The Unrelenting Machine

Author : Eddie Crooks
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471637778
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unrelenting Machine written by Eddie Crooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the developments in health and safety law from the Industrial Revolution up to the modern day approach derived from risk assessment. The book records the part played by the Factory Inspectors and others in their endeavours to provide adequate protection to workers in the workplace. The history of exposure to asbestos is also covered.

Author : Stephen P. Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926579
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minding the Machine written by Stephen P. Rice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077883
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Spiritual Machines written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

Author : Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134719779
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times of the Technoculture written by Kevin Robins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century. The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

Author : Tim Mulgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856170
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy for an Ending World written by Tim Mulgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment, which takes the form of a challenging possible future: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces unavoidable but not immediate extinction. He presents imaginary discussions, within this slowly ending world, of such topics as the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe.

Author : Dan Fleming
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441115544
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media, Masculinities, and the Machine written by Dan Fleming and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture, the authors propose a new theoretical framework for understanding mediated masculinities.

Author : John Triptych
Publisher : J Triptych Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shards of Eternity written by John Triptych and published by J Triptych Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vengeance is a cold dish, and space is the best place to serve it. Betrayed by fellow pirates, the Nepenthe is heavily damaged and trapped in hostile territory. The practical thing to do is attempt an escape back to the neutral zones, where her crew can lick their wounds and count themselves lucky to fight another day. But their stalwart captain has other plans. He knows that if they let the renegades go, they stand to lose their reputation as the most fearsome raider outfit in known space. As the crew plans an elaborate revenge, they soon realize the true stakes revolve around a fabled lost artifact, one that could determine the fate of an entire star cluster.

Author : John T. Haworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134531966
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Leisure written by John T. Haworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, economic development and changes in social environments have put the relationships between work, leisure, social structure and quality of life under the spotlight. Profound transformations in the nature and organization of work are occurring, with potentially far-reaching social and economic consequences. Increasingly, organizations demand greater flexibility from their workforces and are introducing new technologies and practices in response to global competitive pressures. At the same time many employees are experiencing long working hours, increasing workloads and job insecurity, along with the challenge of balancing work and domestic responsibilities. These changes threaten long-term gain in leisure time while, simultaneously, the leisure environment is also changing radically, as we see increasing commercialization and professionalization of leisure services and experiences, the influence of the Internet, the rise of gambling and the decline of community-based activity. Exploring all of these issues, this book brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts in a wide range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being. Each author takes stock of the current position, identifies core practical and theoretical issues and discusses possible future trends in order to provide an invaluable resource for all policy-makers, educators, employers and researchers in the field.

Author : Jeremy Naydler
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912230143
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Machine written by Jeremy Naydler and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary life is so deeply reliant upon digital technology that the computer has come to dominate almost every aspect of our culture. What is the philosophical and spiritual significance of this dependence on electronic technology, both for our relationship to nature and for the future of humanity? And, what processes in human perception and awareness have produced the situation we find ourselves in? As Jeremy Naydler elucidates in this penetrating study, we cannot understand the emergence of the computer without seeing it within the wider context of the evolution of human consciousness, which has taken place over millennia. Modern consciousness, he shows, has evolved in conjunction with the development of machines and under their intensifying shadow. The computer was the product of a long historical development, culminating in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. It was during this period that the first mechanical calculators were invented and the project to create more complex ‘thinking machines’ began in earnest. But the seeds were sown many hundreds of years earlier, deep in antiquity. Naydler paints a vast panorama depicting human development and the emergence of electronic technology. His painstaking research illuminates an urgent question that concerns every living person today: What does it mean to be human and what, if anything, distinguishes us from machines?

Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666970X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demon in the Machine written by Paul Davies and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics World Book of the Year A Financial Times, Sunday Times, and Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year What is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question, for life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. Huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery. In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name; it is a domain where biology, computing, logic, chemistry, quantum physics, and nanotechnology intersect. At the heart of these diverse fields, Davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity which has the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and force us to fundamentally reconsider what it means to be alive—even illuminating the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe. From life’s murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine journeys across an astounding landscape of cutting-edge science. Weaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, Davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window onto the secret of life itself.