A Whole Generation and the New Industrial Revolution
YOUTHQUAKE 4.0: A book which targets corporate boards, CEOs, executives and middle management from businesses, government and not-for-profit organisations, who are seeking a strategic reference for designing and executing growth and digital transformation strategies.
UNREASON: Exploring Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Extraordinary Claims is a collection of forty-five of the best articles the legendary Skeptical Inquirer magazine has published in the past decade. Featuring articles from writers including Neil deGrasse Tyson on the process of science, Richard Dawkins on the standards of truth, Elizabeth Loftus ......
The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour's Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence.
On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou
Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.
Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Despite its current and potential benefits, AI is little understood by the larger public and widely feared. In this compelling and readable book, two experts discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence - and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia.
Philosophy, Religions, and Policy in an Engineered World
This edited volume transcends technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how science, technology, and engineering have transformed human experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics, religion, and policy.
How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial
This incisive and important book investigates the creation and history of our financial Internet, the vulnerabilities of our current data storage and sharing platforms, the pitfalls and potential that cryptocurrency holds, the promise that quantum computing and the blockchain offer, and how we can - and must - make a stronger and safer Internet.
UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth?! Now it's time to get the facts!Did a "flying saucer" really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? Have humans been abducted by aliens?In an ......
A landmark work. Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to learn to be a good skeptic. In this widely acclaimed and highly controversial book, Paul Kurtz examines the reasons why people accept supernatural and paranormal belief systems in spite of substantial evidence to the contrary. According to the author, it is because there is within the ......
