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Join the Science Technology Society podcast as we explore groundbreaking ideas, bridge the gap between scientific innovation and real-world applications, and connect a vibrant community passionate about shaping the future through technology. Whether you're a scientist, entrepreneur, or simply curious, discover the science that impacts your world.

In this fascinating 36-lecture exploration of scientific growth filled with ideas, anecdotes, and insights. You'll see how 20th-century scientists have built on crucial 19th-century concepts such as energy, natural selection, atoms, fields, and waves to assemble a body of knowledge to stun even the most farsighted scientific thinkers of that not-too-distant past.

In Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Of Minds and Machines, philosopher Patrick Grim traces the story of AI from ancient legends to the neural networks behind today’s breakthroughs. You see how modern systems became so powerful so quickly. You also explore the very meaning of “intelligence,” discovering how modern AI succeeds by drawing on three resources: vast datasets that let systems learn from examples; deep-learning architectures loosely modeled on the brain’s layers; and feedback loops that help models refine their behavior.

One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding biology-the intricate machinery of life-a progress to which the period we are living in right now has contributed the most.As you read these words, researchers are delving ever deeper into the workings of living systems, turning their discoveries into new medical treatments, improved methods of growing food, and innovative products that are already changing the world.

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork...

Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality. Of course, his means were disgusting and condemnable. But his message is more important than ever. If we want to thrive in an age where automation and artificial intelligence and rapidly making humans obsolete, it is our responsibility to understand and prepare for the technological machine we are up against.

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.

This is the podcast of Pedro URIA-RECIO's book "How AI Will Shape Our Future". Buy it now on Amazon or Audible."A fascinating journey into the future of AI, providing a unique perspective that combines technology, economics, geopolitics, and history." — PASCAL BORNET, Technology Influencer, 2 million followers.Written in an accessible style for all audiences, “How AI Will Shape Our Future” anchors readers in the history and evolution of Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of its trajectory. This equips readers to engage more thoughtfully with the ...

The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the 21st century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.

Casting a critical eye over the world of digital education, education futures and EdTech. Join Neil Selwyn as he talks to experts from around the world committed to new ways of thinking about digital technology and education

Turn your everyday into a masterpiece. Practical conversations on living with intention. Finding inspiration. Cultivating the skills and mindset that let you architect your life. Hosted by Bear, a free thinking world traveling sovereign individual and business executive, now art teacher delivering insights and challenges designed to help anyone create their ideal world. Episodes drop weekly. Don’t let life slip past while you are busy with other things. Join me on the journey of self-discovery and charting a course to the extraordinary!

Welcome to Living Code, a podcast where we explore the tensions between social, personal, artificial, and natural intelligence. In each episode we bring together deep thinkers at the frontier of AI, human potential, organizational transformation, and global regeneration to explore how to navigate today’s increasingly complex world.

Human development in an AI-shaped world.In a world moving faster than the human nervous system can metabolize, professional coaches are being called into something deeper.humain coaches is a sanctuary for the global coaching community, created for practitioners who understand that true transformation cannot be automated, rushed, or forced. This is not a show about "keeping up with AI." It is a space for remembering what coaching has always been: a developmental stewardship practice, held in relationship, where dignity, agency, and human becoming are protected.Hosted by Susan Caesar, a ...

Hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, was hinter den Kulissen der Life Science Branche passiert? Möchtest du wissen, wie Führungskräfte und Experten ihre Karriere gestaltet haben und welche Innovationen und Trends die Branche bewegen? Dann bist du hier im Podcast genau richtig! Egal ob du bereits in der Life Science Branche tätig bist, deinen Einstieg planst oder einfach nur neugierig bist – Life Science Society ist der Podcast für dich. Abonniere uns jetzt und verpasse keine Episode voller wertvoller Informationen und inspirierender Geschichten! Ich bin Kathrin Lamm und in jeder Episode ...

Cognitive Republic a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you. This will be the podcast version. I begins with a blunt claim: unless liberal democracies reinvent themselves, they will be out-competed by populist authoritarian alternatives. Not everywhere; not all at once; but steadily, through institutional fatigue, informational disorder, and the seductive simplicity of strongman answers.The central premise is equally blunt. Democracies that learn—truly learn—are the ones that will endure.You can ...

HiFi Preacher – The Transhumation, AI and Cosmic Religion is a philosophical and speculative podcast exploring the future of humanity at the intersection of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cosmic religion, and science-based spirituality.This show examines questions such as:What is the soul in the age of AI?Can virtual reality become a form of salvation?Is transhumanism evolving into a new religion?What does the Kardashev Scale tell us about intelligent life in the universe?Blending science, futurism, philosophy, and symbolic theology, HiFi Preacher presents ...

Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of - for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation - that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data.

Information Technology Law is the ideal companion for a course of study on IT law and the ways in which it is evolving in response to rapid technological and social change. The fourth edition of this groundbreaking textbook develops its unique examination of the legal processes and their relationship to the modern "information society". Charting the development of the rapid digitization of society and its impact on established legal principles, Murray examines the challenges faced with enthusiasm and clarity.

Von der Sonnenuhr zum Fischer-Dübel: Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten. Von einem Cembalo aus dem Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts über den Benz-Patent-Motorwagen Nr. 1 und die Aufnahme Röntgens von der Hand seiner Frau bis zu einer Recyclingtasche und dem mRNA-Impfstoff gegen COVID-19 von BioNTech – jedes dieser 100 Objekte erzählt seine Geschichte auf mehreren Ebenen.