Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Computadores e Tecnologia

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.

Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use.

While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying to figure out what they can and can't do. Some want to bring innovation to a standstill (or at least to slow it down) through lawsuits and regulation so they can catch their breath. Larry Downes provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.

Since the birth of civilization, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximize agricultural production and cater to our tastes in pets. The observation of the creation of artificial animal and plant variants was a key stimulant for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The ability to directly engineer the genomes of organisms first became possible in the 1970s, when the gene for human insulin was introduced into bacteria.

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) steht für Maschinen, die können, was der Mensch kann: hören und sehen, sprechen, lernen, Probleme lösen. In manchem sind sie inzwischen nicht nur schneller, sondern auch besser als der Mensch. Wie funktionieren diese klugen Maschinen? Bedrohen sie uns, machen sie uns gar überflüssig? Die Journalistin und KI-Expertin Manuela Lenzen erklärt anschaulich, was künstliche Intelligenz kann und was uns erwartet. Künstliche Intelligenz ist das neue Zauberwort des digitalen Kapitalismus. Intelligente Computersysteme stellen medizinische Diagnosen und geben Rechtsberatung.

Eine Geschichte von der Revolution unseres Gesundheitssystems, intelligenten Maschinen in der Industrie und Algorithmen, die unser Liebesleben bestimmen: "Herzlich Willkommen im Daten­gefängnis" bietet eine umfassende Übersicht rund um das Thema Big Data. Es beleuchtet anschaulich die Zukunft, in der wir schon heute leben, und entführt den Leser in die spannende Welt der Daten, die uns mehr und mehr umgibt.

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed modern age.

What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.

We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There's more knowledge than ever, of course, but it's different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything.Yet this is the greatest time in history to be a knowledge seeker - if you know how.

Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos.

ChatGPTと著者が二人三脚で執筆！「今の仕事にAIをどう使うか？　考え方一つで「AIの奴隷になるか、AIを奴隷にするか」くらいの大きな違いが出てくる」

コロナ禍で浸透した授業や会議等をオンラインで済ませる新しい習慣は利便性が高い一方で、脳を「ダメ」にする危険性も指摘されている。その悪影響とは――

In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology. The Nature of Technology is an elegant and powerful theory of technology's origins and evolution. It achieves for the progress of technology what Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for scientific progress.

In this practical guide to successful grantseeking, Alan Silver draws on 30 years of experience to help listeners formulate strategies for winning grants for individuals, nonprofits, and agencies. Concisely written and easy to follow, How to Win Grants demonstrates a three-stage grant development model distilled into 101 actionable strategies, arranged in order of execution and supplemented by helpful checklists

A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these "superhuman" traits could trigger. Biotechnology is moving fast. In the coming decades, advanced pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetic interventions will be used not only to heal the sick but to boost human physical and mental performance to unprecedented levels.

With security scares like the Heartbleed bug (which compromised even supposedly safe internet behemoths like Google and Yahoo!) becoming more commonplace, this book is a must-listen for anybody who values their privacy in a wired world.

Warum wir uns freiwillig unterwerfen. Ein kleiner Kreis von gleichgesinnten überreichen CEO's aus Silicon Valley und aus China spielt derzeit Gott und arbeitet daran, alles zu automatisieren, was automatisiert werden kann. Und wir alle spielen mit, wickeln unser Berufs-, Sozial- und Liebesleben mit ihren Algorithmen ab und werden zu ihren Komplizen. Was nur macht diese Faszination aus?, fragt Internetexpertin Gisela Schmalz. Warum lassen wir eine Fremdbestimmung durch technologiekontrollierende Machtcliquen überhaupt zu?

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

Ninteen ninety-four, Northern California. The Internet is just emerging from its origins in the military and university research labs. Groups of idealistic technologists, recognizing its potential as a tool for liberation and solidarity, are working feverishly to build the network. In the early chat rooms of one such gathering, soon-to-become-famous as The WELL, a Stanford futurist named Tom Mandel creates a new conference. In a topic headed "Local Bug Report", he asks for advice from fellow online participants about how he might shake off a persistent hacking cough.

Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain. In Black Code, Ronald J. Deibert, a leading expert on digital technology, security, and human rights, lifts the lid on cyberspace and shows what's at stake for Internet users and citizens.