The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series – serie
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Large Language Models
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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An in-depth history of Large Language Models—and what their ubiquity, disruption, and creativity mean from a wider sociopolitical perspective.In November 2022, ChatGPT swept the globe with a mixed frenzy of excitement and anxiety. Was this a step closer to reaching singularity or just another …
Cannabinoids
Häftad, 2026
187 kr
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The mysteries of the brain’s own cannabinoid system exposed and explained.Though cannabis has been used, for pain or pleasure, for over 4000 years, only lately have we learned, first, what makes it work and, more recently, how. Unraveling the mystery of the human brain’s special relationship with a …
Cultural Appropriation
Av Patti Tamara Lenard, Peter Balint
Häftad, 2026
201 kr
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What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one’s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, …
Auditing AI
Häftad, 2026
207 kr
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How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that …
GIFs
Av Matthew Beale, Jamie Henthorn
Häftad, 2026
191 kr
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An illuminating deep dive into the GIF and its evolution from a technical workaround to a powerful digital communication tool.Since its creation in 1987, the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has transformed from a practical workaround for slow internet connections into a dynamic mode of digital …
Peer Production
Av Benjamin Mako Hill, Christian Pentzold Pentzold
Häftad, 2026
196 kr
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How a unique form of working together has built—and is critical to sustain—our age of information. Peer production describes a unique form of global collaboration that is responsible for creating some of the most vital parts of the internet. Information ecosystem powerhouses like Wikipedia and the …
Algorithms
Häftad, 2020
185 kr
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An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas.Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines …
Phenomenology
Häftad, 2020
191 kr
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A concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, which investigates the experience of experience.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. …
Behavioral Insights
Häftad, 2020
185 kr
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The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this “automatic” side of our …
Nuclear Weapons
Häftad, 2022
188 kr
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A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world’s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are …
Cloud Computing, revised and updated edition
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution.In this Essential Knowledge volume, Nayan B. Ruparelia provides an updated and revised version of Cloud Computing, first published in …
Universal Basic Income
Häftad, 2024
191 kr
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An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with …
Cyborg
Av Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau
Häftad, 2024
180 kr
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A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and …
Endangered Languages
Häftad, 2024
185 kr
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A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world’s languages—or, approximately 4,000 languages—are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than …
Tech Monopoly
Häftad, 2024
165 kr
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A serious look at competition problems in tech markets and whether antitrust law can help address them. In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft has been criticized as anticompetitive, and many have wondered if antitrust law can help protect …
Galaxies
Av Or Graur
Häftad, 2024
201 kr
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An eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies. In Galaxies , Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of …
Blockchain Governance
Av Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers
Häftad, 2024
199 kr
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An engaging and comprehensive exploration of how fundamental ideas in political and legal thought shape the governance of blockchain communities, and are, in turn, shaped by blockchain technology.How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of …
Artificial General Intelligence
Häftad, 2024
196 kr
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How to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society. Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every day are based on AI technology. Although some very recent AI systems are generalists to a degree, …
Standards
Av Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jason Griffey
Häftad, 2025
191 kr
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An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world. Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and Jason …
Carbon Removal
Av Howard J. Herzog, Niall Mac Dowell
Häftad, 2025
191 kr
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How technology and policy can come together to remove carbon from our atmosphere.Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is recognized as essential for meeting “net-zero” climate targets. The first definitive resource on CDR, this book is an accessible guide meant to provide a fundamental understanding of the …
Biological Rhythms
Häftad, 2025
180 kr
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The secret language of your vital signs—and how to read and understand it.From the firing of neurons in a fraction of a second to the monthly cycle of ovulation to a seasonal shift in sleep patterns, the human body runs on rhythms—all more knowable now than ever, thanks to wearables. Making …
Inflation
Av Martha Olney
Häftad, 2025
207 kr
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From an award-winning professor of economics, an accessible and comprehensive introduction to what causes, and what can address, increases in the cost of living.Anyone who has balked at the price of a carton of eggs or lamented the cost of a tank of gas in the past five years has experienced the …
Internet Stack
Av Amrit Tiwana
Häftad, 2025
210 kr
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An accessible journey through the seam that connects the digital world of the Internet to our physical world.The stack—the conduit between our digital and physical worlds—is the elusive, mysterious, and least-understood part of the Internet. In the five seconds it took you to read that, 100 …
