Future World

7 Types of Human By Joshua T Berglan and Paul Carpenter In a world where technology and genetics are converging at an unprecedented pace, humanity stands at the threshold of a remarkable evolution. "7 Types of Human" explores this transformative landscape, presenting a compelling vision of the future where seven distinct human archetypes emerge from the fusion of biology and technology. This insightful and thought-provoking book delves into the lives, challenges, and ethical dilemmas faced by these new human types: The Indigenous Humans: Guardians of cultural heritage and natural living, ...

Savage Battle for A New Star System by Anna Patterson This epic drama takes place when two Worlds collide in all out warfare and battles of cities and people. Many tired of the awful life and daily strife flee the bombing and shelling only to find peril up ahead and heartbreak and treachery in this new and to the death conflict for a new star system. This new star system is much desired like a fantasy land of enchantment.

April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: "Jericho man murdered over home sale." The 42 year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire, because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews. Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. In this revealing book, Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith.

Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”.

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives.

In the light of historical review, decades from today future generations will need to know that there was dissent against this story of the CoVID-19 pandemic. I am proud to be one of the few voices dissenting against the distortion of science which has characterized the coronavirus infection. Let us allow data-backed, scientific evidence to have its say, unfiltered by self-interested propagandists that are exploiting the public’s incomprehension of scientific matters. You can declare yourself free from this infectious virus panic and hysteria. I'm doing my best to teach as many as who ...

In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams: two presidents and a social worker. Each took a different path to prominence, yet the three progressives believed the United States must assume a more dynamic role in confronting the growing domestic and international problems of an exciting new age.

Science fiction reflects on the paths that bring us to the present while shining a light on opportunities and dangers ahead. It's through the power of the imagination that humanity stretches into unknown worlds yet peers into the depths of the human experience. In these stories from OldEarth and Newearth worlds, every character's life speaks to a mysterious whole that we'd miss without them.

Sensationalism about AI has reached new heights, and getting a useful understanding of it has never been more important. AI will extend and accelerate thinking, delivering unprecedented abundance. But it will also require us to navigate a path of challenges ranging from today’s issues of bias, privacy, and explainability, to job displacement through automation, and a future coexistence with superintelligent machines. This book is the roadmap to that path.

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: Energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade patterns…

Blood, bullets, and the promise of tomorrow. After the downfall, hardened soldier Randall Colt guards society’s last chance of restoration: a mysterious package he must deliver at all costs. To do so, he moves like a wolf through treacherous territories where peril skulks in the shadows. When two intrepid women, on the run from cutthroat raiders, hinder Colt’s covert objective, he must violate his own rules and risk everything on a journey where weakness means death and trust equals demise. With every step, the newfound allies must fight through rivers of bodies, raging dust storms, and...

From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.

The author challenges us to think critically, yet optimistically, about the future of transportation and to consider the impacts it will have on our lives, our communities and our planet. This book is a call to action for all of us to engage in conversations about the future of personal mobility and to work towards creating transportation systems that are safe, efficient and accessible for all. I hope it inspires you to imagine a future where flying cars are not just a dream, but a reality.

When a cosmic anomaly disrupts the championship baseball game between Earth and Mars, reclusive trillionair Xan Ruiz-Harlow takes the bold step of shifting the contest into an artificial "Infinite Plane" existing outside of normal space-time. Now the elite players of the Earth Raptors and Mars Thunderbolts must adapt to playing in a dimension where the laws of physics are constantly warped in bizarre ways - balls defying gravity, trajectories altering inexplicably, and the very fabric of reality threatening to unravel with each pitch. As the greatest stars from both worlds employ innovative...

From the secret fossils of London to the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life-story is written into the landscape. Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama.

Immerse yourself in a gripping new eBook, "Rising from the Dead." This thrilling read takes the world's most popular apocalypse trope - the zombie outbreak - and builds a captivating narrative around survival, resilience, and the reestablishment of socities in a world after the dust has settled. Has the end truly come when the dead start walking? "Understanding the Post-Zombie World," the first chapter, introduces you to the stark new reality and the immediate fallout of this zombie apocalypse. In the subsequent chapters like "The Art of Rebuilding Societies" and "Formulating New Systems of...

The rapid convergence of computing and telecommunications technologies into products, better known as the Internet of Things, coupled with strong human behavioral change has created the emergence of a technological discontinuity that is disrupting all industries as we know them. Information once "trapped" in products is being unleashed, creating a flow of Product in Use Data that is becoming the basis of new services, new business models, and new ecosystems leading to the substitution of traditional product and service companies and the total disruption of industries. During this merging of...

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection - yet we know hardly anything about them. Whales tend to enter our awareness only when they die, struck by a ship or stranded in the surf. They evolved from land-roaming, doglike creatures into animals that move like fish and breathe like us and can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and roam entire ocean basins. Yet despite centuries of observing whales, we know little about their evolutionary past.

Future Imperfect describes and discusses technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain.

Melinda Ashley has a plan for her life, and a trip to Mars isn't part of it. When she receives a spaceliner ticket as a high school graduation gift from her dad, she is dismayed, but reluctantly agrees to go with him--in part because she's infuriated by her fiance's high-handed declaration that she can't. Her outlook begins to change when she meets Alex Preston, a second-generation Martian colonist who is going home after college on Earth. Alex believes settling Mars is important. He's looking forward to the role he expects to play in the colony's future. Melinda finds this hard to ...