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"With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to...
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For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, "On Robustness and Fragility," which offers tools to navigate and...
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We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth--an economy where the goal is not more but enough. They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more--all...
4) Futurecast: how superpowers, populations, and globalization will change the way you live and work
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"In Futurecast, Robert Shapiro, former U.S. under secretary of commerce, tells us what our world will look like in the year 2020. Though that year seems close at hand, Shapiro foresees monumental changes caused by three forces - globalization, aging societies, and the rise of America as a sole superpower. What jobs will there be for you and your children? What will happen to your health care? How safe will you be? The answers will depend, even more...
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