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In the next decade, five billion new people will come online, posing for our world a host of new opportunities and dangers. Google s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen traveled to thirty-five countries, including some of the world s most volatile regions and met with political leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists to learn firsthand about the challenges they face. Packed with fascinating ideas, informed predictions, and prescient warnings, The New Digital Age tackles some of the toughest questions about our future: how will technology change the way we approach issues like...

Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music.

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Slogans such as "Let's put Christ back into Christmas" or "Jesus is the Reason for the Season" hold an appeal to Christians who oppose the commercializing of events they hold sacred. However, through a close look at the rise of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt show us that commercial appropriations of these occasions were as religious in form as they were secular. The rituals of America's holiday bazaar that emerged in the nineteenth century offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane--a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift-giving, profits and...

In seinem letzten Buch erforscht Politik-Legende Henry Kissinger zusammen mit dem ehemaligen Google-CEO Eric Schmidt und dem früheren Microsoft-Topmanager Craig Mundie die epochalen Herausforderungen und Chancen der Revolution der künstlichen Intelligenz. KI wird uns helfen, enorme Krisen zu bewältigen - vom Klimawandel über geopolitische Konflikte bis hin zur Einkommensungleichheit. Aber sie bedroht auch unser unabhängiges Urteilsvermögen und unsere Handlungsfähigkeit. Dieses Buch zeichnet einen Weg jenseits von blindem Glauben und ungerechtfertigter Angst und skizziert eine...

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of...