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The End of Killing
- How Our Newest Technologies Can Solve Humanity's Oldest Problem
- De: Rick Smith
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
The gun is antiquated technology, and it is responsible for tens of thousands of senseless killings every year. Humanity has accepted that killing is an unavoidable fact of life - but Rick Smith argues that it doesn’t need to be this way and that we have the means to make the bullet obsolete in our lifetime. Smith is the founder of TASER (now Axon), and in this book, he demonstrates that change won't come by way of stricter gun control laws. No, what holds us back is our skepticism about new technologies and their potential.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genuinely different than I anticipated.
- De SomeGUY en 02-06-20
- The End of Killing
- How Our Newest Technologies Can Solve Humanity's Oldest Problem
- De: Rick Smith
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
Genuinely different than I anticipated.
Revisado: 02-06-20
This was a really good book, and it does indeed challenge my preconceived notions of military and policing, I'm the perspective of less lethal force.
Rick Smith makes a compelling position regarding reducing and even eliminating bloodshed in wars, and in policing. I did not expect to have my position swayed, but when approached with an open mind, I am titillated.
While Rick Smith is the CEO of Axon, this does not come off as a marketing infomercial. This is some truly transformational thought. The technology already exists to achieve these goals, and the best is the enemy of the good. Like Tesla's auto pilot, critics and media focus on the failures public concept and not whether the concept is better than what it is looking to replace. As a Tesla auto pilot crash is world news, Taser injuries/deaths are newsworthy.
It is exciting the possibility the future may hold. These concepts don't lead to the dystopian futures that are fed to the masses.
I consumed this book in two days. I'll revisit it again, without a doubt.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- De: James W. Loewen
- Narrado por: Brian Keeler
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,011
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,271
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,276
This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Of course he has an agenda. He wrote a book!
- De Timothy en 09-02-04
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- De: James W. Loewen
- Narrado por: Brian Keeler
Good "read"
Revisado: 02-10-16
Interesting ideas that I have not gotten from the educational system I took part in. College didn't really address some of the information provided in this document. Engaging enough to keep me interested.
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