This book was not written for algorithms or applause.It was written for awareness.What happens when freedom becomes filtered, safety outsourced, and truth replaced by trend?While most scroll through curated headlines and temporary outrage, something quieter—yet far more dangerous—is unfolding.Blackouts arrive unannounced. “Learning” gets you searched.And somewhere in the desert, a glowing server farm demands more water than the towns around it can drin...

As civil unrest shakes American cities and missiles fly in the Middle East, the world is slipping into a new kind of chaos—coded, connected, and collapsing.The Collapse Code: How to Survive a World Built on Fragile Systems is not about camping in the woods. It’s a tactical survival guide for those living in the digital age—where AI can make decisions faster than we can react, and power structures can shift overnight.From massive protests and wrongfully targ...

In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with advanced science being done by machines who can solve problems humans can not. AI has the potential to help us fight climate change or the next pandemic, but it also has a capac...

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides an overview of technology's impact o...

Gigatrends offers a roadmap for navigating six of the most disruptive trends shaping the future.Humanity stands at the precipice of a remarkable new era in global history filled with both immense opportunities and daunting challenges.Gigatrends examines how six disruptive trends can be harnessed to create new social, economic, and organizational solutions that will usher in the promise of a human-centered future for billions of people....

How a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality—and why you must act and adaptUnsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who...

"The Rise of AI Agents: Transforming Work and Society" by Tamer AlaaEldine examines artificial intelligence's impact on work and society, with a focus on agentic AI. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of automation's evolution and its implications for the future.The narrative begins with automation's historical context, from ancient innovations to modern technology. Through a creative thought experiment involving alien abduction of professionals, t...

Discover the technologies and trends that threaten humanity and our planet--- and how we can rein them back in, togetherIn The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need, accomplished tech entrepreneur Chris Ategeka delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of technology, society and our planet. Detailing both positive and negative technology u...

Oil, gas, and the promise of a digital futureForces of change have reconfigured the playing field for the oil and gas industry: Volatile crude oil and natural gas prices. Global recession. Pandemic. Climate change. Capital market pressures. Rising demand for renewable energy sources. To survive, companies have been compelled to adopt digital technologies to lower costs, improve productivity, attract talent, reduce emissions, and increase profits. Some believe the transformation is ...

Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category.A Top 10 Best New Management Book for 2024 (Thinkers50)Tech For Good reveals how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help solve the world’s greatest challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and poverty. Tech For Good presents a unique perspective on how business can...

The Shift Age is about humanity's new ere. As the Information Age gives way to the Shift Age, we are entering a time oftransformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. Originally published in 2007, David Houleidentifies and explains the dynamics and forces that already have reshaped and will continue to reshape our world for the next20 years. He comments from the front lines of the Shift Age on issues and topics that affect our lives...

Are robots finally replacing humans? Does the emerging age of artificial intelligence and automation mean we will soon see “peak jobs” and the need for a Universal Basic Income to support a widening swath of hapless citizens unsuited for employment in a primarily “knowledge” workforce? Improving productivity—reducing labor hours per unit of product or service—has been the hallmark of economic progress for centuries. But advances due to robots and AI, some say, will be fundamentally differe...