Examines how the often-contradictory relationships between states, hackers and tech companies can undermine trust in cyber space, and complicate government spying operations. Even the most elite hackers use common technologies to steal state secrets...

How does AI compare to a doctor when it comes to saving lives? Doctors are under-resourced and face unprecedented levels of stress, with rising patient numbers and ever developing medical knowledge. But at the same time, they are all too human, pro...

Copyright's profound impact on the online world as we know it. This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on our online lives. It uncovers the hidden forces shaping our digital world by telling stories a...

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being. Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition softwa...

How did a small post-Soviet state become a digital and e-government powerhouse, producing world-leading tech companies and pioneering policies for remote residency? Three decades after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is a nation...

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at pres...

A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality. Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on ind...

How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age. Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum...

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...

A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War I...