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  • The Connected Parent

    An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World

    by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser ...
    An essential guide for parents navigating the new frontier of hyper-connected kids.Today's teenagers spend about nine hours per day online. Parents of this ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should an eight-year-old be allowed to go on social media? How can parents help their children gain the most from the best aspects of the digital age? How can we ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Born Digital

    How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age

    by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser ...
    "An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." -- Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being DigitalThe first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to Law and Digital Technologies

    by Urs Gasser, John Palfrey ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This book provides a pathway for understanding the law in ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Guardrails

    Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

    by Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger ...
    How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

    Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Effy Vayena, Urs Gasser ...
    When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health ... Read more

    $85.29 USD

  • Interop

    The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems

    by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser ...
    In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability -- the standardization and integration of technology -- and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond.The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Guardrails

    Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

    by Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger ...
    Narrated by Anand Jagatia ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals how society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, "guardrails" guiding our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today's world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Connected Parent

    An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World

    by John Palfrey, Urs Gasser ...
    Narrated by Abby Craden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    An essential guide for parents navigating the new frontier of hyper-connected kids.Today's teenagers spend about nine hours per day online. Parents of this ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should an eight-year-old be allowed to go on social media? How can parents help their children gain the most from the best aspects of the digital age? How can we ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology

    by Alexandra Schmidt ...
    "Do no harm" is Alex Schmidt's mantra throughout Deliberate Intervention—a book that delves into how policy and design can work together to prevent harms in technology. Using the journalistic approach she employed as an NPR reporter, Schmidt studies the history of policy making, its biases, and its evolution in the changing technology field. The beginning of each chapter highlights a graphic ... Read more

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  • Data Science for Social Good

    Philanthropy and Social Impact in a Complex World

    Edited by Massimo Lapucci, Ciro Cattuto ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is a collection of reflections by thought leaders at first-mover organizations in the exploding field of "Data Science for Social Good", meant as the application of knowledge from computer science, complex systems and computational social science to challenges such as humanitarian response, public health, sustainable development. The book provides both an overview of scientific ... Read more

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  • System Error

    Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

    by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein ...
    " System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    by Shoshana Zuboff ...
    **An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook