Spydus Search Results - Subject: Information society (Keywords)

Fancy bear goes phishing : the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks / Scott J. Shapiro.

With lucidity and wit, Scott Shapiro establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian 'Dark Avenger' who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hilton's cell phone and the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, among others. In telling their stories, he exposes the hackers' tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions - why is the internet so vulnerable, and what can we do in response?
Author: Shapiro, Scott J.
Published: UK : Allen Lane, 2023.
420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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The coming wave : AI, power and the twenty-first century's greatest dilemma / Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar.

We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks - operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability. We are not prepared. As cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution, one poised to become the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
Published: London : The Bodley Head, 2023.
xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm
1 reserve

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This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyber weapons arms race / Nicole Perlroth.

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power in an entire nation - just ask the Ukraine. Zero days are the blood diamonds of the security trade, pursued by nation states, defense contractors, cybercriminals, and security defenders alike. In this market, governments aren't regulators; they are clients - paying huge sums to hackers willing to turn over gaps in the Internet, and stay silent about them. This book is cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth's discovery, unpacked. An intrepid journalist unravels an opaque, code-driven market from the outside in - encountering spies, hackers, arms dealers, mercenaries and a few unsung heroes along the way.
Author: Perlroth, Nicole
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2021.
512 pages ; 24 cm

St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 363.325 - Available - 30111069200003

This is not propaganda : adventures in the war against reality / Peter Pomerantsev.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. 40 years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage, part intellectual adventure, this book is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.
Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
Published: London : Faber, 2020.
270 pages ; 20 cm

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The digital ape : how to live (in peace) with smart machines / Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson.

The smart machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Shadbolt and Hampson - Britain's pre-eminent authorities on AI - dispel terror, confusion and misconception by demonstrating that we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation.
Author: Shadbolt, Nigel, 1956-
Published: Melbourne : Scribe, 2019.
354 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 303.4833 - Available - 30111068927739

Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence / Max Tegmark.

AI is the future of science, technology, and business - and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has AI brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of AI is the story of intelligence - of life processes as they evolve from bacteria (1.0) to humans (2.0), where life processes define their own software, to technology (3.0), where life processes design both their hardware and software. It raises questions that we all need to address: What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? These are the issues at the heart of this book and its unique perspective, which seeks a ground apart from techno-skepticism and digital utopia.
Author: Tegmark, Max
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
xii, 364 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

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Irresistible : why you are addicted to technology and how to set yourself free / Adam Alter.

How many times have you checked your phone today? Why are messaging apps, email and social media so hard to resist? How come we always end up watching another episode? In recent years, media and technology have perfected the lucrative art of gaining and holding our attention. This extraordinary feat has changed the behaviour of billions of people, and especially the young: by current medical standards, we are experiencing an unprecedented, global pandemic of addiction. But what exactly is an addiction? And what, if anything, might we do about it?
Author: Alter, Adam L., 1980-
Published: London : Vintage Books, 2017.
354 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

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Head in the cloud : the power of knowledge in the age of Google / William Poundstone.

What's the point of knowing anything when facts are so easy to look up? Just reach for your computer, tablet or mobile and ask the sky. We're living in the golden age of rational ignorance where more people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was and most of us can't name the largest ocean on the planet. Yet the latest research indicates that the better informed are healthier, happier and often dramatically wealthier. William Poundstone conducts a hilarious and humbling investigation into the true worth of knowledge. What does it tell you, for example, when those who can pinpoint a country on a map are less likely to favour invading it?
Author: Poundstone, William
Published: London : Oneworld, 2016.
306 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

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The organized mind : thinking straight in the age of information overload / Daniel J. Levitin.

Acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tells us how to organise our lives and cope with the demands of the modern age.
Author: Levitin, Daniel J.
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
xxii, 496 pages ; 20 cm

St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 153.42 - Available - 30111068309003

The end of absence : reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection / Michael Harris.

Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the one that future generations will find hardest to grasp: that is, the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true 'free time' when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your own thoughts.
Author: Harris, Michael, 1980-
[New] edition.
Published: New York : Current, 2015.
x, 246 pages ; 21 cm

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 302.231 - Available - 30111044619020

Who owns the future? / Jaron Lanier.

Digital systems change the way power is gained, lost, distributed and defended in human affairs. This text looks at the survival of the middle class on the surface, and about the role of ego and sentiment in personhood in its depths.
Author: Lanier, Jaron
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2014.
xxi, 372 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

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Too much information : ... or can everyone just shut up for a moment, some of us are trying to think / Dave Gorman.

Nowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it's on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks it's time to have a closer look, to find out how much nonsense we tacitly accept. Suspicious adverts, baffling newspaper headlines, fake twitter, endless cat videos, insane TV shows where the presenters ask the same questions over and over. Can we even hear ourselves think over the rising din? Or is there just too much information?
Author: Gorman, Dave, 1971-
Published: [London] : Ebury Press, 2014.
xiii, 332 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
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Now for then : how to face the digital future without fear / Ben Hammersley.

This is an accessible guide to the way the Internet is changing our lives and how to survive these changes.
Author: Hammersley, Ben
Published: London : Hodder, 2013.
xii, 433 pages ; 20 cm

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 303.4833 - Available - 30111067312099

The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.

James Gleick, the author of the best-sellers 'Chaos' and 'Genius', brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
Author: Gleick, James
Published: London : Fourth Estate, 2012.
526 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

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The net delusion : how not to liberate the world / Evgeny Morozov.

Does free information mean free people? At the start of the 21st century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. In 'The Net Delusion', Evgeny Morozov destroys this myth, arguing that 'internet freedom' is an illusion, and that technology has failed to help protect people's rights.
Author: Morozov, Evgeny
Published: London : Penguin, 2012.
xvii, 408 p. ; 20 cm.

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Digital vertigo : how today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us / Andrew Keen.

Fusing an historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of 'social' companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age.
Author: Keen, Andrew
Published: London : Constable, 2012.
246 p. ; 22 cm.

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 302.30285 - Available - 30111067029446

Cognitive surplus : creativity and generosity in a connected age / Clay Shirky.

Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy and time, a cognitive surplus. Shirky argues that this cognitive surplus, rather than being some strange new departure from normal behaviour, actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up to and through the early 20th century.
Author: Shirky, Clay
Published: London : Penguin, 2011.
242 p. ; 20 cm.

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The revolution will be digitised : dispatches from the information war / Heather Brooke.

In 'The Revolution will be Digitised,' Heather Brooke reports back from the front lines of the Information War, a shadow world of computer hackers, cypherpunks, encryption experts, whistleblowers and pro-democracy campaigners. She takes us to San Francisco and Boston, where pioneering geeks launch cyber warfare at night.
Author: Brooke, Heather
Published: London : William Heinemann, 2011.
xiv, 251 p. ; 22 cm.

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Cognitive surplus : creativity and generosity in a connected age / Clay Shirky.

Since the postwar boom, we've had a surfeit of intellect, energy and time, a cognitive surplus. Shirky argues that this cognitive surplus, rather than being some strange new departure from normal behaviour, actually returns our society to forms of collaboration that were natural to us up to and through the early 20th century.
Author: Shirky, Clay
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2010.
242 p. ; 23 cm.

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Generation A / Douglas Coupland.

In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
Author: Coupland, Douglas
Published: London : Windmill, 2010.
357 p. ; 20 cm.

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Future minds : how the digital age is changing our minds, why this matters, and what we can do about it / Richard Watson.

'Future Minds' illsutrated how to maximize the potential of digital technology and minimize its greatest downside, addressing the future of thinking and how we can ensure that we unleash the extraordinary potential of the human mind.
Author: Watson, Richard, 1961-
Published: London : Nicholas Brealey, 2010.
ix, 211 p. ; 24 cm.

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Cyburbia : the dangerous idea that's changing how we live and who we are / James Harkin.

How our new world - of texting, social networking, instant messaging and email - was built and how it has changed the way we relate to everything in our lives.
Author: Harkin, James, 1971-
Published: London : Little, Brown, 2009.
xiii, 274 p. ; 25 cm.

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Generation A / Douglas Coupland.

In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
Author: Coupland, Douglas
Published: London : William Heinemann, 2009.
297 p. ; 23 cm.

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It's your world, so change it : using the power of the internet to create social change / by Tom Head.

There's been plenty of hype about the 'netroots,' and online activism on both the right and left. But most of it's been celebratory, not practical. This is a practical, start to finish guide to promoting any cause and participating in any social movement on the social Web.
Author: Head, Tom
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : Que ; London : Pearson Education [distributor], 2009.
288 p. ; 23 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 303.4 - Available - 30111045201596

The pirate's dilemma : how hackers, punk capitalists, graffiti millionaires and other youth movements are remixing our culture and changing our world / Matt Mason.

Should piracy be treated as a problem or a solution? 'The Pirate's Dilemma' explores the underground trends that have spawned worldwide movements, addressing some of our most basic assumptions about business, society and our collective future.
Author: Mason, Matt (Matt James)
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2008.
276 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.

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The world is flat : the globalized world in the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman.

This text presents a picture of the state of globalisation, its successes and discontents, in the 21st century. The author demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes.
Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Updated and expanded ed.
Published: London : Penguin, 2006.
viii, 593 p. ; 20 cm.

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The world is flat : a brief history of the globalized world in the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman.

This text presents a picture of the state of globalisation, its successes and discontents, in the 21st century. The author demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes.
Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.
viii, 488 p. ; 24 cm.

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Republic.com / Cass Sunstein.

This text shows us how to approach the Internet as responsible people. Democracy, it maintains, depends on shared experiences and requires people to be exposed to topics and ideas that they would not have chosen in advance.
Author: Sunstein, Cass R.
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2002.
240p. ; 18 cm.

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Investigating the information society / Hugh Mackay with Wendy Maples and Paul Reynolds.

This text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society. It explores three core themes: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in everyday life.
Author: Mackay, Hugh
Published: London : Routledge, 2001.
viii, 144 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

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The social life of information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.

Taking into account the way people really live, work and act, this book is about technology, society and the new economy, this is a major contribution to the debate over the implications of the new information technologies and their value to society.
Author: Brown, John Seely
Published: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School ; New York : McGraw-Hill [distributor], 2000.
304p. ; 24 cm.

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