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AI is a present reality: we live at the threshold of an AI-dominated era. AI is more than a Technology wave. In the 21st century and beyond it is the very core source of power that fuels politics, business, and society: our minds, our work, and our homes. AI also rewrites the rules and forces us to lose no time in rethinking fundamental questions of our humanity. Our human brains will soon be required to adapt at hyper-speed to a new paradigm of omnipresent...
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Using an amalgam of the social, life, and physical sciences and encompassing a broad spectrum of time from the creation to the present, Mark M. Bell describes how we must continue to strip away the unknowns and misconceptions that have bound and divided us in order to survive as a species. In explaining the necessary changes to the way we educate, parent, and choose world leadership, and by introducing new terms such as mindbrain, and the AUQ, the...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Robert B. Tucker's book "Managing the Future" shows how no business can afford to rest on its laurels and on the successes of the past. If there's one hallmark of long-term companies, it's the ability to manage the future as well as the present. In his book, the author demonstrates how great companies do this and presents three strategies used by them which you can adapt and implement. This summary provides...
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Our systems are failing. Old models-for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply-are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads towards 10 billion, it's clear we need new approaches. In We Do Things Differently, historian and futurologist Mark Stevenson sets out to find them, across four continents. From Brazilian favelas to high tech Boston, from rural India to a shed inventor in England's...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler's book "Abundance" shows how advances in technology will make the world capable of meeting and exceeding the basic needs of every human on the planet. According to the authors, these technologies also have the potential to address several of society's most unsolvable problems. By learning about their research, you can understand the potential of modern technology and the...
106) The Baldwins
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In the post-apocalyptic future, 50 years after the last government of turbo-liberals and its president-for-life have been elected, a group of researchers convenes a Congress to address the curious cultural phenomenon of the Baldwins, whose stories have been gathered and archived by the chroniclers. This novel of fragments represents contemporary prose at its most daring and experimental.
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L'ancien monde, celui que nous avons connu jusqu'en mars 2020, n'est plus. Il a disparu à jamais et sera remplacé par un nouveau monde qui, certes, apportera beaucoup de bienfaits dans notre vie quotidienne en raison de l'impressionnante avancée technologique (Intelligence Artificielle), mais nous rendra plus égoïstes, moins solidaires et plus éloignés les uns des autres. Les libertés fondamentales seront confisquées par des hyper-États...
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Réveil sur la terre malade propose trois écrits très différenciés sur la contre-culture. Évoquée depuis son apparition violente, révolutionnaire des années 60 aux USA, la contre-culture passe ensuite à toute la dimension intérieure du New Age pour se retrouver face à ce qui nous guette aujourd’hui: le « déshumain ». Elle peut constituer le premier niveau d'une émancipation sociale, collective, vers une culture autre d'ouverture de...
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A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st Century In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for - and in need of - fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global renaissance in the new millennium, Barbara Marx Hubbard shows us that our current crises are not the precursors of an...
110) The Breaks
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A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable...
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"Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from...
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The must-read summary of Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book: "Five Regions of the Future: Preparing Your Business for Tomorrow's Technology Revolution".
This complete summary of the ideas from Joel Barker and Scott Erikson's book "Five Regions of the Future" shows that new technology falls into one of five well-defined regions. In their book, the authors explain how you can make smart decisions about which technologies will ultimately transform...
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The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines.
Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely...
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Since the dawn of consciousness, humanity has crafted false belief systems about God: mythological and anthropomorphic images of "The Light." Today, many reject the ancient religions and demand a new theosophy, one that is consistent with 21st Century minds and hearts. The Light delivers a contemporary examination of the social, scientific, and spiritual forces that are shifting the Godhead toward an integrated belief system founded on a genderful/genderless...
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the global community's commitment to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Are we heading for environmental collapse? Can we avert a climate catastrophe and enable peace, justice, and shared futures for humanity? These questions call for transformational change. This book explores the root causes of today's failures and lays out a plan for real-world innovation labs using a SMART future design paradigm...
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This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.
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Have you ever had a strong feeling of deja vu or witnessed that a dream came true in the future? Are such experiences precognitive or just illusions of the mind? How would a top scientist approach such questions about the paranormal?
The Oneironauts, or "the dream travelers," introduces new scientific evidence that we really do experience possible future events in our dreams.
Author Paul Kalas is the University of California, Berkeley astronomer who...
118) Blockchain Faith
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Bitcoin arrived in 2009. From nothing, cryptocurrency exploded to almost a trillion dollars market value in nine short years. Now Initial Coin Offerings clamor for attention and support. Demand for computer processors and electricity to run them soars. New Crypto millionaires reshape the economy. Banks and their clients race to secure patents on blockchain technology, while disparaging the same methods they would patent. Governments express concern,...
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Exploring Tomorrow: Navigating the Path to the FutureChart Your Course into the UnknownEmbark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of time and imagination. "Exploring Tomorrow: Navigating the Path to the Future" is your passport to the uncharted territories of the future.Unveil the Future: Join us on a captivating exploration of the trends, technologies, and ethical dilemmas that define our ever-evolving world. From the frontiers of artificial...
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