Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future (Wadhwa Vivek)(Pevná vazba)

Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future (Wadhwa Vivek)(Pevná vazba)

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing

The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future (Wadhwa Vivek)(Paperback)

Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead--Star Trek or Mad Max? Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and

Automatic for the City: Designing for People in the Age of the Driverless Car (Bobisse Riccardo)(Pevná vazba)

How will automated vehicles change our lives? Where are the opportunities and challenges? Future streets require planning today. This timely book envisions ways in which changes to urban mobility and technology will transform city streetscapes and, importantly, how cities can prepare. It is a

Autonomy - The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World (Burns Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology? (Follows Tracey)(Pevná vazba)

In the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage. 'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Attenborough David)(Pevná vazba)

*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See

Green Tech: Solving the Climate Crisis (Harman Alice)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the technology that will save our

The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place (Crouch Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology's promises of ease,

Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures (Carey Nessa)(Paperback)

Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year. But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system

Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (Elvis Martin)(Pevná vazba)

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is asteroid exploration, for the

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Schwartz Barry)(Paperback)

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new preface from the author.Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a

Green Tech: Eco-friendly Living (Dicker Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the technology that will save our

Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic Are Accelerating the Future (Marx Edward W.)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The book focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their journey toward a digital future. It draws from

Future State 2025: How Top Technology Executives Disrupt and Drive Success in the Digital Economy (Muller Hunter)(Pevná vazba)

Identify the best technology investments and implement them rapidly Accelerating Innovation and Invention in the 21st Century Enterprise: How Top CIOs Leverage Technology to Achieve Superior Results gives CIOs an essential playbook for learning how to implement and sustain innovation and invention

The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Gerzema John)(Pevná vazba)

New York Times Bestseller How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future Among 64,000 people surveyed in thirteen nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from the

The Boy & the Bindi (Shraya Vivek)(Pevná vazba)

In this beautiful children's picture book by Vivek Shraya, author of the acclaimed God Loves Hair, a five-year-old South Asian boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, the red dot commonly worn by Hindu women to indicate the point at which creation begins, and wishes to have one of his own

How to Live Plastic Free: A Day in the Life of a Plastic Detox (Marine Conservation Society)(Pevná vazba)

Thank you for choosing this book - it shows that you care about the future of our planet.Whether you decide to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference.Let's turn the tide on plastic now - our oceans will

Power of Geography - Ten Maps That Reveals the Future of Our World (Marshall Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world

Catalogue 2.0 - The Future of the Library Catalogue(Pevná vazba)

Will there be a library catalogue in the future and, if so, what will it look like?In the last 25 years, the library catalogue has undergone an evolution, from card catalogues to OPACs, discovery systems and even linked data applications making library bibliographic data accessible on the web. At

Scary Smart - The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (Gawdat Mo)(Pevná vazba)

Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. - Mo GawdatArtificial intelligence

In Silico Dreams: How Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology Will Create the Medicines of the Future (Hilbush Brian S.)(Paperback)

Learn how AI and data science are upending the worlds of biology and medicine In Silico Dreams: How Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology Will Create the Medicines of the Future delivers an illuminating and fresh perspective on the convergence of two powerful technologies: AI and biotech

Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future (Engel Beverly)(Pevná vazba)

'A beacon of hope for women and men who fear that they will pass the abuse they have suffered on to their children, partners, or employees. Humane and compassionate but also clear and down to earth, this is a wonderful contribution to the literature on healing.' --Lundy Bancroft, author of When Dad

Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids (Doepke Matthias)(Pevná vazba)

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly

Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (Boczkowski Pablo J.)(Pevná vazba)

Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable