When the World Wide Web first transformed daily life, users relied on basic instincts to navigate its open and straightforward pages. "Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web" adapts traditional evaluation criteria for today's complex internet, providing the essential tools needed to audit modern digital content, combat misinformation, and safely navigate the rise of AI-generated text.

Uploaded September 2026

For centuries, society viewed mechanical failures as mere material accidents—unexpected disruptions to an otherwise smoothly running world. "The Broken Machine" reveals how these technological breakdowns were actually powerful political mirrors used to define human worth, social order, and who truly belonged in modern Western democracies.

Uploaded September 2026

For decades, global sustainability relied on a reactive approach—waiting for ecological disasters to strike and watching how society scrambled to adapt. Technology policy and its impact on green governance and sustainability reveals the proactive policy frameworks and strategic corporate innovations that are finally driving the shift toward a resilient, low-carbon economy.

Uploaded September 2026

Emerging technologies offer revolutionary benefits for humanity and the planet, but they also carry the potential for immense harm if left unchecked. To navigate these high stakes, technology futurist Jamie Metzl uses a multidisciplinary approach to forecast the future and bridge the gap between technological progress and ethical management.

Uploaded September 2026

This textbook serves as an educational resource for students and practicing engineers, covering the fundamentals of probabilistic, optimum, and high-performance design. Using easy, visual, and applied methods, it integrates finite element analysis via ANSYS and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms alongside practical solved examples and tutorials.

Uploaded September 2026

Building Innovation and Industrial Ecosystems, edited by Elisabeth Reynolds, outlines how the United States can secure national and economic prosperity by investing in six priority technologies. The book focuses on critical minerals, semiconductors, biomanufacturing, quantum computing, drones, and advanced manufacturing to build resilient ecosystems amid shifting geopolitical lines and supply chains.

Uploaded September 2026

Across Africa, the adoption of cutting-edge innovations—including artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, and drones—is transforming daily life and strengthening community resilience. This book outlines how these emerging technologies help nations bypass longstanding systemic flaws to unlock the continent's full economic and socioeconomic potential.

Uploaded September 2026

In Connection, Dan Turello challenges the view of technology as a purely dehumanizing force, arguing instead that it has historically enabled and deepened human culture, art, and philosophy. By placing historical figures like Dante and St. Francis of Assisi in conversation with contemporary thinkers, the book advocates for self-awareness and community to safeguard human creativity in the age of AI.

Uploaded September 2026

Today, the widespread use of artificial intelligence is radically changing every aspect of our lives. The book examines the impact that emerging AI technologies are having on agriculture, industry, and tourism, with a particular focus on the moral implications of their use. In this way, the book offers readers an overview of the main ethical issues raised by the use of intelligent systems in these sectors and so aims to answer a twofold question: How are sectors such as agriculture, industry, and tourism being reshaped by AI technologies? And what ethical challenges do these technologies pose in these fields and, more broadly, in our society?

Uploaded September 2026

Placing theories of employment in dialectical conjunction with the concrete operations of computing, 100% Utilization explores the consequences of leveraging processing power up to its limits for a culture that seemingly relies upon automation as much as human labor.

Uploaded September 2026