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Jeremy Logan novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
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English
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The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology. Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern work day. But his readers had an urgent follow-up question: What about technology in our personal lives? In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology...
4) Naqoyqatsi
Series
Criterion collection volume 642
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Through a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-lapse, computer-generated imagery, and found footage, the film tells of a world that has completed the transition from the natural to the artificial. Globalization has been accomplished, all of our interactions are technologically mediated, and all images are manipulated
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With a visual approach to the STEM subjects, this book makes science easy to understand and shows kids how things work. From molecules and magnetism to rockets and radio waves, How to Be Good at Science, Technology, and Engineering makes complex scientific concepts simple to grasp. Dynamic, visual explanations break down even the trickiest of topics into small steps. Find out how a hot-air balloon rises, how erosion flattens mountains, how light waves...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it. In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will...
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Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The youngest and brightest of the tech world are invited to work for one of the most prestigious companies in Silicon Valley, but when they discover that only a precious few will be offered full-time jobs, reckless ambition and cut-throat competition eclipse their burgeoning friendships and romances. Beekor Industries is the biggest tech company in the world. They have transformed the way society interacts with hologram technology, from mobile phones...
8) A web of air
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the power goes out, it sparks an idea for Dot, Hal, Mom, and Dad. But stepping away from gadgets and devices isn't as easy as it seems. No video games, no laptaps or tablet, no drone. A trip to the basement turns up some interesting materials, none of which require electricity, software, or Internet access. What Dot and her family will need to plug into are their imaginations, creativity, and sense of adventure. They sing, play games, make art,...
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Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un libro iluminador sobre cómo manejarnos en un mundo hiperconectado», Andrés Oppenheimer. En las últimas décadas, la vertiginosa sucesión de innovaciones tecnológicas -desde la fabricación de vehículos eléctricos y autónomos hasta la ingeniería genética, pasando por smartphones, redes sociales y aplicaciones- alteró por completo las bases sobre las que la humanidad organizó durante siglos la vida en sociedad. ¿Cómo lidiar con estos...
12) Powaqqatsi
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi employs a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the beauty of the traditional ways of life in those parts of the planet, and to show how cultures there are being eroded as their environments are taken over by industry.
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argues that big tech companies-Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple-represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age, and proposes a democratic, hopeful path forward"--
Author
Publisher
Imagine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Outlines the process of making and patenting inventions and presents innovations in such fields as transportation, appliances, child and pet care, and amusement that did not work, were too early or too late, or failed for other reasons.
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Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Offers an up-to-date guide on the latest technology, procedures, and drugs available to women who are having difficulty conceiving, providing advice on how to make the right fertility choices.
16) The signal
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nic, his girlfriend Haley and his buddy Jonah take a detour from an idyllic cross-country road trip when they are contacted by a mysterious hacker who has gained entry into MIT's most secretive networks. But after a rendezvous in an eerily isolated spot goes awry, Nic wakes to a living nightmare in an isolation unit. Interrogated by Dr. Wallace Damon, Nic soon realizes that the only way to decipher the past is to escape the present.
17) Get inventing!
Author
Publisher
Capstone Raintree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This title teaches readers how to stop dreaming about becoming an inventor--and take steps to make their dreams come true! Helpful tips for finding inspiration, keeping an ideas journal and always thinking about how to improve things will help your reader inventing in no time! An activity at the end of the book encourages readers to invent their own board game and test it out."--
18) The assassin
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 8
Language
English
Description
"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin-shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range-kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a near future where most adults are connected to the multiweb through neural implants, a twelve-year-old uncovers a corporate plot to genetically manipulate her classmates, and her scientist mother may be involved in the conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
“Googles algorithms assume the worlds future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why its wrong: the future depends on human action.” Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. “If you want to be clued in to the unfolding future, then you have come...
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