Computers, Media & Techgnosis

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game.

An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of todays unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control.

Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

From the bestselling author of The Organized Mind, the must-have book about how to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload.

Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life with new, technologically advanced, more efficient methods.

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.