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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today’s spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book will dissect how...

“Artificially Human” is your guide to making sense of automation and artificial intelligence (AI). The book provides eight mental models to unscramble the flurry of technological breakthroughs and hyperbolic headlines. If you’re feeling left behind, you’re not alone.Rob Whiteman launched an automation service line at McKinsey & Company in 2016, growing it to more than 150 practitioners in a few years. This book is based on his experiences advising more than 200 institutions, includ...

Mapping accurately the future is no longer a storytelling fantasy; rather, a workplace of data scientists, programmers or analysts.With a background in engineering and as an estimator, Ion Sorland presents a book that explores in the present, a future scenario of human civilization on Earth and beyond, based on information and observations from the past.The interdisciplinary content gathered and described in the book seeks to build a panoramic view of how t...

Humanity is on the verge of new global changes. Over the past few decades, we have made a powerful technological breakthrough, but we have not changed our habits. Now, the circumstances are forcing us to do it. Can anyone remember a time when people all over the world couldn't leave their house for a few weeks in a row? Are modern technologies ready for us to stay home forever? How will life change after the quarantine? Where will technological progress take us in another 30 years?