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...

"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...

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...

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...