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According to estimates, the healthcare AI market will grow to over $45 billion by 2026. Now is the time for everyone involved, including medical consumers and entrepreneurs, to understand and embrace the AI in healthcare revolution. AI continues to advance at breakneck speeds. Nowhere else is AI moving faster than in the health care sector, where it’s being used to improve millions of lives at every point in the healthcare system. In this book, you will take a deep dive into the remarkable strides that AI is making.

Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system. In Palo Alto, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did.

Nicht die Dauer der Mediennutzung ist das Problem, sondern die Inhalte, die Kinder konsumieren. Schon Grundschüler sind Bildern von Gewalt, Pornographie und Rassismus ausgesetzt. Eine Schulleiterin schlägt Alarm! "Wissen Sie, was Ihr Kind auf seinem Smartphone sieht?" Diese Frage stellt Silke Müller ahnungslosen Eltern auf Infoveranstaltungen ihrer Schule. Die Fotos, Sticker und Videos, die sie dann zeigt, sind so verstörend, dass kaum jemand hinsehen kann.

Vielfach täglich ziehen Bildschirme unseren Blick auf sich. Und so nehmen wir vieles auf, was uns ablenkt, beeinflusst oder gar manipuliert. Auch unsere Kinder sind diesen Einflüssen ausgesetzt. Aber im Gegensatz zu uns stehen sie der starken Wirkung von dem, was über Bildschirme an uns herangetragen wird unwissend und schutzlos gegenüber. Wenn wir Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft erkennen und verstehen lernen wollen, und wenn wir Kindern helfen wollen, konstruktiv mit Bildschirmen leben zu lernen, so müssen wir über diese technischen Errungenschaften und ihre Wirkung Bescheid wissen.

The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can't be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement--threatening the very idea of justice and its role in society. The attack on the Capitol building following the 2020...

The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal," where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it's going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job—and business—destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the "Roaring 2020s."

Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore. “A weirdly practical approach to some ancient...

Immaginiamo un futuro in cui sapiens supertecnologici controlleranno, con le loro intelligenze aumentate, il mondo; mentre altri sapiens desueti, saranno relegati a un ruolo marginale. Uno scenario solo fantascientifico?Oggi l'intelligenza artificiale, le neuroscienze, le nanotecnologie, la genetica modificano in modo sempre più vertiginoso il rapporto tra l'uomo e la natura. Nella storia dell'umanità sta succedendo qualcosa che potrebbe anche portare alla fine di Homo sapiens.

Obra-prima em termos de pensamento original e pesquisa, A era do capitalismo de vigilância, de Shoshana Zuboff, apresenta ideias alarmantes sobre o fenômeno que ela nomeou capitalismo de vigilância. Os riscos não poderiam ser maiores: uma arquitetura global de modificação comportamental ameaça impactar a humanidade no século XXI de forma tão radical quanto o capitalismo industrial desfigurou o mundo natural no século XX.

In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynasties claiming divine assent ruled for more than 2000 years. Borders shifted, and emperors struggled to exert control over every region of their territories. Elites held that they were inheritors of a rich, pre-imperial culture, while their society produced world-changing inventions such as the compass, printing, gunpowder and the gun. Imperial China itself was altered as it came into contact with others through trade, exploration and war.

How much do you know about your favorite videogame console or any other non-handheld console? Would you like to know more about video game history? If you want to know more about some of the greatest consoles ever, don’t worry, I'll tell you everything I know about them. In this videogame book you will find the history of non-handheld videogame consoles and their evolution, hope you enjoy this video game guide book I prepared for you!

En esta monumental historia, Vaclav Smil ofrece una impresionante panorámica de cómo la energía ha impulsado el progreso cultural y económico de las sociedades humanas durante los últimos diez mil años, desde los primeros grupos de cazadores-recolectores hasta la civilización fósil, pasando por las sociedades agrícolas tradicionales y la "gran transición" que lo cambió todo.

Eric Goles, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, será nuestro guía en esta apasionante aventura que nos muestra cómo a partir de una pregunta filosófica, ¿qué es la verdad?, concebimos el computador que hoy nos conduce hasta los desafíos de la inteligencia artificial.

Pedro Carvalho es Pato Aviador, uno de los perfiles de referencia en temas de aviación en redes sociales. Con casi 70.000 seguidores en Twitter, el autor del éxito Algo espantoso está a punto de ocurrir desmenuza en este nuevo libro los accidentes aéreos más terribles, esos que han traído de cabeza a los investigadores, pero que han permitido hacer grandes cambios en la industria para que estas tragedias no vuelvan a suceder. Porque los accidentes aéreos -insiste Carvalho- no ocurren en vano.

Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh. In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the...

Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control.

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On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge. Unable to stop or see where he was going, Lerro drove the ship into a support pier.

The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the dangers, we enjoy its temporary pleasures, unaware of the damage to our souls. Jay Kim's Analog Church explored the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church. In Analog Christian, he asks the same question of Christian discipleship.

【第17回出版甲子園　審査員大絶賛！】鬼の正体は「人間の死体」?!タタリの原因は「都市開発」?!迷信、妖怪、奇病、超能力…