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Tomorrow's People and New Technology

Author : Felix Dodds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000467678
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow's People and New Technology written by Felix Dodds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by the emergence of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between the physical, the digital, and the biological worlds. This book allows readers to explore how these technologies will impact peoples’ lives by 2030. It helps readers to not only better understand the use and implications of emerging technologies, but also to imagine how their individual life will be shaped by them. The book provides an opportunity to see the great potential but also the threats and challenges presented by the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, posing questions for the reader to think about what future they want. Emerging technologies, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, big data and analytics, cloud computing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, fifth-generation wireless technologies (5G), and fully autonomous vehicles, among others, will have a significant impact on every aspect of our lives, as such this book looks at their potential impact in the entire spectrum of daily life, including home life, travel, education and work, health, entertainment and social life. Providing an indication of what the world might look like in 2030, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers interested in the nexus between emerging technologies and sustainable development, politics and society, and global governance.

Tomorrow's People

Author : Susan Greenfield
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926082
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow's People written by Susan Greenfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an exploration of how this century is going to change not just the way we think, but also what we actually think with - our own individual minds. How will new technologies transform the way we see the world? At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be standing on the brink of a mind make-over far more cataclysmic than anything that has happened before. As we appreciate the dynamism and sensitivity of our brain circuitry, so the prospect of directly tampering with the essence of our individuality becomes a possibility.

Power to the People

Author : Audrey Kurth Cronin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190882166
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Power to the People written by Audrey Kurth Cronin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state. In recent years, states have attempted to stem the flow of such weapons to individuals and non-state groups, but their efforts are failing. As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is an exacerbation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of advances in technologies combined with changes in who can use them. Indeed, accessible innovations in destructive force have long driven new patterns of political violence. When Nobel invented dynamite and Kalashnikov designed the AK-47, each inadvertently spurred terrorist and insurgent movements that killed millions and upended the international system. That history illuminates our own situation, in which emerging technologies are altering society and redistributing power. The twenty-first century "sharing economy" has already disrupted every institution, including the armed forces. New "open" technologies are transforming access to the means of violence. Just as importantly, higher-order functions that previously had been exclusively under state military control - mass mobilization, force projection, and systems integration - are being harnessed by non-state actors. Cronin closes by focusing on how to respond so that we both preserve the benefits of emerging technologies yet reduce the risks. Power, in the form of lethal technology, is flowing to the people, but the same technologies that empower can imperil global security - unless we act strategically.

Unnatural Selection

Author : Peter Healey
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773661
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Peter Healey and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tomorrow's Table

Author : Pamela C. Ronald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199742421
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow's Table written by Pamela C. Ronald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must be a better way to meet the need for increased food production. Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. The reader sees the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses. They learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. This book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices. It is also for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment.

Vintage Tomorrows

Author : James H. Carrott
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449337953
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Vintage Tomorrows written by James H. Carrott and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that’s captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world. Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk’s vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology. Steampunk is everywhere—as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.

The Organisation of Tomorrow

Author : Mark Van Rijmenam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000007677
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organisation of Tomorrow written by Mark Van Rijmenam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organisation of Tomorrow presents a new model of doing business and explains how big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence force us to rethink existing business models and develop organisations that will be ready for human-machine interactions. It also asks us to consider the impacts of these emerging information technologies on people and society. Big data analytics empowers consumers and employees. This can result in an open strategy and a better understanding of the changing environment. Blockchain enables peer-to-peer collaboration and trustless interactions governed by cryptography and smart contracts. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence allows for new and different levels of intensity and involvement among human and artificial actors. With that, new modes of organising are emerging: where technology facilitates collaboration between stakeholders; and where human-to-human interactions are increasingly replaced with human-to-machine and even machine-to-machine interactions. This book offers dozens of examples of industry leaders such as Walmart, Telstra, Alibaba, Microsoft and T-Mobile, before presenting the D2 + A2 model – a new model to help organisations datafy their business, distribute their data, analyse it for insights and automate processes and customer touchpoints to be ready for the data-driven and exponentially-changing society that is upon us This book offers governments, professional services, manufacturing, finance, retail and other industries a clear approach for how to develop products and services that are ready for the twenty-first century. It is a must-read for every organisation that wants to remain competitive in our fast-changing world.

Bodies of Tomorrow

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802090524
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Tomorrow written by Sherryl Vint and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies of Tomorrow argues for the importance of challenging visions of humanity in the future that overlook our responsibility as embodied beings connected to a material world.

Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow

Author : Robert Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow written by Robert Olson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow is a collection of essays by leading scientists, technologists, and environmentalists that examines the nature of these changes, their environmental implications, and possible strategies for the transition to a sustainable future." --Book Jacket.

Five Regions of the Future

Author : Joel Arthur Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Five Regions of the Future written by Joel Arthur Barker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futurists Erickson and Barker offer a bold new way of looking at today's rapidly evolving technologies: as five distinct "ecosystems" that each operates with a distinct set of values, advantages, and disadvantages.

People Analytics

Author : Ben Waber
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0133158330
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book People Analytics written by Ben Waber and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover powerful hidden social "levers" and networks within your company... then, use that knowledge to make slight "tweaks" that dramatically improve both business performance and employee fulfillment! In People Analytics, MIT Media Lab innovator Ben Waber shows how sensors and analytics can give you an unprecedented understanding of how your people work and collaborate, and actionable insights for building a more effective, productive, and positive organization. Through cutting-edge case studies, Waber shows how: Changing the way call center employees spent their breaks increased performance by 25% while significantly reducing stress Quantifying the failure of marketing and customer service to communicate led to a more cohesive and profitable organization Tweaking the balance of in-person and electronic communication can enhance the value of both Sensor data can help you discover who your internal experts really are Identifying employees involved in "creative" behaviors can help you promote innovation throughout your business Sensors and simulations can help you optimize your sick-day policies Measuring informal interactions can improve the chances that a merger, acquisition, or "mega-project" will succeed Drawing on his cutting-edge work at MIT and Harvard, Waber addresses crucial issues ranging from technology to privacy, revealing what will be possible in a few years, and what you can achieve right now. In bringing the power of analytics to organizational development, he offers immense new opportunities to everyone with responsibility for workplace performance.

The Great Questions of Tomorrow

Author : David Rothkopf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150111994X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Great Questions of Tomorrow written by David Rothkopf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the world at the threshold of profound changes, the question becomes: Where are the philosophers? Where are the great thinkers of today? Where is the next Jefferson, Curie, or Mandela? Which technologies and changes in the nature of life will they harness, embrace, or be inspired by? As the world's center of gravity has shifted over the centuries from Europe and then to the US, so too has the center of intellectual gravity. With that center shifting to Asia and also to the emerging world, will those places produce the transformational thinkers of the twenty-first century? Embarking on an around-the-world search, David Rothkopf strives to answer these questions, uncovering what the next big ideas are and where they're emerging. Who are the people behind the ideas, and how they will be colored by their place and culture of origins?

Are You Ready to Change the World?

Author : S a James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781701940116
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Are You Ready to Change the World? written by S a James and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about changing the world, being a rebel and having a go. It's about how we recognise the need for shifts and summon the courage to make those changes, starting at the smallest level and eventually revolutionising the very way we lead our teams, our companies and our world. I've often had people, in work and in life, tell me it seemed I was trying to change the world. I would get ahead of them and, sometimes, myself with wild ideas, and they'd encourage me to slow down, break it down so they could understand where my brain was headed. This would frustrate me when I was younger, but not so much now. Now I'm proud to think big -- and changing the world seems a great place to start. Hence the title for this book.As one of Australia's leading female technologists, I've spent my career looking to the future. I've helped more than 40 companies adjust to the information revolution of the last 20 years. I've supported business leaders looking for ways to survive the turmoil of the digital age and position their companies for growth and prosperity, with an ever-watchful eye toward what's next. Along the way, I've learned a little something about leadership, about what society needs to achieve to be, not only successful, but sustainable. It's clear to me now, as reports about climate change, geopolitical turmoil and global pandemic fill our daily news feeds, that the future is no longer a given. Change at all levels must happen to ensure we even have a tomorrow, let alone the bright one we have the potential to create if we combine good leadership with the amazing technologies in development right now. It's my hope that the insights I provide here, based on my personal experiences and many years working in the field, will help prepare and inspire you to face the challenges the present demands. Now more than ever, we need to lead radically, think differently and bring together diverse teams of people with a range of personalities and perspectives to make real change. Let this book guide you in thinking about the world today and the world we could create tomorrow -- one unlike anything we've known before, where humans and technology become even more closely entwined and a new type of leader answers the call.

From Yesterday to Tomorrow

Author : Janet Toland
Publisher : IT Professionals New Zealand
ISBN 13 : 0473581760
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From Yesterday to Tomorrow written by Janet Toland and published by IT Professionals New Zealand. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative source of the history of computing and technology in Aotearoa New Zealand, put together on the 60th Anniversary of IT Professionals New Zealand. With 634 pages across 37 chapters, each chapter drills into a different part of the development of computing, written by a recognised national or international expert in each field. Chapter authors include experts such as Professor Tim Bell looking at education development, RedShield Founder Andy Prow looking at Cybersecurity, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards looking at technology challenges around privacy and so much more. The book incorporates the full Looking Back to Tomorrow book, written during IT Professionals NZ (ITPNZ)’s 25th Anniversary, Return to Tomorrow, written during the 50th anniversary, and 15 new chapters written in 2021 to mark ITPNZ’s 60th Anniversary. Chapters include: The clandestine computer on The Terrace - Brian E Carpenter Telecommunications infrastructure: Entering the fibre era - Bill Bennett Primary, secondary and tertiary computing education in Aotearoa New Zealand - Tim Bell A new environment for digital start-ups - Chris Gardner A history of digital accessibility in Aotearoa - Chandra Harrison Speed and stability: Redefining IT with DevOps - BMK Lakshminarayan The future of testing? Challenges in application automation testing - Adesh Pednekar Indian IT professionals in New Zealand - Sunit Prakash & Lalita Kasanji 60 years of cybersecurity in New Zealand - Andy Prow Advances in Agile software development - Diane Strode Fragments of the Real Me: National identity in New Zealand – Richard Williams Challenging technologies: Perspectives from the Privacy Commissioner - John Edwards & Lauren Bennett Te Hīkoi Roa: A journey of Māori towards information technology mastery - Robyn Kāmira Re-connecting the public service: Openness and data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic - Jon MacKay Making New Zealand’s cities smarter - Mark Thomas A history of ICT: Selected highlights - Henry B Wolfe From Eftpos to Trade Me: The growth of electronic commerce - Janet Toland Triumph and disaster: The tumultuous history of health IT - Ray Delany Computing in local government - Jim Higgins ICT in New Zealand universities, 1985–2010 - Neil James & Marjan Lousberg Progeni, 1968–89: Success and failure - Perce Harpham Building digital communities: A history of the 2020 Communications Trust - Laurence Zwimpfer The digitisation of New Zealand’s research, heritage and culture - Nigel Stanger Hobbyist computing in 1980s New Zealand: Games and the popular reception of microcomputers - Melanie Swalwell Early days in school programming competitions - Derham McAven Hypermedia’s influence on business and social interaction - Lesley A Gardner The open source business in New Zealand - Johnny Chan Aotearoa before the computer - W Winiata From monsters to micros - GJ Tee The impact of computers on the public sector - AC Shailes, Controller and Auditor-General 1975–1983 Computers and banking - IH Archibald Computers in business and industry - SJ Bell Expert systems and their impact on the professions - WR Williams Personal computers - Selwyn Arrow Computers in education - CJ Potter The social implications of computers - Paul Bieleski & Jim Higgins A new industry for New Zealand - MS Kaiser

Films from the Future

Author : Andrew Maynard
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633539067
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Films from the Future written by Andrew Maynard and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.

Eating Tomorrow

Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974231
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Eating Tomorrow written by Timothy A. Wise and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

Beyond the Valley

Author : Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539608
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Valley written by Ramesh Srinivasan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America, and elsewhere, visiting the “design labs” of rural, low-income, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.