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The Narrowing of Minds

The Narrowing of Minds

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Need for a Different Worldview

The Need for a Different Worldview

From: Techno-Fix

The Need for A Different Worldview suggests that a shift is needed to a different view of reality, one that is based on the fact of interconnectedness rather than the illusion of separateness, a … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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The Parent’s Role
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The Parent’s Role

From: Childhood Unplugged

In this chapter, Martinko explains the importance of parents modeling the screen habits they’d like their children to adopt. Martinko discusses various parenting styles and outlines their … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Politics of Smart Cities
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The Politics of Smart Cities

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: part 10 explores the politics of smart cities. Topics discussed include politics, think tanks, Privacy Legislation Reform, Regulatory Procedures, Data Governance, … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses

The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses

From: Techno-Fix

The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … ; 38 $3.80 Add
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The Power of sound

The Power of sound

History and Biology

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family Laws
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The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family Laws

Part Two — Provincial Legislation: Assisted Human Reproduction and the Changing Definitions of Family

From: Fertility

In The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family Laws McTeer examines how the legislatures across Canada developed surprisingly similar rules for parentage in situations of assisted … 47 $4.70 Add
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The Pull

The Pull

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Quagmire of Mobility Tech
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The Quagmire of Mobility Tech

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 6 explores urban mobility. Topics discussed include electrification, transportation, bike-share programs, walkability, the use of public space, autonomous … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Shift

The Shift

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based Policing
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The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based Policing

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 8 explores data-based policing. Topics discussed include facial recognition, surveillance networks., data-intensive policing technologies, and algorithms. 17 $1.70 Add
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The State of Our Groundwater

The State of Our Groundwater

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. 17 $1.70 Add
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The Story of Alpha

The Story of Alpha

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. 16 $1.60 Add
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The Tipping point

The Tipping point

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

There are other alterations in behavior that don’t quite qualify as illness, but ones we should also be watching: Of note are increases in self-orientation and self-concern. From … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies

The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies

From: Techno-Fix

The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies discusses five topics related to the widespread belief in the inevitability of technological change: the myth of value-neutrality, the technological … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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The Utopianism of Smart City Megaprojects
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The Utopianism of Smart City Megaprojects

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 9 explores megaprojects. Topics discussed include profits, the rise of entrepreneurial urbanization,’ the quasi-privatized new cities, and the examples of … 11 $1.10 Add