Today machines can outplay us at chess, perform surgeries, manage airports, design buildings, act in films. Soon they'll compete with us in nearly every field. Will this cause mass layoffs and riots? Or will these robotic workers usher in a paradise of wealth and leisure for us all? "Are Humans Obsolete?" takes you on a witty, no-holds-barred tour of the next few decades, when machines will do everything we can, and do it better, yet we can gain the advantage Part One takes a brisk march through this strange future, with insights on ways we can stay in control and not get left behind. Part...
Today machines can outplay us at chess, perform surgeries, manage airports, design buildings, act in films. Soon they'll compete with us in nearly eve...
In the realm of vampire fiction, we meet dangerous, romantic, exotic beings - in a word, they're extraordinary. But what if a perfectly ordinary person became a vampire? Would his undead existence be ... ordinary? Hardly. THE VAMPIRE IN FREE FALL takes us on a roller-coaster ride of adventure as our "ordinary" night stalker finds himself caught up in espionage, murder for hire, grand theft and bloody revenge. The dangers of his tour as a soldier in Vietnam quickly pale against the car chases, street fights, burglaries and contract killings of his new life as a blood-drinking assassin-spy....
In the realm of vampire fiction, we meet dangerous, romantic, exotic beings - in a word, they're extraordinary. But what if a perfectly ordinary perso...
As an organization, you set your profit objectives but the customer sets the price. Most organizations battle customer requests or demands for price reductions. The successful ones develop and propose cost cuts before the customer can ask. Join Brad Hart, the CEO of Roberts Tool Company, as he and Jim Hull explain the essence of his company's transformation. The approach taken by RTC allowed them not just to get more work, but to build a continual flow of the right work to build the business, increase sales and ensure both customer satisfaction and profit. You'll learn the essential steps to...
As an organization, you set your profit objectives but the customer sets the price. Most organizations battle customer requests or demands for price r...
MUDVILLE-what a sad state it was in. Casey, the town's great baseball hero, had swung beautifully and mightily at the final pitch, only to have the ball disappear into the soft folds of the waiting catcher's mitt. Game over The agony of defeat cuts so deep.
In his immortal poem, "Casey at the Bat," Ernest Thayer pulled the proverbial rug out from beneath our feet. Just when it seemed certain Casey would win it all, all is lost. But Thayer once said, "hope springs eternal within the human breast." Perhaps there can be another day, perhaps there can be another game, and perhaps there may...
MUDVILLE-what a sad state it was in. Casey, the town's great baseball hero, had swung beautifully and mightily at the final pitch, only to have the...
