Cyborgs@cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future
ISBN: 9780415915595 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative analysis of technology is presented from a cultural perspective. The author argues that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings and calls for a fundamental rethinking of the traditional separation.
This innovative analysis of technology is presented from a cultural perspective. The author argues that humans have always been technological as well ...
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A Future for Everyone: Innovative Social Responsibility and Community Partnerships
ISBN: 9780415944526 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in A Future for Everyone discuss the many ways to foster innovative and unprecedented collaborations leading to more effective partnerships between major institutions and corporations to poor and disenfranchised communities. Each original essay examines many of today's pressing issues: bridging the digital divide; community reinvestment; university and corporate partnerships; and corporate responsibility. From academics and students to nonprofit managers and community leaders to consultants and business professionals, this timely collection brings in voices from all angles that...
The essays in A Future for Everyone discuss the many ways to foster innovative and unprecedented collaborations leading to more effective partnerships...
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709,42 zł |
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
ISBN: 9780452288669 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon
An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology, environment, terrorism, population, and medicine to help companies and individuals prepare for the coming complex and volatile global changes, including: -How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet -How astounding medicine trends will enhance people's lives -How the rise of China will bring on a new global... A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon
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High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
ISBN: 9780465070107 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread: we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. Our difficulties belong...
In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we t...
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126,48 zł |
The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory--The New Physics of Information
ISBN: 9780471399742 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funny, clear, deep, and right on target. Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.
-K. C. Cole, author of The Universe and the Teacup ""An eager, ambitious book. A stimulating, accessible introduction to scientific theory."" -Dallas Morning News An award-winning journalist surveys the horizon of a new revolution in science Everything in the universe, from the molecules in our bodies to the heart of a black hole, is made up of bits of information. This is the radical idea at the center of the new physics of information,... Funny, clear, deep, and right on target. Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.
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Visions of the Future: Chemistry and Life Science
ISBN: 9780521805391 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does the future of science hold? Who is making the discoveries that will help shape this future? What areas of research show the greatest promise? Find definitive and insightful answers to such questions as these in the three volumes of Visions of the Future: Astronomy and Earth Science, Chemistry and Life Science, and Physics and Electronics. Representing a careful selection of authoritative articles published in a special issue of Philosophical Transactions--the world's longest-running scientific journal--the chapters explore such themes as:
What does the future of science hold? Who is making the discoveries that will help shape this future? What areas of research show the greatest promise...
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The Long Boom
ISBN: 9780738203645 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Washington Post called The Long Boom "a future-history and a challenge"-and that is exactly what it is: the story of the world's future, powered by emerging technologies, and a political vision that can help realize an era of unprecedented growth and opportunity. The Long Boom urges everyone to recognize that global prosperity, a sustainable environment, broad social progress, and even radically extended lifespans are very possible-if not probable-in the 20 years to come.
The Washington Post called The Long Boom "a future-history and a challenge"-and that is exactly what it is: the story of the world's future, powered b...
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94,44 zł |
Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
ISBN: 9780745326610 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game.'Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box.'Imaginary Futures gives insight into how the dominant utopias of today were shaped in the time of the Cold War...
Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly doc...
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453,39 zł |
Parliament of Science a: Science for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780791458143 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on interviews with eighteen prominent scientists and public policymakers from around the globe, A Parliament of Science provides a rich overview of the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology in the twenty-first century. What can we hope for? What must we fear? How can scientists, civil society, and politicians work together to harness science and technology into a power for the good of all humanity? Those interviewed speak candidly of their passions, hopes, and concerns as they explore the scientific and policy implications of the major issues of our time,...
Based on interviews with eighteen prominent scientists and public policymakers from around the globe, A Parliament of Science provides a rich overview...
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132,17 zł |
Surpassing Ourselves: An Enquiry Into the Nature and Implications of Expertise
ISBN: 9780812692051 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the nature of expert knowledge, the part that shows and the much larger part that is hidden, and offers an explanation of how it comes about. Hard work, practice, and experience are not enough to make an expert.
Examines the nature of expert knowledge, the part that shows and the much larger part that is hidden, and offers an explanation of how it comes about....
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The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision
ISBN: 9780813335452 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie argues that as crucibles for creative, social, and political interaction, vital cities are an organic and necessary part of human civilization. If we are to rescue them from dispersal and decay, we must first revise our definition of what constitutes a city.Unlike many who believe that we must choose between cities and suburbs, between mass transit and highways, between monolithic highrises and panoramic vistas, Safdie envisions a way to have it...
In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie ar...
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217,84 zł |
Life in a Technocracy: What It Might Be Like
ISBN: 9780815603801 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work from 1933 expounds on the merits of creating a utopian society through technocracy, predicting the future of art, education, religion and government under the leadership of technical professionals. It encompasses the social and economic theories of the pre-depression era.
This work from 1933 expounds on the merits of creating a utopian society through technocracy, predicting the future of art, education, religion and go...
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90,42 zł |
Higher Education in Transition: The Challenges of the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780897896375 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the state of higher education at century's end and the challenges awaiting it in the next millennium. It assesses changes in the student population, the role of faculty, spending patterns, government support, the role of intercollegiate athletics, the nature of presidential leadership, and the impact of technological change. This volume is a call to educators, parents, and taxpayers alike to enter into a dialogue about the future directions of higher education that they are willing to support. Because in the last few decades higher education has attempted to extend... This book explores the state of higher education at century's end and the challenges awaiting it in the next millennium. It assesses changes in the... |
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The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
ISBN: 9781565845695 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines how vast amounts of personal information are finding their way into corporate hands. It argues that once there, this data can be combined and used to develope electronic profiles of individuals and groups that are potentially more detailed and intrusive.
This work examines how vast amounts of personal information are finding their way into corporate hands. It argues that once there, this data can be co...
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I in the Sky: Visions of the Information Future
ISBN: 9781579582623 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains personal predictions of the future by 41 professionals working in fields highly impacted by information technology, including journalists, lawyers, librarians, writers, and researchers. They speculate on such matters as the impact of information technology on business, the economy, and management and more.
This volume contains personal predictions of the future by 41 professionals working in fields highly impacted by information technology, including jou...
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The Salvaging of Civilization: A Probable Future of Mankind
ISBN: 9781585092741 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An extremely important philosophical and political book which concerned people throughout the world, include world leaders, should pay attention to. Wells was a visionary and genius who knew the strengths and weaknesses of men's minds and the proclivities of human nature. He could see where the world needed to be going immediately after the devastation of World War I and, in effect, where it still needs to be going today in order to thrive. He predicts for the future how a political reorganization must take place with the world as a unity, and how the general masses lack any will... An extremely important philosophical and political book which concerned people throughout the world, include world leaders, should pay attention to... |
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Statistical Physics on the Eve of the 21st Century: In Honour of J B McGuire on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
ISBN: 9789810236786 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of original papers and reviews in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics. The broad range of articles offers a timely perspective on the current status of statistical mechanics, identifying both recent results as well as future challenges. The work contains a number of overviews of standard topics such as exactly solved lattice models and their various applications in statistical physics, from models of strongly correlated electrons to the conformational properties of polymer chains. It is equally wide ranging in...
This volume is a collection of original papers and reviews in honour of James McGuire, one of the pioneers of integrable models in statistical physics...
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861,44 zł |
Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality
ISBN: 9780230607859 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around fun. Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? Exodus... Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mot... |
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90,14 zł |
India of My Dreams
ISBN: 9788171886890 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From senior cabinet ministers and captains of industry to internationally acclaimed economists and provocative journalists, India's most respected individuals came together for this unique collection of essays. The accounts discuss the sharing glimpses of what India could, and hopefully will, be. The range of topics and the breadth of vision will provoke academics, economists, innovators, and others to explore the country's future.
From senior cabinet ministers and captains of industry to internationally acclaimed economists and provocative journalists, India's most respected ind...
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304,04 zł |
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781844074747 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. It examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics.
Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philo...
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684,09 zł |