Download or read book Ghosts Spirits Computers and World Machines written by Gene O'Neill and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without doubt Gene O'Neill is the best kept secret in horror fiction. He conjures wonders and heartache with ease, painting pictures of the city as few of us ever get to see it. With stories that span genres and slip between the cracks of fantasy and horror sit back and enjoy the ride as Gene takes you on a very special sight-seeing tour through his city -- forget the usual tourist traps of Golden Gate, Pier 69, and Alcatraz, the streets waiting for you are paved with prostitutes, murder, and miracles...
Download or read book The Vertical Plane written by Ken Webster and published by Iris Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.
Download or read book Ghost Work written by Mary L. Gray and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A startling exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and how to bring it out of the shadows. Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming--one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri unveil how the services we use from companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast human labor force that is kept deliberately concealed. The people who do 'ghost work' make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech, on-demand piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, transcribing audio, confirming identities, captioning video, and much more. The shameful truth is that no labor laws protect them or even acknowledge their existence. They often earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked in this 'ghost economy,' and that number is growing every day. In this unprecedented investigation, Gray and Suri make the case that robots will never completely eliminate 'ghost work' and the unchecked quest for artificial intelligence could spark catastrophic work conditions if not stopped in its tracks. Ultimately, they show how this essential type of work can create opportunity--rather than misery--for those who do it."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book The machine and the ghost written by Sas Mays and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture’s continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists’ discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging from contemporary art to cultural theory. Produced with renowned specialists within the field, including the artist Susan Hiller and the writer Marina Warner, the book combines the historical with the contemporary in exploring how the visual culture of paranormal phenomena continues to haunt our imaginations. Informed by history and the visual tradition of spiritualism and psychical research, the collection is very much concerned to site that tradition within our contemporary concerns, such as landscape and environment, and recent technological developments. Aimed at a broad academic and cultural audience, the collection will appeal to all academic levels in addition to those interested in art and culture more widely.
Download or read book The Year s Best Fantasy and Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Everything Ghost Hunting Book written by Melissa Martin Ellis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to track and record paranormal activity! Ectoplasm...cold spots...orbs...everyone loves a real-life ghost story! Ghosthunter Melissa Martin Ellis takes you on an exciting journey into the supernatural world of haunted sites, restless souls, and messages from beyond the grave. You'll learn about the most up-to-date technology, such as motion sensors and highly sensitive digital cameras, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves, including: Poltergeists Electronic-voice phenomena (EVP) Possession Photo anomalies Seances and voodoo rituals With expert advice on everything from picking a haunted location to setting up cameras and dealing with unwieldy ghosts, The Everything Ghost Hunting Book, 2nd Edition shows you how today's investigators use the tools of modern science to study a wide range of paranormal activity.
Download or read book Ghosts Spirits and Psychics written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating work provides a complete overview of paranormal phenomena, including the beliefs, attitudes, and notable figures who have attempted to explain, defend, or debunk the mysteries behind the unknown. Recent interest in the paranormal as pop culture fodder belies its historical status as an important subject of cultural, philosophical, and scientific significance. This book traces the trajectory of paranormal studies from its early role as a serious academic and scientific topic studied by mainstream scientists and eminent scholars to its current popularity in books, film, and TV. This compelling reference work details the experiences, encounters, and ideas that make up this controversial field of study. The contributed entries examine the broad phenomena of the paranormal, addressing the history of scientific investigations along with its contemporary media depictions to illustrate the evolution of cultural attitudes about the paranormal. A selection of primary documents provides real-life accounts and contributions from noted experts that explore the full scope of themes from spiritualism to poltergeists to astrology. Accompanying images, timelines, quotations, and sidebars make the content come to life and encourage alternative explanations of these events.
Download or read book The Blue Nowhere written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop, delivers a masterful thriller about a psychotic computer hacker/killer. Set in Silicon Valley, full of stunning—and fact-based—technical details, The Blue Nowhere is Deaver for the 21st Century. His code name is Phate—a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their disparate talents to catch a brilliant and merciless killer.
Download or read book Spirits From The Electronic Realm written by Nathan Toulane and published by Velvet. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eerie subject of Electronic Voice Phenomenon and Spiricom is the focus for Stephen Reid. Fascinated by its scientific history, he builds a machine to contact ghosts and journeys to its darkest realms. Nevertheless, are these paranormal beings benevolent, or are they evil? Hell-bent on destroying him and all he holds dear. The novel takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of uncertainty until a crescendo of blood-chilling actions culminates in a terrifying climax.
Download or read book Fiction as Method written by Jon K Shaw and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the world through the eyes of a search engine, if only for a millisecond; throw the workings of power into sharper relief by any media necessary; reveal access points to other worlds within our own. In the anthology Fiction as Method, a mixture of new and established names in the fields of contemporary art, media theory, philosophy, and speculative fiction explore the diverse ways fiction manifests, and provide insights into subjects ranging from the hive mind of the art collective 0rphan Drift to the protocols of online self-presentation. With an extended introduction by the editors, the book invites reflection on how fictions proliferate, take on flesh, and are carried by a wide variety of mediums—including, but not limited to, the written word. In each case, fiction is bound up with the production and modulation of desire, the enfolding of matter and meaning, and the blending of practices that cast the existing world in a new light with those that participate in the creation of new openings of the possible. Contributors Justin Barton, Delphi Carstens & Mer Roberts, Tim Etchells, Matthew Fuller, David Garcia, Dora García, M. John Harrison, Simon O'Sullivan, Erica Scourti, Jon K Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison
Download or read book Spirits in the Material World written by Gilbert G. Germain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology provocatively argues that technology is best understood as an otherworldly or spiritual force. Under its influence, humans are fast becoming spirit-like creatures, beings who assume their bodies are incidental to what it means to be human and the "real world" an accidental quality of the human condition. Technology authorizes such an understanding and legitimates a manner of action that obscures the centrality of embodiment and its significance. Gil Germain challenges many of the assumptions underpinning the technological worldview through a reading of leading contemporary theorists who have addressed the interconnection between technology and disembodiment. The book both reveals and contests the multifarious ways in which technology's spiritual thrust is manifested in contemporary thought and practice. While respecting technology's hold on modernity and its predisposition toward disembodiment, Germain gives important reasons why this inclination toward spiritizaiion ought to be resisted and what shape this resistance must take if it is to be meaningful. Gil Germain is associate professor of political studies at the University of Prince Edward Book jacket.
Download or read book The Girl with the Ghost Machine written by Lauren DeStefano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and neglected the living, and Emmaline is tired of feeling forgotten. Nothing good has come from building the ghost machine, and Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work...or destroy it forever.
Download or read book Ghosts Are Real written by Jack Tanner and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists once laughed at people who believed in invisible waves. Then the theory of electromagnetism demonstrated that we are immersed in an ocean of invisible waves. Scientist sneered at people who believed in invisible energies. Now scientists say that 95% of the universe is made of dark energy and dark matter that are wholly invisible. It won't be long until scientists have accepted the reality of ghosts. Imagine a soul phone for contacting the dead, such as Thomas Edison believed possible. Would it be the most popular invention ever? Whom would you call? - famous figures from history, saints and prophets, or your dear departed ones? Or would you try to get through to God himself, and hope you didn't get a crackly connection? Atheists always get "No Signal."
Download or read book Ghost Their Machines written by John Potts and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second issue of the online journal Scan. It examines the curious field occupied by both technology and magic. This is an inter-disciplinary field, drawing on recent work in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and the study of media and technology. Despite their disparate theoretical orientations, these papers all investigate the co-existence of very old forms of thought - belief in magic, ghosts, spirits - with contemporary practices. Considers various technologies from electric lights to robot dogs, miniature theatres, computer programs, 19th century photography and even writing. The focus is on the ways that cultures perform various rituals and practices, resulting in the integration of human astonishment into mainstream consciousness.
Download or read book Collaborative Intelligence written by Anthony Forsyth and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the principles of humanistic management, the present volume intends to describe the steps to be taken to transform a company into a social organization, be it private or public. The book consists of three parts, which are preceded by an introduction to the key concepts of Management 2.0. Part I describes the five steps which are necessary for a strategic and organizational transformation, while Part II shows how the function of HRM must change to adapt management and development processes to the dynamics of collaborative work. Part III presents the most important principles and values on which new behaviors, skills, and styles of leadership 2.0 should be based. Each chapter is supplemented with case studies from a number of managers, which evinces that the processes described are feasible in Italy and have already been implemented by far-sighted employers who were able to foretell change.
Download or read book The Ghost in the Machine written by Arthur Koestler and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the human impulse towards self-destruction suggests that in the course of human evolution, a pathological split between emotion and reason developed
Download or read book The Ghost written by Lloyd Sparks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young scientist and his friends are introduced to the frightening array of alternate universes when he creates a device that can open a doorway between dimensions. He learns that very small events can change how the world operates in very powerful and terrifying ways. Lost in a wilderness of parallel worlds and on the verge of despair, he finally discovers the key to finding his way home. When he finally makes it back, he vows to never leave the safety and comfort of his home universe again. He soon discovers, however, that the world of the human brain can be just as scary when he creates a machine that can read minds. After peering into the private thoughts and deepest longings of his close friends, he decides to destroy his creation only to discover how badly he needs it to fight the most horrifying menace of all-the ghost of a dead evil genius alive in cyberspace.
