought up in unconventional religious movements, and the conflicts between alternative religious movements and their critics. Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.
| Author | : Shirsh Srivastava |
| Publisher | : BecomeShakespeare.com |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2019-12-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8194394155 |
Welcome to "The Result of Misunderstanding", a gripping story of two friends Rohit and Nivedita but the beautiful relation died due to the misunderstanding of the society and the name which they gave is "Lust." Misunderstanding danced along with ill logical and nonsense stuff on a naked platform and the result was that the beautiful bonding of friendship was turned into an ugly faded relation and due to that even their blood relation shattered. We have to understand that it is not necessary that your life partner will be your best friend and your best friend will be your partner of life, because both relationships is very different and very honest, just like two holy rivers whose stream is different but they meet in the same ocean.
| Author | : Brian Winston |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1315512203 |
The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.
| Author | : Heather Diack |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2020-06-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1452961115 |
A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art Why do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography’s potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists creatively undermined them. Studying the unique relationship between photography and conceptual art practices in the United States during the social and political instability of the late 1960s, Heather Diack offers vital new perspectives on our “post-truth” world and the importance of suspending easy conclusions in contemporary art. Considering the work of four leading conceptual artists of the 1960s and ’70s, Diack looks at photographs as documents of doubt, pushing the form beyond commonly assumed limits. Through in-depth and thorough reevaluations of early work by noted artists Mel Bochner, Bruce Nauman, Douglas Huebler, and John Baldessari, Diack advances the powerful thesis that photography provided a means of moving away from the object and toward performative effects, playing a crucial role in the development of conceptual art as a medium of doubt and contingency. Discussing how unexpected and contradictory meanings can exist in the guise of ordinary pictures, Documents of Doubt offers evocative and original ideas on truth’s connection to photography in the United States during the late 1960s and how conceptual art from that period anticipated our current era of “alternative facts” in contemporary politics and culture.
| Author | : Nicola Attico |
| Publisher | : goWare & Guerini Next |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2020-06-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 8868963434 |
Beyond Bitcoin and the world of cryptocurrencies, blockchain is an extraordinary technology that is revealing a surprising transformative power impacting all the industries. Blockchain requires a paradigm shift toward disintermediation and antifragility, which is today even more necessary for business and society. In this book, the reader will find a representation of the entire blockchain ecosystem from a pragmatic point of view that encompasses actual cases of organizations, companies, and communities that are already working hard to realize it. To understand an ecosystem so mutable and fragmented and not get lost in its complexity, it is essential to focus on the most crucial factor: the impact that these technologies can have on our lives in all the world. A new financial platform, a new way of distributing goods, a new approach to social media, a new market for fine art, a new kinds of governance (yes, also political) are some of the domains impacted by the blockchain that the book analyzes. This revolution is not happening only in Silicon Valley but in multiple hubs around the world, including New York, Zug, Shangai, London, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Tallin, and more. Moreover, the Author covers the impact of blockchain on the world of work both for traditional companies that seek to incorporate the new technology in their business model and for native blockchain organizations and communities, which are driving the technology towards mass adoption.
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| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Church and social problems |
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