This book examines the current state of the technologically-caused unemployed, and attempts to answer the question of how to proceed into an era beyond technological unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the most salient issues, the experts collected in this work present their own novel visions of the future and offer suggestions for adapting to a more symbiotic economic relationship with…
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.This book draws on medical sociology and science and …
1. Introduction -- 2. Refiguring Techniques: Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility in Visual-digital Research -- 3. Drone Bodies: Sensual Amalgamations of the Vertical -- 4. For a Non-Linear Visual Ethnography: Reflections on the Use of i-docs as a Tool for Scientific Research -- 5. Empathetic Visuality: Go-Pros and the Video Trace -- 6. Careful Surveillance at …
1. Maps and Patents -- 2. Pinpointing Location -- 3. Showing the Way -- 4. Folding, Unfolding -- 5. World Views -- 6. Global Affairs -- 7. Current Events -- Appendix: How to Find a Patent.This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In thi…
Prologue, Part 1. Requiem for Plato and the Gods -- Prologue, Part 2. The Postmodern Context -- Chapter 1. The Science of Society -- Chapter 2. What about the Gene and What about the Brain? -- Chapter 3. The Social Lives of Minds and Brains -- Chapter 4. Thinking Machines -- Chapter 5. God and Society -- Chapter 6. The Social Construction of Mathematics -- Chapter 7. What Can a Sociologist Say …