{"title":"Tom Wheeler","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Wheeler’s works explore the evolving impact of technology on society, tracing the journey from early innovations like Gutenberg's press to the complex challenges of artificial intelligence. His writing offers insightful analysis into how technological advancements reshape communication, policy, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending clarity with depth, Wheeler’s books bridge computing and education, inviting readers to consider both the promises and pitfalls of the digital age. His thoughtful perspectives make complex subjects accessible to those keen to understand technology’s role in our changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"from-gutenberg-to-google-and-on-to-ai-by-tom-wheeler-9780815740612","title":"From Gutenberg to Google and on to AI","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNetwork revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions—in communications, business, and many areas of daily life—are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call \"networks\"—the physical links that bind any society together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating book, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today. The first big network revolution was the invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century. This book, its millions of predecessors, and even such broad trends as the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the multiple scientific revolutions of the past 500 years would not have been possible without that one invention. The second revolution came with the invention of the telegraph early in the nineteenth century. Never before had people been able to communicate over long distances faster than a horse could travel. Along with the development of the world's first high-speed network—the railroad—the telegraph upended centuries of stability and literally redrew the map of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWheeler puts these past revolutions into the perspective of today, when rapid-fire changes in networking are upending the nature of work, personal privacy, education, the media, and nearly every other aspect of modern life. But he doesn't leave it there. Outlining \"What's Next,\" he describes how artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, and the need for cybersecurity are laying the foundation for a third network revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Gutenberg to Google and on to AI\u003c\/i\u003e provides an insightful look into the past and a foresight into the future, illustrating the ongoing evolution of the networks that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46816836649196,"sku":"9780815740612","price":69.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11618503482478.jpg?v=1757855775"},{"product_id":"techlash-by-tom-wheeler-9780815739937","title":"Techlash","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHailed by \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e as \"a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech\" and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e as \"a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants,\" readers will be energised by Tom Wheeler's vision of digital governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatured on Barack Obama's 11\/3\/23 list of \"What I’m Reading on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In \u003cem\u003eTechlash\u003c\/em\u003e, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st-century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technological innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWarning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial-era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised, and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Once again, Tom Wheeler makes sense out of the dizzying technological changes that often seem to initially befuddle and beset us before they come into sharper focus, a focus he brings to each page and each new idea... it sometimes takes an original thinker to make clearer the “mess” in front of us. 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