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Unlock the secrets of tomorrow with The Precision Prognosticator: Navigating the Path to Accurate Future Prediction. This incredible audiobook will transform your understanding of the future, sharpen your mind, and empower you to make life-changing decisions. Dive into a journey of innovation, insight, and inspiration that will elevate your life to new heights! The Precision Prognosticator is an extraordinary exploration of forecasting’s art & science.

Blockchains are new technology layers that rewire the Internet and threaten to side-step older legacy constructs and centrally served businesses. At its core, a blockchain injects trust into the network, cutting off some intermediaries from serving that function and disrupting how they operate. Metaphorically, blockchains are the ultimate non-stop computers. Once launched, they never go down, and offer an incredible amount of resiliency. The Business Blockchain charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before.

How do you reply to your colleague’s weird email? What would Emily Post say about your Tinder profile? And just how do you know if you’re mansplaining? In this irreverent journey through the murky world of digital etiquette, Wired’s Victoria Turk provides an indispensable guide to minding our manners in a brave new online world, and making peace with the platforms, apps, and devices we love to hate.

Richard Browning’s story is one of groundbreaking innovation. Building an aviation business from his garage, he has invented a whole new form of personal flight - a fantasy previously reserved for the pages of science fiction. His iconic jet suit has captured the imaginations of millions around the world, triggered ongoing developments in technology and engineering, and inspired a new generation of creative minds to pursue their dreams.

For years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders at all levels, from entrepreneurs nurturing start-up businesses to C-suite leaders at the world's biggest corporations.

Experience a paradigm shift from perceiving AI as a complicated, distant concept to embracing it as a game-changing tool for your business. Your journey to innovation, growth, and market domination with AI starts here!

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY ESSENTIALS: A CONCISE GUIDE AND PRIMER An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of technology strategy. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective technology strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, and managers. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics including the technology life cycle, innovation diffusion, disruptive innovation, open ...

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, a dynamic advocate for women in STEM, insists that technology is not an unchangeable and unquestionable force. It is not the preserve of the elite. It is in our homes and in our hands. Rather than feeling powerless to make changes to the way tech works and fails, she argues that it's time to get into the room where the decisions are made. Or, better yet, create our own tech rooms.

Internet y la tecnología digital han hecho posibles nuevas formas de trabajo y de interacción. El mundo laboral vive en permanente cambio gracias a ello y requiere que las organizaciones y las personas se adapten a dinámicas flexibles.

AI is a tool that can innovate and accelerate your business...if you know how to use it. Follow author, business coach, and AI Whisperer Severin Sorensen as he gives you the tools for taking advantage of AI platforms like ChatGPT, all with an eye toward business applications for the non-technical listener.

In The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, a duo of experienced tech and culture experts delivers a can't-miss guide to participating in the most promising new technology since the advent of the web. Through dozens of metaverse creator case studies and concise, actionable insights, you'll walk away from this book understanding how to explore and implement the latest metaverse tech emerging from blockchain, XR, and web3.

Companies small and large are initiating AI projects, investing vast sums of money on software, developers, and data scientists. Too often, these AI projects focus on technology at the expense of actionable or tangible business results, resulting in scattershot results and wasted investment. Succeeding with AI sets out a blueprint for AI projects to ensure they are predictable, successful, and profitable. It’s filled with practical techniques for running data science programs that are cost effective and focused on the right business goals.

In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly Silicon Valley, not NASA, was the epicentre of the new Space Age. Start-ups and investors began to realise that the heavens - ungoverned and unregulated - were open for business. When the Heavens Went on Sale tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied race to control access to outer space. Ashlee Vance follows four pioneering companies - Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs and Rocket Lab - as they attempt to launch thousands of low-cost rockets and satellites into orbit.

Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs, but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in.

Palantir ist eines der geheimnisumwittertsten Unternehmen überhaupt. Das liegt vor allem daran, dass sich das weltweit erfolgreiche Unternehmen bislang nur selten zum eigenen Tun geäußert hat. Damit ist nun Schluss: In ihrem Buch stellen die Insider-Autor:innen – darunter auch der Gründer und CEO Alex Karp selbst – erstmals ihre Unternehmensphilosophie der "Augmented Intelligence" vor und teilen ihre Erkenntnisse über den Umgang mit künstlicher Intelligenz in einer zunehmend digitalen Welt.

In Defying Reality, David M. Ewalt traces the story of virtual reality from ancient amphitheaters to Cold War military laboratories, through decades of hype and failure, to a 19-year-old video game aficionado who made the impossible possible. Ewalt looks at how businesses are already using this tech to revolutionize the world around us, and what we can expect in the future. Ewalt offers a unique perspective on VR. With firsthand accounts and on-the-ground reporting, Defying Reality shows how VR will change our work, our play, and the way we relate to one another.

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.

Do you want to understand what big data is all about, but you don’t get all the hype? Are you intrigued by the idea of building a career around big data and data science, but you just don’t understand it? If so, this audiobook could be what you are looking for. If you know nothing about big data now, you will come away with a good overview of the subject and how it integrates into the other hot technologies of the day widely adopted by business, such as artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and machine learning.

How can leaders adapt to the rapid change of technology's impact on business? How can AI be leveraged for more intelligent decision making? Can our choices be simultaneously good for business and the world? This book provides leaders with the first steps to answer these important questions. For over thirty years, technology has become more interwoven with both our professional and personal lives. In the future, the integration of tech, business, and life will become even more seamless.

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good for You, New York Times best-selling author Steven Johnson's Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling portrait of this new political worldview.