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Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science writer Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass.

In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life.

In Like, bestselling author and renowned strategist Martin Reeves and coauthor Bob Goodson—Silicon Valley veteran and participant in the invention of the like button—take listeners along on a fascinating quest to find out what's behind the world's friendliest icon. It's a story that starts out as simply as a thumbs-up cartoon but ends up presenting surprises and new mysteries at every turn, some of them as deep as anthropological history and others as speculative as the AI-charged future.

Written by seasoned tech executive Sandy Carter, AI First, Human Always is your guidebook to the seven hottest trends in AI. This book will recalibrate your approach to the exponential curve of emerging AI solutions for business. It will help you transform today's unstoppable currents of change into tailwinds that propel your organization to great heights.

On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

As an internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess had built a reputation among readers as a sharp observer of the seductions and manipulations of online life. But when Hess discovered she was pregnant with her first child, she found herself unexpectedly rattled by a digital identity crisis of her own. In the summer of 2020, a routine ultrasound detected a mysterious abnormality in Hess’s baby. Without hesitation, she reached for her phone, looking for answers.

In this profound and urgent new book, leading thinker on technology Kester Brewin shows how AI is both stunningly new and rooted in the most ancient human desires. Hailed by the UK government's own lead on AI as 'god-like', as we finally welcome this stunning technology amongst us—with Frankenstein and Faustus, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the underbelly of Silicon Valley—Brewin skillfully leads us through the myths, machines, and monsters that have influenced the development of our greatest and most longed-for invention, and how we can learn to live alongside it.

Security Awareness programs have gone from an afterthought to a critical component of Information Security programs. Most large organizations now have one or more full-time employees dedicated to awareness and managing human risks. This book defines a common framework for building a broad awareness program using the Train, Reinforce, Assess and Manage (TRAM) model. It includes specific advice and examples for activities across the TRAM functions. This book is filled with examples of deliverables an awareness professional can leverage in their program. This book also provides logical ...

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.

Green energy technologies such as windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles may soon depend on material found at the seabed. How did a space once imagined to be empty and unfathomable come to be thought of as a treasure trove of resources? Lisa Yin Han traces how contemporary developments in underwater sensing and imaging materially and imaginatively transmogrify the ocean bottom into a resource frontier capable of sustaining a digitally connected global future.

FREE Bonus Book Included With Purchase This book contains proven steps and strategies to help you better understand imposter syndrome and overcome it. If you have nagging thoughts in your head that you do not deserve to be successful, this book is for you. If you believe that you owe your success to good luck and favorable circumstances, this book is for you. If you think that you are deceiving people around you with your success and accomplishments, despite having already achieved much in your life or career, this book is for you. This book is for all who have worked hard to attain their ...

Leave Your Phone at the Door embraces the OFFLINE philosophy, which is a celebration of the much-underrated virtues of randomness and serendipity. Whether sharing stories of unexpected encounters, alarming behavioral trends or the joys of quiet and contemplation, Howard Lewis encourages us to adopt an open mind and a generosity of spirit whenever we are confronted by the unfamiliar or surprising or different.

In the year 1600, a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things. 350 years later, having witnessed 'Trinity' — the first test of the atomic bomb — America's leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth. 25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this 'machine for augmenting human intellect', dazzling as he stands 'Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands'.

As the epidemic of male violence towards women and young girls reaches terrifying new heights through new and expanding technologies, women's rights campaigner Jess Davies will help listeners to question society's understanding - or lack of - when it comes to consent. With a toolkit to understand and tackle online misogyny, No One Wants to See Your D*ck will arm a new wave of internet sleuths to take down the manosphere, one unsolicited pic at a time.

"La Guerra De Los Chips" es una fascinante inmersión en la nueva batalla que define el poder global en el siglo XXI: el dominio de los microchips. Más que simples componentes electrónicos, los chips son el corazón de todo —desde teléfonos inteligentes y automóviles hasta sistemas de defensa militar y redes de inteligencia artificial.

The Deep Internet, often shrouded in mystery, is a vast and shadowy realm that exists beneath the surface of the web we know and use daily. Unlike the accessible corners of the internet, where social media, news sites, and blogs flourish, the Deep Internet hosts a myriad of sites that are hidden from standard search engines. This hidden world is teeming with secrets, many of which can send chills down your spine. As we plunge into this enigmatic territory, prepare yourself for a journey that reveals some of the scariest and most unsettling images you will ever come across online.

Create a professional book cover for an Amazon Digital book called ‘Coding Conundrms - The Definitive History of the Computer Puzzle’ by Jothi Low. Here is the blurb from the book to give you an idea of what it is about. Remember the satisfaction of solving your first computer puzzle? That moment when the pieces clicked together, when logic triumphed, and the screen celebrated your victory? A Journey Through Time Coding Conundrums - The Definitive History of Computer Puzzles takes you back to where it all began—those monochrome screens with simple text adventures and rudimentary logic...

Das Umfeld in den sozialen Netzwerken wird immer ekliger: Hass, Ausgrenzung, Beleidigung und extreme Positionen dominieren X, Facebook, Instagram und Co. Große Unternehmen ziehen immer häufiger hohe Werbeetats von den Plattformen ab. Engagement Rates sinken seit Jahren, da Bots einen enormen Anteil der Interaktion ausmachen. Für viele Nutzer werden soziale Medien dadurch immer unattraktiver. Sie wechseln in neu entstehende digitale Communitys, die ein geschütztes Umfeld frei von Falschinformationen und plumper Meinungsmache bieten.