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Technology Unbound

Author : Steven R. Rivkin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148318420X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Technology Unbound written by Steven R. Rivkin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology Unbound: Transferring Scientific and Engineering Resources from Defense to Civilian Purposes talks about the reallocation of U.S. military resources for use in the civilian sector. The title analyzes implications of the resource adjustment to the U.S. economy. The text first covers the interplay between science, military, and economy. In the second chapter, the selection deals with the impact of the resource reallocation to industries, communities, scientists, and engineers. The next chapter details the needs of the U.S. civilian sector. The last chapter presents the prospects for adjustment. The book will be of great interest to military and government officials, economists, and political scientists.

Unbound

Author : Richard L Currier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727764
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Unbound written by Richard L Currier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story. Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins. The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter radically restructured the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa. Symbolic communication transformed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural process. The invention of agriculture revolutionized the relationship between humanity and the environment, and the technologies of interaction led to the birth of civilization. Precision machinery spawned the industrial revolution and the rise of nation-states; and in the next metamorphosis, digital technologies may well unite all of humanity for the benefit of future generations. Synthesizing the findings of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the modern narrative of human evolution that began with the discovery of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. But the same forces that allowed us to integrate technology into every aspect of our daily lives have also brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe. Unbound explains both how we got here and how human society must be transformed again to achieve a sustainable future. Technology: “The deliberate modification of any natural object or substance with forethought to achieve a specific end or to serve a specific purpose.”

The Unbound Prometheus

Author : David S. Landes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534024
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Unbound Prometheus written by David S. Landes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Athena Unbound

Author : Henry Etzkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521787383
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Athena Unbound written by Henry Etzkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are there so few women scientists? Persisting differences between women's and men's experiences in science make this question as relevant today as it ever was. This book sets out to answer this question, and to propose solutions for the future. Based on extensive research, it emphasizes that science is an intensely social activity. Despite the scientific ethos of universalism and inclusion, scientists and their institutions are not immune to the prejudices of society as a whole. By presenting women's experiences at all key career stages - from childhood to retirement - the authors reveal the hidden barriers, subtle exclusions and unwritten rules of the scientific workplace, and the effects, both professional and personal, that these have on the female scientist. This important book should be read by all scientists - both male and female - and sociologists, as well as women thinking of embarking on a scientific career.

Industry Unbound

Author : Ari Ezra Waldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492428
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Industry Unbound written by Ari Ezra Waldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privacy law isn't working. Waldman's groundbreaking work explains why, showing how tech companies manipulate us, our behavior, and our law.

Knowledge Unbound

Author : Peter Suber
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262329565
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Unbound written by Peter Suber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, “it was like an asteroid crash, fundamentally changing the environment, challenging dinosaurs to adapt, and challenging all of us to figure out whether we were dinosaurs.” When Suber began putting his writings and course materials online for anyone to use for any purpose, he soon experienced the benefits of that wider exposure. In 2001, he started a newsletter—the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, which later became the SPARC Open Access Newsletter—in which he explored the implications of open access for research and scholarship. This book offers a selection of some of Suber's most significant and influential writings on open access from 2002 to 2010. In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade.

Intelligence Unbound

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118736419
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Intelligence Unbound written by Russell Blackford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists. Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine minds Features contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and more Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow’s machine minds—and of the convergence of humans and machines—to consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilities Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholars Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1

Author : Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535793
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1 written by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world—rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingness, is set free to design contexts as complex systems. In a world where causality is systemic, entangled, in flux, and often elusive, we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead, we need to design for emergence. Design Unbound not only makes this case through theory but also presents a set of tools to do so. With case studies that range from a new kind of university to organizational, and even societal, transformation, Design Unbound draws from a vast array of domains: architecture, science and technology, philosophy, cinema, music, literature and poetry, even the military. It is presented in five books, bound as two volumes. Different books within the larger system of books will resonate with different reading audiences, from architects to people reconceiving higher education to the public policy or defense and intelligence communities. The authors provide different entry points allowing readers to navigate their own pathways through the system of books.

Amazon Unbound

Author : Brad Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132620
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Amazon Unbound written by Brad Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the growth of tech company Amazon and the evolution of its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.

Unbound

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316072176
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Unbound written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland awamps, climbed Tibetan peaks, scrambled over chain bridges, and trudged through the sands of the western deserts. Fewer than 10,000 of them would survive, but remarkably all of the women would live to tell the tale. Unbound is an amazing story of love, friendship, and survival written by a new master of adventure narrative.

Security Unbound

Author : Jef Huysmans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317813081
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Security Unbound written by Jef Huysmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security concerns have mushroomed. Increasingly numerous areas of life are governed by security policies and technologies. Security Unbound argues that when insecurities pervade how we relate to our neighbours, how we perceive international politics, how governments formulate policies, at stake is not our security but our democracy. Security is not in the first instance a right or value but a practice that challenges democratic institutions and actions. We are familiar with emergency policies in the name of national security challenging parliamentary processes, the space for political dissent, and fundamental rights. Yet, security practice and technology pervade society heavily in very mundane ways without raising national security crises, in particular through surveillance technology and the management of risks and uncertainties in many areas of life. These more diffuse security practices create societies in which suspicion becomes a default way of relating and governing relations, ranging from neighbourhood relations over financial transactions to cross border mobility. Security Unbound demonstrates that governing through suspicion poses serious challenges to democratic practice. Some of these challenges are familiar, such as the erosion of the right to privacy; others are less so, such as the post-human challenge to citizenship. Security unbound provokes us to see that the democratic political stake today is not our security but preventing insecurity from becoming the organising principle of political and social life.

Generation Unbound

Author : Isabel V. Sawhill
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815725590
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Generation Unbound written by Isabel V. Sawhill and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change "drifters" into "planners." In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts "planners," who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with "drifters," who are having unplanned children early and outside of marriage. These two distinct patterns are contributing to an emerging class divide and threatening social mobility in the United States. Sawhill draws on insights from the new field of behavioral economics, showing that it is possible, by changing the default, to move from a culture that accepts a high number of unplanned pregnancies to a culture in which adults only have children when they are ready to be a parent.

Shareware Heroes

Author : Richard Moss
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800181108
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Shareware Heroes written by Richard Moss and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game history Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major players – the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames – through to the significance of shareware for the ‘forgotten’ systems – the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga – when commercial game publishers turned away from them. This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups (e.g. Raptor and Tyrian) or racing games (e.g. Wacky Wheels and Skunny Kart) or RPGs (God of Thunder and Realmz), until finally, as the video game market again grew and shifted, and major publishers took control, how the shareware system faded into the background and fell from memory.

Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309138507
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other nations. Although there is a substantial literature on the potential impact of a cyberattack on the societal infrastructure of the United States, little has been written about the use of cyberattack as an instrument of U.S. policy. Cyberattacks-actions intended to damage adversary computer systems or networks-can be used for a variety of military purposes. But they also have application to certain missions of the intelligence community, such as covert action. They may be useful for certain domestic law enforcement purposes, and some analysts believe that they might be useful for certain private sector entities who are themselves under cyberattack. This report considers all of these applications from an integrated perspective that ties together technology, policy, legal, and ethical issues. Focusing on the use of cyberattack as an instrument of U.S. national policy, Technology, Policy, Law and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities explores important characteristics of cyberattack. It describes the current international and domestic legal structure as it might apply to cyberattack, and considers analogies to other domains of conflict to develop relevant insights. Of special interest to the military, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security communities, this report is also an essential point of departure for nongovernmental researchers interested in this rarely discussed topic.

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines

Author : Henrietta Heald
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783526793
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines written by Henrietta Heald and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.’ This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women’s Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel Parsons, a powerful mother and daughter duo, and Caroline Haslett, whose mission was to liberate women from domestic drudgery, it was the world’s first professional organisation dedicated to the campaign for women's rights. Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group – from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engineering and technology. It centres on the parallel but contrasting lives of the two main protagonists, Rachel Parsons and Caroline Haslett – one born to privilege and riches whose life ended in dramatic tragedy; the other who rose from humble roots to become the leading professional woman of her age and mistress of the thrilling new power of the twentieth century: electricity. In this fascinating book, acclaimed biographer Henrietta Heald also illuminates the era in which the society was founded. From the moment when women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time, and to stand for Parliament, she charts the changing attitudes to women’s rights both in society and in the workplace.

WTO

Author : Palle Krishna Rao
Publisher : Excel Books India
ISBN 13 : 9788174464309
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book WTO written by Palle Krishna Rao and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been divided into two sections for easy reading. While the first section gives the essence of WTO Agreements, the second section deals extensively with trade disputes between Member Countries including many involving India. Readers will find it easier to understand the objectives and functioning of WTO after going through the case studies, which also contain additional information on the organisation's core principles and agreements. Thus, the two sections, which can be read independent of each other, reinforce the understanding of the subject.Additional and latest information in the form of boxes, illustrations and tables has been given for a better understanding of the impact of WTO on the policies of Member Countries, and particularly that of India.A detailed glossary, 'snapshot' summaries of case studies, web-based exercises, informative annexures and an index of important words for easy reference besides a list of abbreviations have been given to enable the reader to get a comprehensive understanding of the 'complex' organisation that WTO is.This book is intended to be useful for all those who are interested in knowing more about current issues facing the World Trade Organisation, including those in academia, chambers of commerce, industry organisations and corporate houses.

Galileo Unbound

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192528505
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Galileo Unbound written by David D. Nolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.