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2012., General, Free Press Call No: 303.48 D537f Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
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2015., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 364.168 G653f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An FBI futurist and senior advisor to Interpol analyzes the digital underground to reveal the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you.
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2002., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 303.4 S857f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1999., Thorndike Press Call No: LP 337 F911L Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1998., IQ Call No: FR 303.4833 L695l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Collection Collectif
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2018., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 418.4019 W853r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Draws on the author's extensive research from "Proust and the Squid" to consider the future of the reading brain and its capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection in today's highly digitized world.
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By Jahren, Hope[2020]., Adult, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: 363.73 J25s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--
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2019., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Call No: 302 R952t Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Team Human is a manifestoa fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work togethernot as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff's own words: zBeing social may be the whole point.y Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanitytogetherwe can make the world a better place to be human.
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-- Our obsession with the future.[2015], Seven Stories Press Call No: 973.93 N667t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Tech bloggers livecast the launch of the latest Kindle, crowds form serpentine lines outside of Apple stores on the eve of new iPhone releases, stock markets surge and recede on rumours of what Intel and Microsoft have in the pipeline, and, on college campuses across the country, universities offer master's degrees in Future Studies. Meet futurist consultants who preach the need for constant change, to a fourth-generation New Jersey dairy farmer grappling with the increasing complexities of a once-bucolic industry, to a group of Stanford undergraduates pulling all-nighters in an effort to produce the next must-have app. Through these characters and others, Niedzviecki shows how future-obsession and future-anxiety are affecting real people. Print run 20,000.
