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The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy. Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one...

Over the past decade, a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses, with companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, Meta, Tesla and Apple all totally redefining what a successful organisation looks and feels like. Each chapter in Outpacer focusses on an Outpacer characteristic required for organisational greatness and features examples of what it is and how to achieve it.

Resolution is a visionary exploration of how humanity might finally achieve harmony in a new kind of world—and what transformative events may be required to bring such a civilization into being. It asks the essential questions: How should we live? What guiding ethos could unite humanity beyond the confines of belief systems, borders, and inherited divisions?

“While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin’s book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal level to always put humanity first.”—Andrew Yang “A clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with our jobs—and...

"[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." — AudioFile Magazine This program includes a foreword read by the author...

Explore the science behind one of television’s greatest series. Star Trek shaped and defined the science-fiction genre for generations of television viewers and writers, and now readers can learn more about the science presented on the show. What’s it like traveling at warp speed? What are...

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political...

זהו ספר שבוחן את זהותה של האנושות ואת חלומותיה, ומציע מבט מרענן ומפתיע על העולם של המאה ה–21. פרופ' יובל נח הררי מרצה בחוג להיסטוריה באוניברסיטה העברית. הוא מתמחה...

Restoring Our Sanity Online is the entertaining, informative, and frequently jaw-dropping social reset by Mark Weinstein, contemporary tech leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. This book is for all of us. Casual and heavy users of social media, parents, teachers, students, techies, entrepreneurs, investors, and elected officials. Restoring Our Sanity Online is the catapult to an exciting, enriching, and authentic future. Listeners will embark on a captivating journey leading to an inspiring and actionable reinvention.

AI is at the forefront of everyone's minds: from students and artists, to CEO's and service workers. But what exactly is AI, and how does it influence our everyday lives? And more than that, what does it mean for our future? Is there a way for us to retain our "humanness" in a world ever-reliant on tech? This groundbreaking book argues that the key technology we use to make strategic, political, and ethical decisions is flawed.

Der Kampf gegen den Klimawandel wird nebenan geführt. Erfinderinnen und Denker, Wissenschaftler und Ingenieurinnen machen mit ihren Ideen und Projekten Mut. Dirk Rossmann und Josef Settele haben sie für dieses Buch besucht, mit ihnen gesprochen und ihre Geschichten aufgeschrieben. Entstanden ist daraus eine beeindruckende Erzählung über Helden zum Anfassen. Eine Erzählung über ihre Innovationen, ihre Zähigkeit, ihre klugen Einfälle, aber auch über ihren Alltag, ihre Normalität. Die Autoren schüren Hoffnung. Und diese ist, neben aller Tatkraft und allen Ideen, von absoluter Wichtigkeit.

From Amazon's Alexa to Japan's robot chefs, technology is becoming increasingly saturated into our everyday lives. Previous technological revolutions have come and gone, but this one is different. For the first time in economic history, productivity and employment are diverging, suggesting that humans are contributing less to economic growth.

In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed and described the core components of the futures they envisioned. Montfort's approach is not that of futurology or scenario planning; instead, he reports on the work of making the future - the thinkers who devoted themselves to writing pages in the unwritten book.

L'anno che verrà ci deve molte risposte. Dopo un anno sconvolto dal Coronavirus, è importante capire il 2021: studiare le sfide chiave dall'economia alla politica, dal cambiamento climatico alla cultura. Good Morning Italia cura una selezione di grandi firme del giornalismo italiano ci accompagna nell'esercizio sul futuro, riflettendo sui protagonisti e sulle tendenze fondamentali per iniziare l'anno che verrà.

When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since - especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age - and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions. 

Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of production. It is intrinsically social and political.

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, Balaji Srinivasan. All Silicon Valley movers and shakers. All men with one shared ideal: to deploy cutting-edge technology to exit the world as it is and create new worlds as they want them to be. Bloomberg journalist Gian Volpicelli’s white-knuckle ride...

当人工智能的浪潮无情冲击现有的职业边界时，如何在科技趋势的剧变中化解职场焦虑并重新掌控生存叙事，已成为每个人的终极拷问。抛开那些被盲目夸大的信息噪音与末日神话，我们需要一份冷静清晰的思考地图。这部作...

当我们将人类文明置于百亿年的宇宙演化史中审视，这种短暂而脆弱的社会形态，究竟是不可避免的进阶，还是严苛法则下的生存奇迹？这场跨越星辰与生命起源的思想旅行，专为渴望突破认知边界、寻求深层宏观哲思的你而...

Mergulhe em uma jornada de cosmologia e filosofia para redefinir o progresso humano a partir de uma escala universal. Ideal para momentos de foco profundo ou durante seu trajeto diário, esta reflexão contemplativa transforma a Terra em um minúsculo ponto num vasto oceano cósmico. Prepare-se...