2023, ISBN: 9781399804462

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New York: Basic Books, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 24 cm, 468, appendices, notes, index, underlining on several pages, rear board weak, ink name on fr endppr, bkplate on… Mehr…

New York: Basic Books, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 24 cm, 468, appendices, notes, index, underlining on several pages, rear board weak, ink name on fr endppr, bkplate on rear endppr DJ somewhat soiled and worn. She is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, integrates her lifelong themes: the digital revolution, the evolution of capitalism, the historical emergence of psychological individuality, and the conditions for human development. Zuboff's work is the source of many concepts including 'surveillance capitalism', 'instrumentarian power', 'the division of learning in society', 'economies of action', 'the means of behavior modification', 'information civilization', 'computer-mediated work', 'automate/informate' dialectic, 'abstraction of work' & 'individualization of consumption'. Derived from a Kirkus review: The traditional corporate organization chart may go the way of the dodo as factories and offices switch to all-out computerized automation. Zuboff bases this and other findings on her ten-year study of eight companies: three pulp and/or paper manufacturers; the rest primarily service or financial institutions. Zuboff finds that computers change the relationship between first-line managers and workers, rendering the former almost redundant while providing the latter with the means to handle many decisions formerly relegated to supervisory personnel. Experienced operators can not only correct mistakes, but can also use the electronic brain to solve problems and even improve routine operations. Conflicts between supervisory and operating personnel, says Zuboff, prevent full use of automated systems. Especially eye-opening: numerous revealing quotes that lay bare the dilemmas and dislocations of automation., Basic Books, 1988, 2.5, New York: Harper Business, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, 325, [1]. Notes. Index. Minor ding to bottom of boards. Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 2014. Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001. Mims was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz. Mims was an editor at Scientific American, Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal, where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature. Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. Mims has also reported for Wired and Scientific American, and worked on various projects for the BBC, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian. Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012. Christopher Mims is a columnist who writes about technology for The Wall Street Journal's tech bureau in San Francisco. The subjects of his columns vary widely from one week to the next. He has written about bidets, brain implants, the cult of the founder, the history of technology, innovation, venture capital, robotics, batteries, energy, materials science, wireless communications, AI, data science, telepresence, microchips, logistics, IT, 3D printing and autonomous boats, trucks, cars, drones and flying taxis. Christopher joined the Journal from Quartz, where he also covered technology. He has won a Sabew award for commentary, and has written a book, "Arriving Today" on how supply chains work. Shortlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Current Events & Public Affairs. The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for granted"Arriving Today"in this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management. We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers' demand for "arriving today" gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shiftinto the world's busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazon's automated warehousesto explore how the promise of "arriving today" is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines. The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the system's vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as we hurtle toward a fully automated systemand what it will mean when we are there., Harper Business, 2021, 3, Trade Paperback. Publisher: John Murray | 2023 | Trade Paperback | 561 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism through a dazzling, original account of how technological choices have changed the course of history. From vivid stories of how the economic surplus of the Middle Ages was appropriated by an ecclesiastical elite to build cathedrals while the peasants starved, to the making of vast fortunes from digital technologies today as millions are pushed towards poverty, we see how the path of technology is determined and who influences its trajectory. To achieve the true potential of innovation, we need to ensure technology is creating new jobs and opportunities rather than marginalizing most people, through automated work and political passivity. We need to use the tremendous digital advances of the last half century to create useful and empowering tools, rather than "so-so" technologies that replace workers but fail to improve productivity, seizing back control from a small elite of hubristic, messianic tech leaders pursuing their own interests. With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for building a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the understanding and vision to reimagine and reshape the path of technology and create true shared prosperity. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0<

2023, ISBN: 9781399804462

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