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Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Updated, with a new preface.
Language
English
Description
"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition... We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever. The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and obliterate social organizations. Pundits predicted that information technology would obliterate the need for almost everything--from...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
43) Doll-E 1.0
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present, she upgrades it with a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend.
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Artificial Intelligence covers a wide variety of topics in the emerging field of machine learning, including facial identification, voice recognition, video games, driverless cars, and robot helpers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won't, and why-explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don't begin with the letter H. Ingredients offers the perspective of a chemist on the stuff we eat, drink, inhale, and smear on ourselves. Apart from the burning question of whether you should eat that Cheeto, Zaidan explores a range of topics"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hello, world.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code—and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think,...
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code—and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Come and meet the smartest artificial intelligences of the past, present, and future. This cutting-edge book introduces pioneering AI machines such as Watson and Sophia, and lifts the lid on how they work. Meet machines that look like humans, pit your wits against AlphaGo and Deep Blue, and seek advice from Recommendation Engine. With The Code Room, there is even a chance to imagine what it is like to be an AI yourself. There's nothing smarter than...
51) Anyone: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch--and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life--and the world--forever. Over two decades later, all across the planet, 'flash' technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. Society...
53) Dot
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In her fascination with technology, a confident and spunky girl pays little attention to the outside world before learning how to make room for real things in ways that help her make the most of her savvy technical expertise.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproduction. As average family sizes fall, the selection pressure for high-fertility genes decreases; exacerbated by the IVF industry which allows infertility-linked genes to pass into the next generation. Male fertility rates are low, for many reasons including genetics and exposure to environmental toxins....
55) Technology
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Trains that zip passengers along while hovering just above the ground, doctors that can print human body parts, and a gadget that cleans your dirty dishes while making soil for your plants. Sounds like science fiction, right? But it's all real technology! For as long as we've been around, humans have created stupendous solutions to our peskiest problems. Discover the extreme facts about technology in this kooky book." --
Author
Series
Swift and Hawk volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
An addictive new spy adventure series for Alex Rider fans who love action-packed stories and all things tech. When their families mysteriously disappear, Swift and Hawk, teen experts in AI and robotics, are recruited by the secretive Mobius Program to crack an unbreakable code. They are immediately plunged into a life-and-death rescue mission, that takes them from hidden tunnels beneath the British Museum, to the dangerous docklands of Amsterdam in...
Author
Publisher
[HarperCollins]
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
[First edition?]
Language
English
Description
"The digital revolution has transformed the world of media, upending centuries-old companies and business models. Now, it is restructuring every business, every job, and every sector of society. Yet the biggest changes are still ahead. To survive..."--
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Free Press paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
60) Cloneward bound
Author
Series
Clone chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After his clone escapes to Hollywood and becomes an actor, Fisher Bas goes on a school trip to get him back before their secret is discovered"--
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