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Author : Rose M. Colombo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479770000
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks, and Radicals written by Rose M. Colombo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * no summary
Author : Rose M Colombo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781958004425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Obamasaurus written by Rose M Colombo and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obamasaurus is a fictional political satire relaunched with a new twist formerly published as the 2013 Irwin Award winning short story, Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Rednecks & Radicals. This political satire is written to remind free people who believe they were created by God and those who wonder if it's possible that a few evil men and women could conspire to wipe out humanity by 90%. Is it possible that wealthy people who join secret societies conspire to manipulate each person's God-given DNA in order to hookup human bodies and minds to the internet. Could every survivor be controlled by AI and turned into mindless zombies who don't procreate or think for themselves? Imagine mindless people walking around with erased memories or without emotions. This would be the end of freedom for humanity if Artificial Intelligence had the capacity to control our minds. - God Bless, Rose M. Colombo
Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469439
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.
Author : Rose Colombo
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1600377092
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fight Back Legal Abuse written by Rose Colombo and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Colombo hit the news when she asked the question, "How much justice can you afford?" Colombo said she walked into the courtroom of no justice wealthy and walked out of the courtroom poor after she was thrust into the dark side of justice and felt as if she had been stripped of her freedom and thrown into a concentration camp with no rights. Most people know nothing about the legal system. We must not go down to their level but must force them to come up to our level.
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN 13 : 0316132772
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Flashback written by Dan Simmons and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers. The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316006972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Flashback written by Dan Simmons and published by Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, FLASHBACK proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers. The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.
Author : Philip J. Landrigan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725291746
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health written by Philip J. Landrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today.
Author : LearningExpress (Organization)
Publisher : Learning Express (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781576859209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)
Download or read book 501 GMAT Questions written by LearningExpress (Organization) and published by Learning Express (NY). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide divided into four distinct sections, each representing a section of the official GMAT.
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959622
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Light of Other Days written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times—around every corner, through every wall—the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Philip E. Tetlock
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 080413670X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Superforecasting written by Philip E. Tetlock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST “The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught? In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are "superforecasters." In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving together stories of forecasting successes (the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound) and failures (the Bay of Pigs) and interviews with a range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin, they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources, thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a modern classic.
Author : C. Jon Delogu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013284892
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age written by C. Jon Delogu and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age is an introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his monumental two-volume study Democracy in America (1835, 1840) that pays particular attention to the critical conversation around Tocqueville and contemporary democracy. It attempts to help us think better about democracy, and also perhaps to live better, in the Internet Age. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618969020
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher written by Timothy Egan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudevill stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.
Author : Eben Kirksey
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529217296
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Mutant Project written by Eben Kirksey and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue: The World on Notice -- 1: I'm Quite Glad That I Wasn't First -- 2: A Typical Shenzhen Story -- 3: The Best Humans Haven't Been Produced Yet -- 4: Winner Takes All -- 5: Look at Those Muscles, Look at That Butt -- 6: A Moral Choice -- 7: Will I Have to Mortgage My House? -- 8: The Cancer Moonshot -- 9: Free Health Care for All -- 10: Silence = Death -- 11: Immortality Has to Be the Goal --12: I Don't Want to Walk, I Want to Fly -- 13: High-Quality Children -- 14: #Transracial -- 15: American Medicine and Only for You -- 16: He Was Busy, Busy, Always Doing Research -- 17: A Hammer, Looking for a Nail -- 18: Beautiful Lies -- 19: Two Healthy Baby Girls? -- 20: Mixed Wisdom -- 21: They Are Moving Forward -- 22: Chinese Scientists Are Creating CRISPR Babies -- 23: Bubbles Vanishing into Air -- 24: The Horse has Already Bolted -- Epilogue: We Have Never Been Human.
Author : Rose M. Colombo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479765392
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Oops! What's The Name Of My Lipstick? written by Rose M. Colombo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * no summary
Author : Frank Pasquale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674975227
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book New Laws of Robotics written by Frank Pasquale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation. Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: make robots or be replaced by them. Another story is possible. In virtually every walk of life, robotic systems can make labor more valuable, not less. Frank Pasquale tells the story of nurses, teachers, designers, and others who partner with technologists, rather than meekly serving as data sources for their computerized replacements. This cooperation reveals the kind of technological advance that could bring us all better health care, education, and more, while maintaining meaningful work. These partnerships also show how law and regulation can promote prosperity for all, rather than a zero-sum race of humans against machines. How far should AI be entrusted to assume tasks once performed by humans? What is gained and lost when it does? What is the optimal mix of robotic and human interaction? New Laws of Robotics makes the case that policymakers must not allow corporations or engineers to answer these questions alone. The kind of automation we get—and who it benefits—will depend on myriad small decisions about how to develop AI. Pasquale proposes ways to democratize that decision making, rather than centralize it in unaccountable firms. Sober yet optimistic, New Laws of Robotics offers an inspiring vision of technological progress, in which human capacities and expertise are the irreplaceable center of an inclusive economy.
Author : Rachel Simon
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781609418700
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Story of Beautiful Girl written by Rachel Simon and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most compelling, resonating novel I've read in years... A breathtakingly beautiful, yet heart-wrenchingly aching story that, despite its cruelty and humanity, uplifts the reader." - Omaha World-Herald NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429900326
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book What's the Matter with Kansas? written by Thomas Frank and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
