Top 4 Most Popular Technology eBooks

Technology eBooks allow you to get a new perspective on emerging technologies. They help you learn about the past, present, and future of technology. Here are some of the technology eBooks that you should put on your read list.

Digital Transformation - Thomas M. Siebel

In this eBook, the author discusses how the convergence of 4 modern information technology vectors is impacting society, government, and businesses. These information technology vectors are the internet of things, artificial intelligence, big data, and elastic cloud computing.

Race After Technology - Ruha Benjamin

Published on June 17, 2019, this eBook cuts through the tech-sector hype to get a clear picture of how emerging technologies may reinforce white supremacy and make social inequity to increase. The book is brilliant and written engagingly. The author guides readers into a fresh territory to ensure they understand and tackle the persistence of racial inequality.

Steven Johnson's How We Got to Now

In How We Got to Now, Steven explored the history of innovations that have happened over the centuries. He traced facets of modern life - such as eyeglass lenses, clocks, and refrigeration - from their creation by entrepreneurs, amateurs, and hobbyists to their unintended historical consequences.

Alec Ross' The Industries of the Future

This eBook explores the forces that are going to change the world in big data, coding, digital currency, genetics, and robotics. The book received positive reviews from the Financial Times, the New York Journal of Book, and Forbes.

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How Tech Has Forever Changed Dating

Have you ever had a talk with your significant other that went something along the lines of: “Don’t worry, we won’t tell anyone we met on Tinder”? While once an almost embarrassing way to meet people, dating apps have become the new norm, especially in the time of the pandemic. But this new way of dating has forever changed the way we date, and the team here at Joygeeks dug into our impressive collection of content to bring you some examples.

Dating diversity. Back before dating went online, many met partners through shared social circles, be they friends, colleagues, or co-workers. Sure, there were occasional encounters in bars or even at the grocery store, but those usually meant geographical limitations. Today, however, you can meet anyone from anywhere, no need to have a social group or location in common.

Attention spans. While diversity seems to be a notch in the plus column, the tech that enables easier dating does have some downsides too. Our attention spans are getting shorter, thanks in large part to our tech, and unfortunately this translates into less attention spent on our significant others.

Communication and courtship. Love letters, it would appear, are a thing of the past. Whereas once we placed emphasis on long-form communication; letters, phone calls, long conversations, etc, many of us now communicate through texts, or sometimes just through memes. What effect this has on our dating, however, is still somewhat unknown.

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How Ride Hailing May Evolve Due to Covid-19

It may come as no surprise that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are being felt across just about every industry imaginable, from air travel to manufacturing. Ride hailing is no different, and with people sheltering in place and working remotely, companies like Uber and Lyft are facing tough times.

Lyft, however, is taking the pandemic as an opportunity to expand their offerings. On March 26th the company confirmed that it initiated a pilot project which would let its drivers deliver medical supplies and meals. Such services are nothing new for the ride hailing industry, as Uber has long since been leading the charge with its UberEats service. Where Lyft differs, however, is that it has now partnered with Amazon in order to deliver packages and groceries for the e-commerce giant.

The announcement went out to drivers via email, with Lyft adding that it'll be sending out weekly notifications with "new information about driving, earning opportunities, and supporting your community."

It’s welcome news for Lyft drivers who have seen their wages plummet along with demand for rides. The precarious nature of work in the gig economy has made it difficult for many Lyft workers to seek financial assistance during the crisis, so both drivers and Lyft hope the pilot project will help ease the burden, all while providing a valuable and much needed service to the community during these difficult times.

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How Motion Recognition Will Revolutionize Education

Remember what phones were like before touch screens? We don’t either, even though it wasn’t that long ago that touch screens didn’t exist. In their earlier stages touch screens were clunky at best, and who could forget trying to push extra hard on the screen in order to recognize that anything had been pressed. Much has changed since then, thankfully. These days, touch screens are ultra fast, ultra sensitive, and they’re getting better and better at recognizing motion and gesture, which will have a tremendous effect on the world of eduction in the following ways:

It’ll help with specialized training. Some jobs require fine motor skills, right down to the very fingertips. Motion recognition can help with that training in ways we could have only dreamed of a few short decades ago.

It’ll help keep students engaged. There’s a lot to be said for hands-on learning. Textbooks were all well and good, but an interactive screen that can interpret out gestures can go a long way towards keeping students engaged and interested.

It’ll help make learning fun. A big part of keeping students engaged and interested involves entertaining them, and while in the past we didn’t always approach learning with fun and games in mind, that may have to change given the reality of the world we now live in, where every manner of device is vying for the student’s attention.

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What Will Covid-19 do to the Battery Life of Your Devices?

Stuck at home with nothing to do? You’re not alone. And while social distancing rules being enforced across the globe do allow for some walks and short ventures into the outside world, depending on your location, many of us are opting to spend much of our time in front of our various devices. With the increased use, however, we can’t help but wonder, what will happen to battery life?

One can only imagine that as our various devices get used more frequently and are charged more often, their lifespan will drastically decrease, and we’ll all be shopping for new devices as soon as the crisis is over. In the grander scheme of things, however, there’s the bigger question of what this will mean for battery life in general. Given the increased use of their devices, will consumers start demanding a longer battery lifespan for their devices? Will manufacturers be inspired to innovate the battery in ways we never even dreamed possible? Will wireless charging finally be a reality for all devices across all platforms? We’ll just have to wait and see, which is very much the case for a lot of aspects of everyday life affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. With any luck, however, despite all the difficulties, maybe some great technological innovations can come from the situation as well!

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Netflix Cutting Video Quality in an Effort to Ease Bandwidth Usage

With much of the world either in self quarantine or practicing social distancing, telecom companies around the globe are seeing a huge spike in bandwidth, and they’re struggling to keep up. Much of that bandwidth is due to Netflix streaming, which is understandable, given the fact that many people find themselves with nothing much to do other than stream their favorite shows.

To ease the burden on ISPs, Netflix has been taking steps to cut the quality of their streaming, a move designed to decrease traffic by about 25%. The move was announced in Canada shortly after it was announced in Europe, and it’s likely on its way to the US as well.

"We believe that this will provide significant relief to congested networks and will be deploying it in Canada for the next 30 days," said Ken Florance, vice president of content delivery in a statement on March 26th.

Netflix isn’t the only streaming service to reduce its video quality. CraveTV, the Bell Media streaming service that offers popular HBO and Showtime programs to Canadian subscribers has followed suit.

"Crave does plan to temporarily reduce the quality of streams on certain devices," the company said in a statement, also on March 26th.

While the measures are designed to be temporary, there’s no telling how long they’ll actually remain in effect as the Covid-19 pandemic worsens across the globe. We expect other streamers to follow suit in short order, but don’t worry, all of your favorite shows should still be available for streaming and many may not even notice the reduced quality!

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Faster 3D Printing May Soon be a Reality

3D printers have been nothing short of revolutionary for the world of rapid prototyping and production of highly specialized parts. With the cost having come down considerably within the last few years, 3D printing has also become the domain of hobbyists and enthusiasts of late. But if there’s one complaint that both consumers and industry would have about the technology, it would be its speed. In fact, while the technique renders 3D objects, 3D printers are really more like 2D printers, with the printer heads slowly building up layers of material while working on horizontal layers. The process can take hours, sometimes even days for particularly large and complex projects, but all this could be about to change thanks to a new technique demonstrated by researchers from Switzerland's Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

The new technique, while similar to existing technology in many respects, incorporates the application of tomographic techniques, the same used in x-rays and ultrasounds, that allows for rotational printing. The EPFL writes, "The system is currently capable of making two-centimeter structures with a precision of 80 micrometers, about the same as the diameter of a strand of hair. But as the team develops new devices, they should be able to build much bigger objects, potentially up to 15 centimeters." It’s exciting news for the world of 3D printing, and only a matter of time before the technology is refined, improved upon, and becomes available to the consumer market.

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