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2023.
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"The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what ourlives will look like once it has"--
"The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy...
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English
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"An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind “A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”٬٢٠١٤؛Yuval Noah Harari “Essential reading.”٬٢٠١٤؛Daniel Kahneman “An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”٬٢٠١٤؛Bill...
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2023.
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English
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"From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements,...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"On October 16, 1987 meteorologists predicted a nice, breezy day in the south of England. Instead, the countryside was battered by the worst storm to hit the country in over 300 years. Twenty-two people were killed and damages totaled more than 3.3 million dollars. In the aftermath, scientists asked themselves: why was the forecast wrong? What could have been done to predict this? Meteorologist Tim Palmer discovered the answer: it comes down to embracing...
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Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. ― MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism. What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels from ancient times? The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a metre or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization—virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In this non-fiction book for teens, readers are guided through the development of this world-changing technology, exploring how AI has touched every corner of our world, including education, healthcare, work, politics, war, international relations, and even romance. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence got here, how to make the best use of it, and how we can expect it to transform our lives"--
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8) How to expect the unexpected: the science of making predictions--and the art of knowing when not to
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever since the dawn of human civilization, we have been trying to make predictions about what the world has in store for us. For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. In How to Expect the Unexpected, mathematician Kit Yates uncovers the surprising science...
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Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The Great Reset was just the beginning. At important meetings in 2021 and 2022, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, and business who support the World Economic Forum’s plan for a Great Reset of capitalism launched a new “call to action” titled the “Great Narrative.” The Great Narrative campaign seeks to use the decay of traditional values throughout the West and new and future advancements in technology—including in the...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing everything from where we’ll live, how we’ll look, and who we’ll be, by the popular science broadcaster and bestselling author Jay Ingram. Where will we live? How will we get around? What will we look like? These are just some of the questions bestselling author and popular science broadcaster Jay Ingram answers in this exciting examination of the...
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Paidós
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"BESTSELLER: Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller,Amazon: Best Books of 2022 El metaverso va a cambiar tu vida. Descubre cómo. El término metaverso está en todas partes, desde las portadas de los periódicos hasta los discursos de los directores ejecutivos de las Big Tech, incluidos Sataya Nadella y Mark Zuckerberg, quienes revelaron en octubre de 2021 que Facebook estaba cambiando su nombre a Meta. Pero ¿qué es exactamente...
12) Against the day
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the Hollywood silent-movie era.
As the uncertainty of the future surrounds a group of individuals in the years following the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, they struggle to pursue their dreams and overcome the tragedies of war, death, and failure....
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Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"WITH A FOREWORD BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE A renowned cardiologist and Harvard professor spells out the future digital shift of medicine — and how it will impact the lives not only of patients and health care professionals but of all humans. Future care is virtual care: sensor-aided, digitally enabled, and powered by predictive analytics. Like most facets of modern life, human organs, too, are being digitally monitored. Sensors are well on their...
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""In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrifying."—Wall Street Journal There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart...
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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"Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization. Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Drawing from firsthand observations, mental models and experiences from a 25-year career in the software industry, a tech visionary explores how blockchain networks have begun to democratize ownership, granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations, and how that affects us all.
''The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom....
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Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In his first illustrated book created specifically for readers of all ages, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity and shares his dreams for where we go from here. With his bold, iconic art, Oliver Jeffers follows the human path from the dawn of our species through history, sharing profound, sometimes poignant, commentary on our present, and then offers a challenge: Where do we go from here? How can we create new stories and new systems...
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