Technology Matters : Questions to Live With

By David E. Nye
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We use technology to shape our world, yet we think little about the choices we are making. In Technology Matters, Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies. He asks: Can we define technology? Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable or unpredictable? (Why do experts often fail to get it right?)? How do historians understand it? Are we using modern technology to create cultural uniformity, or diversity? To create abundance, or an ecological crisis? To destroy jobs or create new opportunities? Should "the market" choose our technologies? Do advanced technologies make us more secure, or escalate dangers? Does ubiquitous technology expand our mental horizons, or encapsulate us in artifice?

These large questions may have no final answers yet, but we need to wrestle with them—to live them, so that we may, as Rilke puts it, "live along some distant day into the answers."
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別鬧了 , 費曼先生 : 科學頑童的故事 (Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character)

費曼 (Richard Feynman) 著
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費曼一生幽默機智，幾近頑童的行止，與其在理論物理方面的成就齊名。……全書沒有難懂的科學知識，在一件件新鮮事背後，隱然透露著人性最接近自然的本質。

費曼先生得過諾貝爾獎，是近代最偉大的理論科學家之一。他是加州理工學院物理系教授，任教約四十年。三十年代在普林斯頓大學畢業後，隨即被徵召加入製造原子彈的曼哈坦計畫。費曼先生生性好奇，在嚴密的保安系統監控之下，他以破解安全鎖自娛。取得機密資料以後，留下字條告誡政府小心安全。而他的鮮事也傳頌一時。他愛坐在上空酒吧內做科學研究，當那酒吧以妨礙風化遭到取締時，他上法庭辯護。他的森巴鼓造詣很高，巴西嘉年華會需要領隊貴賓，本來預定的大明星珍那露露布麗姬妲缺席，臨時由費曼先生取代，他引以自豪。

他一向特立獨行，以不負責聞名。領了諾貝爾獎之後，同事維斯可夫和他打賭十元費曼先生會坐上某一領導位置，但費曼先生在一九七六年拿到那十元。事實上，費曼先生幾乎從不參與加州理工學院內，如：經費、升等、設備等任何行政工作。別人可能看他自私。但對他，這是他保衛自己創造自由的方式。他甚至連續五年努力辭去美國國家科學院院士的榮譽位置，因為選舉其它院士的責任頗困擾他。而他也可能是歷史上唯一被按摩院請去畫裸體畫，在酒吧廁所內與醉鬼大打出手的科學家。他曾經跟愛因斯坦和波耳等大師討論物理問題，也曾在賭城中與職業賭徒研究輸贏的機率！

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The Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists: The Most Important Scientists from Ancient Greece to the Present Day

Introduction by John Gribbin
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Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded to the long list of geniuses that came before him. The history of science is the story of great discoveries, flashes of intuition that have changed the way people see the world, hard work and arduous calculation in the laboratory. The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists is a celebration of the lives and work of the men and women who have changed the way we look at the world, the universe, and ourselves. Includes contributions from top name scientists and writers such James Gleick on Richard Feynman; Michio Kaky on Einstein and Sir Harold Kroton on the Fulleriene (for which he won an Nobel Prize). The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists is introduced by John Gribbin. He is the author of nearly 100 popular science books …
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潮平岸闊 : 高錕自述

高錕 著
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提起高錕教授，即時會想起他的光纖、寬頻通訊等科學技術上的成就。本書是作者的七十自述，除了讓讀者一覽他闖蕩世界科技文明、周遊列國的廣闊人生之外，還與讀者分享他對人、對世界的開闊視野。“潮平岸闊”既可以用來形容今天的寬頻傳送，何嘗不是作者生命形態的最佳寫照。《潮平岸闊─高錕自述》裡的高錕，不止“光纖之父”一面。本書共十五章，首章先寫與廝守四十多年的夫人美芸相識相遇，及後共結連理的生活細節，隨之倒敘童年往事，以及鮮有詳細披露的留學生活。

這是作者的巧心安排：科技事業與家庭兼重，以“邂逅”居全書之首，見科技學者對人文、人倫價值之肯定。第六、七、八三章詳細交代光纖發明、改良、大量生產的過程。這方面的成功令他在創新科技事業上闖出一個又一個高峰。第九至十二章是光纖之外的社會貢獻，以及平凡而溫馨豐富的家庭生活。出掌中大，是重投華人世界，尋根問源。最後三章是回顧過去、展望未來的宏觀陳述。
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Cultural Intelligence : Individual Interactions Across Cultures

By P. Christopher Earley, Soon Ang
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In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves quickly in new cultures. Effective strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing businesses.
Current theories in management and psychology do not provide adequate frameworks to explain the successes or failures of people working and managing in foreign cultures. In this book, the authors develop the idea of cultural intelligence and examine its three essential facets: cognition, the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues; motivation, the desire and ability to engage others; and behavior, the capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation.
In their presentation of this new conceptual framework, the authors provide a critical review of the existing literature. They explore the fundamental nature of cultural intelligence and its relationship to other frameworks of intelligence.
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Creativity : When East Meets West

Edited by Sing Lau, Anna N.N. Hui, and Grace Y.C. Ng
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What actually is creativity? And what contributes to its conceptualization and development? For decades, these and other questions have fascinated researchers, educators, parents and laymen alike, and equally so in the East and West. The present collection of chapters is a continuous attempt in answering and exploring the above questions from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Readers may find some answers satisfactory, whereas others bewildering. This is in fact the reality of creativity research and education.

(Excerpt from the Preface of the book)