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Author | : Ramesh Srinivasan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0262539608 |
How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America, and elsewhere, visiting the “design labs” of rural, low-income, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.
Author | : Dan M. Khanna |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780815327240 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) |
ISBN | : 1607320355 |
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the U.S. park system, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its second edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park's cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more.
Author | : California. State Board of Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : California |
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Aquifers |
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Author | : Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 2016 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Ship registers |
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Author | : Stuart M. Ball |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1996-04-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780824817855 |
This book will take you where few people go—to active volcanoes, lush valleys, cascading waterfalls, secluded beaches, and windswept ridges and sea cliffs. Written in the same style and format as the successful The Hikers Guide to O‘ahu, this detailed, fully illustrated guide highlights ten of the best backpacking trips on the Big Island, Kaua‘i, Maui, and O‘ahu. Even those with years of experience hiking in the islands will find The Backpackers Guide full of useful information. Additional notes on the plants, birds, geology, history, and legends of each area make this volume Hawai‘i’s most complete backpacking guide.
Author | : Thomas David Williams |
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Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Geography |
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