New Technology

From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence.

Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches. This dialogue provides a powerful example of the dialectical writing that Plato uses to manifest ideas that are essential to human existence and to living a good life. Phaedrus shows how oral and written forms of language relate to each other and to philosophy.

In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today's machine learning boom in context.

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world.

In this book, Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions - infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material - and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere. He recounts the frustrations and rewards of years of research and offers fascinating portraits of his peers as they raced to discover the causes of fatal brain diseases.

In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.

This book summarizes new and developing technologies that may be important investment opportunities in the near future. It covers technologies from artificial intelligence to space exploration and includes some of the authors predictions that he expects to become the most important developments and have the greatest opportunities for building a fortune.

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.

Unlock Your Potential as an Online Tutor: A Comprehensive Guide to Building and Scaling Your Tutoring Business In today’s digital age, online tutoring has become an essential resource for students seeking personalized support and guidance. This book serves as your ultimate roadmap to success in the world of online education. Whether you're an experienced educator or just starting your tutoring journey, this guide provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to thrive. Inside, you will discover: Proven Strategies: Learn how to identify your niche, attract clients, and build a strong ...

In Mind Power: Into the 21st Century, John Kehoe has articulated a set of life-changing principles for charting a course to success and happiness. More than that, however, Mind Power: Into the 21st Century presents a remarkably specific and practical guide.

Ready to take control of your financial future? Say goodbye to long hours and hello to smart income with AI-Powered Passive Income Made Easy—your ultimate guide to turning the revolutionary power of ChatGPT into a wealth-generating machine in 2025. This step-by-step beginner’s guide unlocks the secrets of creating effortless income streams using cutting-edge AI tools. Whether you’re a total newbie or a tech-savvy entrepreneur, this book equips you with actionable strategies to make money while you sleep.

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología.

Introduction REFLECTIONS ON SOME NOTABLE QUOTES ON A.I REVOLUTION: Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google) “AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.” Bill Gates “AI can be our friend, but it needs to be handled carefully. We should be optimistic but also cautious.” Yuval Noah Harari “The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be: what to do with all the superfluous people when AI takes over most jobs?” Alan Turing “Instead of trying to produce a program to simulate the ...

Lawrence Weschler sets Oliver Sacks' brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks' capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul.

Explore the Garden State! Learn about New Jersey's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our third state.

As dramatic as any great literary classic, and told in Jim Weiss’s warm, accessible style, these stories reveal the personal, professional, and societal challenges these geniuses overcame, and shine a light on the nature of genius itself. And as a clear, family-friendly introduction to mathematics and science, listeners will find an inspiring, welcoming world opening up.

As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this audiobook, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and along the way, he will share his philosophy with young entrepreneurs all over the globe.

“A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience—it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)—from the visionary co-founder of one of today’s most innovative technology companies.

Take a look at the vehicle sitting in your driveway. It may be the last one you ever own. With an estimated 33 million fully autonomous cars and taxis projected to hit the road by 2040, an automotive renaissance is soon to be upon us. Personal car ownership currently costs the average sedan owner $9,000 annually. But car ownership may soon be a thing of the past.

Cryptocurrency Technologies Unlocked is the ultimate guide to understanding blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc), the future of digital money, and possible impacts of this game-changing technology, even if you're a complete beginner.