In the Bubble
Title | In the Bubble PDF eBook |
Author | John Thackara |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2006-02-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0262701154 |
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
The Bubble Book
Title | The Bubble Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Ember |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2020-07-29 |
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The Bubble Book was written to introduce and excite my preschool classroom about Belly Breaths through a fun, interactive experience. We use these Belly Breaths as a tool to get our bodies calm and settled after a rough moment on the playground, before nap time, or just to get feeling good again. Belly Breaths are an important first step towards emotion regulation and mindfulness. They bring more oxygen to the brain so we can process what is happening and think more clearly. I use this book to simply introduce the term "Belly Breaths" to my kiddos in a fun and engaging activity. Then, when the time comes, I can say, "Remember the Belly Breaths? Let's give them a try!"
The Acoustic Bubble
Title | The Acoustic Bubble PDF eBook |
Author | T. G. Leighton |
Publisher | Academic Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1997-06-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780124419216 |
The wide range of important applications concerning the acoustic interactions of bubbles necessitates a book of this form which, utilising analogy, description, and formulation, gives a 'physical feel' for the phenomena, whilst also providing thoroughly for mathematically adept readers. The first half of the book introduces and draws together acoustics, cavitation nucleation and associated fluid dynamics, to examine the free oscillations of bubbles and the resulting acoustic emissions. In the second half, the behaviour and consequences of bubbles in externally-applied acoustic fields is discussed in detail, including the cavitational aspects of erosion and bioeffects. Throughout the book topics drawn from a variety of disciplines, and include: . Bubble and cavitation detection . Bioeffects of clinical ultrasound . Oceanic bubble populations . Sonochemistry . Ultrasonic degassing . Weather sensing There is an extensive bibliography.
The Budget of the Bubble Family
Title | The Budget of the Bubble Family PDF eBook |
Author | Lytton Bulwer |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2024-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 336873668X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
The Budget of the Bubble Family
Title | The Budget of the Bubble Family PDF eBook |
Author | afterwards BULWER LYTTON BULWER (Baroness Lytton., Rosina Doyle) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1840 |
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The Budget of the Bubble Family
Title | The Budget of the Bubble Family PDF eBook |
Author | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1840 |
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The Bubble Star
Title | The Bubble Star PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley-Anne Bourne |
Publisher | The Porcupine's Quill |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780889841994 |
The characters, setting and atmosphere of "The Bubble Star" are both rural (northern Ontario) and urban (Toronto). The novel focuses primarily on women -- three sisters -- and their relationships with each other and with men. We have marriage, we have affairs, we have a bit of sex, including a scene in an upscale bamboo furniture boutique. One of the secondary characters is a gay male. A lesbian couple appears, and one of the women is married to a professor who is having an affair with one of the sisters working in retail. When asked by Dale Zieroth (editor of "Event" magazine) what she feared most about the publication of "The Bubble Star," Lesley replied, That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' When Zieroth asked her what she hoped for the most from this novel, she answered That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' Bourne goes on to say that she expects her audience will be anyone who reads "The New Yorker," anyone who works in retail (because the novel has central characters who work in retail), or anyone who watches the Shopping Channel.