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License to Spill
Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
ISBN: 9780262551588
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
How everyday wetness—from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming—collides with consumers' media devices designed to stay dry.
Indigenous Currencies
Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262552530
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
The Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
Differential Privacy
ISBN: 9780262551656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
The New Lunar Society
An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
ISBN: 9780262049528
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.
Time Machines
Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262049184
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
Island Tinkerers
Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry
ISBN: 9780262549387
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 7, 2025
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer.
Intellivision
How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie ®
ISBN: 9780262549509
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.
The Connectivity of Things
Network Cultures since 1832
ISBN: 9780262550741
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.
License to Spill
Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
ISBN: 9780262551588
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
How everyday wetness—from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming—collides with consumers' media devices designed to stay dry.
Indigenous Currencies
Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262552530
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
The Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
Differential Privacy
ISBN: 9780262551656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
The New Lunar Society
An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
ISBN: 9780262049528
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.
Time Machines
Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262049184
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
Island Tinkerers
Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry
ISBN: 9780262549387
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 7, 2025
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer.
Intellivision
How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie ®
ISBN: 9780262549509
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2024
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry.
The Connectivity of Things
Network Cultures since 1832
ISBN: 9780262550741
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.