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21) Gameheadz
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Since the first Pong machine was launched three decades ago, computer games have evolved to become the world's second-largest entertainment industry, after music. This fascinating program profiles the visionaries, mavericks, and renegades of this addictive multibillion-dollar industry. Interviews with Nolan Bushnell, Ralph Baer, and others illustrate the innovation and creativity that went into the creation of Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Donkey...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its...
Author
Language
English
Description
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement-precision-in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A ten-episode collection of The Jetsons' third and final season. George, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife, as well as Astro, Rosie, Mr. Spacely (all voiced by the original cast) are all back for a final go-round of futuristic endeavors. The season starts off with a bang as George goes up against the mobsters of tomorrow thanks to Elroy, and gets arrested for his efforts, then Elroy accidentally evolves Astro into super-genius, while Judy...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
James Burke looks at the relationships between ideas and inventions many of which are related in unsuspected ways. The big spin: The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to the search for Helen of Troy, 17th century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection. Bright ideas: A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors, clock springs, and the Hubbell telescope. Making waves: Hairdressers,...
27) Gamer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Kable is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent Slayers. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned, and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game, free his family, regain his identity, and save mankind from this ruthless technology.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through the major "progress traps" facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment. Featuring powerful arguments from such visionaries...
29) Space cowboys
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
They had trained body and mind for America's leap into space. But when the moment came, they were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come and this time it's all theirs. These old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates
“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his...
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates
“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his...
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Language
English
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Description
"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...
33) Last sentinel
Language
English
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Description
Set in the near future, a skeleton crew of soldiers is stranded at sea on an abandoned military outpost awaiting the arrival of reinforcements or an enemy invasion, whichever comes first.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the perspective of space, this program traces mankind's journey from hunter-gatherer to dominant global species. With mind-bending data and CGI, the program shows how we have transformed our planet and produced a world of extraordinary complexity.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's the most overlooked commodity in the world: sand is in every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip. Sand shelters us, connects us, and inspires us. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. Beiser shares the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it-- and sometimes, even kill...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Imagine it is the seventh century. As most of Europe continues its descent into a long period of intellectually dormancy, a quiet yet powerful academic revolution is erupting in another corner of the world. Over the next centuries, the geniuses of Muslim society will thrust the boundaries of knowledge forward to such a degree that their innovations still shape civilizations to this day. The staggering achievements of these men and women influenced...
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature — issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic — was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
The director of MIT's Media Lab and a contributor to "Wired" present a set of working principles for adapting and thriving in the face of the twenty-first century's rapidly changing and unpredictable digital environments.
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today. The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla...
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy, and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!
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