Tech Revolutions - Roebuck | 2025 Spring Research Paper

Modern Tech Revolutions

Information (Internet, Social Media, AI...)

Internet
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Social Media
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Times Topics: Social Media
An aggregated collection of New York Times news stories and opinion pieces about social media and autonomous technology.

The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
Call Number: 302.23 .F37

Publication Date: 2022

Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Extremely Online: the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet by Taylor Lorenz
Call Number: 302.231 .L57

Publication Date: 2023

Online social and economic transformations created a digital dynamic so unappreciated and insurgent that it ultimately created new approaches to work, entertainment, fame, and ambition in the 21st century. Extremely Online is the inside, untold story of what we have done to the internet, and what it has done to us.
Genius Makers: the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world by Cade Metz
Call Number: 006.3092 .M28

Publication Date: 2021

Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question: How far will we let it go?
The Googlization of Everything: (and why we should worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Call Number: 338.7 .V13

Publication Date: 2011

In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and assesses Google's global impact.
Opinions Throughout History by Micah Issit (Editor)
Call Number: 302.23 .W91 REF.

Publication Date: 2019

In-depth, single volumes that follow the debate, or path, to a decision on a controversial topic as it evolved throughout history. Each volume offers a wide range of opinion essays and editorials, speeches, and journal articles and expert analysis.
Privacy Rights in the Digital Age by Christopher Anglim (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2016

This encyclopedia discusses the practical, political, psychological, and philosophical challenges we face as technological advances have changed the landscape of traditional notions of privacy.

Production (Robots, 3D Production, AI,...)

Artificial Intelligence
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Drones and Uncrewed Security Robots
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Times Topics: Artificial Intelligence
An aggregated collection of New York Times news stories and opinion pieces around artificial intelligence.

Changing Lives Through Robotics by Don Nardo
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2020

This volume examines how robots do many jobs faster and more efficiently than people can—and in some cases can accomplish tasks that humans cannot.
Devices of the Soul: battling for our selves in an age of machines by Steve Talbott
Call Number: 303.48 .T14

Publication Date: 2007

Author Steve Talbott, software programmer and technical writer turned researcher and editor for The Nature Institute, challenges us to step back and take an objective look at the technology driving our lives
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence by Philip L. Frana (Editor); Michael J. Klein (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

Publication Date: 2021

This authoritative reference work will provide readers with a complete overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including its historic development and current status, existing and projected AI applications, and present and potential future impact on the United States and the world.
Future Tense: how we made artificial intelligence -- and how it will change everything by Martha Brockenbrough
Call Number: 006.3 .B75

Publication Date: 2024

Explores AI's effects on education, health care, work, politics, international relations, war, and even romance. It's essential reading for everyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence got here, how we can expect it to change the world
Re-Engineering Humanity by Brett Frischmann; Evan Selinger
Call Number: 303.48 .F73R2

Publication Date: 2018

Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people.