{"product_id":"the-second-use-logan-ronco-9798171983260","title":"The Second Use: Money, Machines, and What They Become","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat survives when the original purpose disappears?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graphics card built to draw images begins earning cryptocurrency on a pool table. The organization that grows around it will eventually sell computation for artificial intelligence. But following that transformation means looking beyond the chip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Second Use\u003c\/i\u003e, machines, records, and institutions find work their makers did not anticipate. Researchers borrow the equipment of the gaming industry. A missing engine helps identify a shipwreck. Sailors rebuild a calculation after their compass fails. A trading program keeps buying and selling after the orders it was meant to fill are complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of people finding possibilities-and discovering limits-in what they inherit. A processor may retain an unexpected capability. A record may preserve an answer to a question nobody has asked. Or it may lack the very detail its next user needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from mining facilities and archives to laboratories and the disputed boundary between a mind and its tools, the book follows an increasingly consequential question: what happens when a useful representation becomes a reason to act?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next use can make a discovery possible. It can also carry an old assumption farther than anyone meant it to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Logan Ronco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798171983260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Logan Ronco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780057207039,"sku":"9798171983260","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-second-use-logan-ronco-9798171983260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}