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"We're all cyborgs. It's true! We use it every day in all aspects of our lives -- but that's not a bad thing! The problem is when we let it take over our lives. This book will help kids and grownups alike reflect on their relationships with technology and learn to embrace the benefits of being unplugged."--Back cover.
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In this book the author offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
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"In Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience-birth, food, sex, and death--Kleeman examines the people who are driving some truly amazing (and perhaps worrying) innovations. We are on the brink of seismic changes in the ways we live and die, from babies grown...
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Grant Jeffery will reveal how secret spy satellites now listen in on every phone call you make, how powerful supercomputers are building secret files that contain everything on everyone, from age to the last groceries bought, and more.
"Insightful, scriptural and brilliant in his research and communication."--Cutting Edge
"A fascinating journey through the modern technologies and government activities that are paving the way towards the New World...
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Coding is all around us in the real world if you know where to look. This informative book shows young readers how machines such as scanners at the grocery store use coding, and how they connect to databases for inventory and for payment. Easy-to-follow text breaks down "IF, THEN" statements and other rules of coding that make things such as light sensors on street lights and 3-D printers work. --
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We have entered the age of peep culture, a tell-al, show-all, know-all phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, and even humanity. In the age of peep, core values and rights we once took for granteed are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.
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In his previous books, A Scientist at the Seashore and Meditations at Sunset, James Trefil used common place settings in the natural world as a point of departure for probing the mysteries of nature. In A SCIENTIST IN THE CITY, Trefil takes the opposite tack, looking at the quintessential man-made environment of the city as a way of examining the forces that define our world. What does the heating system of a building or the construction of a bridge...