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  • Deceitful Media

    Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test

    by Simone Natale ...
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of ordinary life. From voice assistants like Siri to natural language processors, AI technologies use cultural biases and modern psychology to fit ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Museums and the History of Computing

    Objects, Narratives and Practice

    Edited by Simone Natale, Petrina Foti, Ross Parry ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology
    Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organizations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping ‘digital heritage’: the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology.Focusing on digital technologies as objects and practices that museums collect, exhibit, and preserve for the future, this book highlights how and why museums play a crucial role in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Believing in Bits

    Digital Media and the Supernatural

    Edited by Simone Natale, Diana Pasulka ...
    Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internetâs capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Supernatural Entertainments

    Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture

    by Simone Natale ...
    In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed.Starting with the story of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi, Simone Natale ...
    In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal service, the rise of the mass-circulation press, and the emergence of the railway dramatically changed the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    A Guide for Thinking Humans

    by Melanie Mitchell ...
    **“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable.” —The New York TimesA leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.**No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    by Erik J. Larson ...
    **“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.” —John Horgan“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.” —Peter Thiel**Ever since Alan Turing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Experiencing the Next World Now

    by Michael Grosso, Ph.D. ...
    From the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning report on the evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the world is nothing when compared to actual experience with the place beyond. This book takes the reader to the next level -- and offers a more personal kind of journey. If there is a "next world," it must be nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Life on the Screen

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Psychic Photography: The Visual Proof

    by Hans Holzer ...
    Series Book 1 - True Encounters with the World Beyond
    Professor Hans Holzer carefully examines historic photographic evidence of ghosts and paranormal activity, explaining which images contain convincing proof and which may be trickeryFor more than a century, psychic researchers have amassed a body of photographic evidence of the afterlife. Indeed, according to professor Hans Holzer, photography gives us one of the greatest tools in documenting souls ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Jeepers Creepers

    Canadian Accounts of Weird Events and Experiences

    by John Robert Colombo ...
    Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable. All of them have been reported to John Robert Colombo, Canada's Master Gatherer of the Arcane, by men and women from various parts of the country, and they're published here in the words of the informants themselves, ... Read more

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  • Not God

    A History of Alcoholics Anonymous

    by Ernest Kurtz ...
    A fascinating account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures.The most complete history of A.A. ever written, this book is a fast-moving and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics ... Read more

    $14.99 USD