On the Brink of Utopia
A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future. We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having...
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296 pages
2023-10-24 Published
The Perception Machine
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our...
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288 pages
2023-11-07 Published
Dare to Invent the Future
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence. Academics are letting Africa down. With all that we know, what...
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368 pages
2023-11-21 Published
No Heavenly Bodies
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure. Taking its title from Hannah Arendt's description of...
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256 pages
2023-11-28 Published
Prior Art
A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture. Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle...
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400 pages
2024-05-07 Published
Fulfilling the Pledge
An insightful and evidence-based assessment of our urgent need to enact labor law reform—and how to achieve it. Millions of non-union workers want unionization, but our current labor-management relations law...
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306 pages
2024-02-13 Published
The Green Power of Socialism
How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society. In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkovaexamines the relationship...
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256 pages
2024-02-20 Published
Going Big
All the crucial skills scientists need to make a professional transition into large projects and collaborations that require governance and project management. Modern science increasingly tackles ambitious projects whose size...
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144 pages
2024-03-26 Published