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Watkins Media Limited ReV The Machine Dynasty The Machine Dynasty Book
Book SynopsisIn the third and final installment of the Machine Dynasty, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoid vN were engineered finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her grand-daughter Amy comes to its epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keep the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom?File Under: Science FictionTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE MACHINE DYNASTY SERIES: "VN is a clever book with a wonderful ending by a writer who is well versed in AI technology, who can evoke sympathy with a few well-turned phrases and tells a satisfyingly complex story." - Eric Brown, The Guardian; "Ashby intelligently and brutally explores the way people are willing to abuse, devalue and destroy any form of consciousness they're able to define as 'other', while the robots challenge the limits of love, devotion and life after death." - Toronto Globe & Mail, on iD
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Penguin Books Ltd The Machine Age
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Robert Skidelsky -- -A truly innovative and radical perspective … thought-stirring and extremely refreshing -- John Gray * Guardian *Arresting insights, written – despite its complex and heavyweight subject matter – with a captivating lightness of touch -- Dominic Lawson * The Sunday Times *Crisp and pungent … deeply provocative and intellectually suggestive -- Rowan Williams * Prospect *Skidelsky is a major figure in the revival of Keynesian thought -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Stop the Machines
Book SynopsisAs we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of anti-technology violence across the globe. He identifies three main groups fuelling such resistance: insurrectionary anarchists, eco-extremists, and eco-fascists. Exploring the justifications that underlie the opposition to technology and the strategies employed to stop the machines', he shows how anti-tech extremism has emerged as a reaction to the Anthropocene an attempt to undo the epoch of human domination. The intellectual flexibility of this ideology lends itself to different causes, from the class struggle against the techno-elites to the defence of nature and white supremacy. With fears about the risks of artificial intelligence mounting and the world beset by serious polycrises', what is currently a fragmented, fringe phenomenon holds the potential for dramatic escalation.
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Wiley The Maverick and His Machine
Book SynopsisThe first complete look at one of America''s legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century''s greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world''s first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson''s long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead to new Trade Review"...a rich and thorough portrait that goes right back to turn-of-the-century America..." (Business Voice, March 2003) The story of Watson's transformation of the disorganized, amorphous Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into steamlined, world-famous IBM receives a spirited telling by Maney, a USA Today technology columnist. Access to previously unexplored records has provided juicy raw material, including letters and internal memos, to bring America's first celebrity CEO to life in this wart-sand-all biography: Watson (1874-1956) saw the strategic value of corporate culture early and was protective of what he built; Maney argues that the strength of that culture later allowed IBM to survive the potentially devastating effects of Watson's personality flaws. Charismatic, optimistic and generous, Watson was also self-absorbed and psychologically ruthless in getting things done his way. Hard to work for and unable to distinguish between the company and himself, he also behaved like a dictatorial CEO when wreaked havoc with his family. Watson's mania for overreaching peaked when he accepted a decoration from Hitler in 1937 under the deluded impression that Hitler woul d follow Watson's ca mpaign for world peace through world trade; according to Maney, that episode illustrates how out-of-control Watson's ego had grown. Yet, as Maney makes clear in this timely tale of the man who made information into an industry and discovered the power of corporate culture, "Watson wasn't just the best business story at the end of the 1930s; he had become a great American success story that captured the popular imagination." Agent, Sandy Dijkstra. (May). Forecast: Maney's book should hold great appeal not only for avid business readers but also for devotees of the vicissitudes of financial dynasties. That appeal will be supported by a 75,000-copy first printing and a $100,000 ad/promo budget. (Publishers Weekly, March 17, 2003) "...Maney has written a timely and authoritative biography. Without lapsing into hero worship, he presents a great, if flawed, man in all his humanity." (Business Week, May 12, 2003) WHEN Thomas J. Watson Jr., who ran the International Business Machines Corporation during its climb to dominance in the computer industry, published his memoirs in 1990, he called the book "Father, Son & Co." His father - who had taken over a motley assortment of business machine companies in 1914 while awaiting sentencing on a criminal antitrust conviction - loomed large in the story. Indeed, one reason the book has become a business classic is surely its poignant, child's-eye view of the flawed yet fascinating father who created I.B.M. and brought it to the brink of the computer age before passing it to his son, who died in 1993. The portrait of Thomas J. Watson Sr. in his son's memoirs had all of the misty myopia that accompanies any child's perceptions of a fearfully adored parent. One reviewer complained that "we hear too little of life within I.B.M. - and too much of Mr. Watson telling us how awful it was being his father's son." A much more lively and nuanced picture of the senior Watson can be found in Kevin Maney's excellent new biography, "The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of I.B.M." (John Wiley & Sons, $29.95). Enriched by access to Watson's personal papers from the I.B.M. archives, the book brings this complex man to life and provides a clearer sense of how the I.B.M. culture took shape around one man's quirks, preferences and iron whims. The company songs, the daily white shirts, the polish and pomp of corporate ceremonies - all of them were manifestations of Watson's own overcompensating insecurities. An awkward young man from a family with little money, he started out in a career that was the punchline of countless American jokes: the traveling salesman. Not until he was hired in 1896 by the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, did Watson start to acquire the poise and polish that he would demand of his own executives decades later. But his career at "the Cash," under the tutelege of its chairman, John H. Patterson, was very nearly his ruin. National Cash Register had a virtual monopoly in the manufacturing and sale of its product, which was becoming increasingly popular among American retailers. Unfortunately, the machines were built so solidly that they rarely wore out. Companies selling secondhand cash registers began to steal business from it. So, in 1903, Patterson drafted Watson to run an elaborate scam. After ostensibly resigning from the company, Watson set up a chain of used cash register stores that was secretly backed by National Cash Register. By paying more for secondhand machines and selling them for less, Watson drove virtually all of Patterson's competitors out of business. He seems never to have doubted the legality of what he was doing. But when an angry ousted executive started talking to the Justice Department, the scheme figured in a 1912 federal grand jury indictment of Patterson and more than two dozen of his executives, including Watson. In February 1913, Watson, Patterson and all but one of the other executives were convicted of criminal antitrust violations. Watson, newly married, faced up to a year in prison. Somehow, in 1914, he nevertheless persuaded an unreconstructed trust-builder named Charles Ranlett Flint to hire him to try to save a rickety business-machine trust that Flint had assembled in 1911. The conglomerate included the Computing Scale Company of America, which made scales that calculated the price of products sold by weight; the International Time Recording Company, which made the time clocks on which workers punched in for the day; and the Tabulating Machine Company, which used punched holes in rectangular cards to sort information - "the forefathers of mainframe computers," notes Mr. Maney, a technology columnist for USA Today. FLINT called this ailing hodgepodge the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. And in a remarkable decision - one cannot imagine it being replicated in this post- Enron era - he hired the energetic and supremely confident convicted felon, Thomas J. Watson, to bring the company back to life. Watson, whose conviction was later overturned, succeeded beyond anyone's imagination, except his own. Seeing the future in his little tabulating-machine company, he invested lavishly in research and expanded wildly, even in the face of the Depression. Mr. Maney observes that "Watson borrowed a common recipe for stunning success: one part madness, one part luck, and one part hard work to be ready when luck kicked in." The book draws on extensive corporate records to capture Watson's self-absorbed monologues to his senior executives, giving the reader an immense sympathy for the men and women who endured them. With I.B.M.'s cooperation, Mr. Maney seems to have inspected every letter, memorandum and index card that passed through Watson's hands. But the bulkiness of the research only occasionally breaks through the elegant fabric of the storytelling. Watson - a tyrant in the boardroom, a charmer on the dance floor, a sponge for sycophantic flattery, a genius at selling an idea - emerges as an infuriating, sometimes pathetic but always fascinating business icon. For those who loved "Father, Son & Co.," this is an essential and readable companion book. Call it "I.B.M.: The Prequel." (New York Times, May 12, 2003) IBM for decades had a distinct corporate personality, and the leader in driving that culture was Thomas Watson, Sr. Other books have described this irascible man, yet this biography by a technology journalist uses recently discovered and wonderfully detailed corporate log books to flesh out his contradictory persona. Watson was a short-tempered tyrant who surrounded himself with yes-men and managed an increasingly complicated company by instinct. Yet he inspired loyalty and enthusiasm through his relentless optimism and willingness to hire ordinary young people and give them a chance. He made IBM one of the first companies to accept women in its training programs, in the1930s no less. And when managers resisted hiring the first women graduates of the programs, he angrily fired every man who graduated the same year. Maney notes that IBM's dominant position in a booming industry may have played a large part in persuading employees to tolerate Watson's unpredictable behavior. But the author's delightful anecdotes showcase the quirky, human side of what became a major knowledge-based company. (Harvard Business Review, May 2003) "...excellent use of transcripts...should be recommended reading for anyone who seriously wants to be a business mogul..." (Economist, 10 May 2003) "...formidable in its research, vivid, insightful and often hilarious..." (Management Today, June 2003) "...an intriguing study of the man who made IBM, Thomas Watson..." (New Scientist, 7 June 2003) "Maney, a USA Today technology columnist, has written a superb biography of Thomas Watson Sr., who took over the small Computer-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) Company in 1914 and fashioned it into the giant corporation we know today as International Business Machines (IBM). Watson had come to prominence for his work at National Cash Register (NCR), but owing to his involvement in a federal antitrust case, was forced out of his job. This might have destroyed a lesser man, but not Watson, who quickly moved on to C-T-T. A lifelong salesman, Watson always paid close attention to his company's customers, but he also felt that employees were equally important, offering high wages and good benefits. Although his management style was often regarded as imperious, he is credited with founding IBM's famous corporate culture, which enabled the company to succeed. As he aged, be became increasingly stubborn and brooked no dissent, which led to some terrible misjudgments, most notably his involvement with IBM's German subsidiary and receipt of a medial fromTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Prologue. Chapter 1: Maverick Kindling. Chapter 2: Lit by Flint. Chapter 3: A Mess Spelled C-T-R. Chapter 4: Bringing Up Baby IBM. Chapter 5: Daring and Luck. Chapter 6: Friends, Heroes, Sycophants. Chapter 7: Enemies and Delusions. Chapter 8: King and Castle. Chapter 9: Watson the Second. Chapter 10: Watson's War. Chapter 11: Old Man, New Electronic Age. Chapter 12: World Conquest. Chapter 13: The Maverick and His Humanity. Chapter 14: Generations After. Selected Bibliography. Notes. Index.
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine
Book SynopsisThe first goal of this book is to extend Two Minds originating from behavioral economics to the domain of interaction, where the time dimension has to be dealt with rigorously; in human–machine interaction, it is of crucial importance how synchronization between conscious processes and unconscious processes is established for a sense of smoothness, and how memory processes and action selection processes are coordinated. The first half this book describes the theory in detail. The book begins by outlining the whole view of the theory consisting of action selection processes and memorization processes, and their interactions. Then, a detailed description for action selection processes theorized as a nonlinear dynamic human behavior model with real-time constraints is provided, followed by a description for memorization processes. Also, implications of the theory to human–machine interactions are discussed. The second goal of this book is to provide a methodology to study how Two Minds works in practice when people use interactive systems. The latter half of this book describes theory practices in detail. A new methodology called Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE) is introduced, which adds the time dimension to Hutchins’ Cognitive Ethnography, in order to practice "know the users" systematically by designing user studies based on a simulation of users’ mental operations controlled by Two Minds. The author then shows how CCE has been applied to understanding the ways in which people navigate in real physical environments by walking and by car, respectively, and explores the possibility of applying CCE to predict people’s future needs. This is not for understanding how people use interfaces at present but to predict how people want to use the interfaces in the future given they are currently using them in a certain way Finally, the book concludes by describing implications of human–machine interactions that are carried out while using modern artefacts for people's cognitive development from birth, on the basis of the theories of action selection and memorization.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Part 1. Theoretical Foundation for Dealing with Action Selection and Memorization 1 Chapter 1. A Unified Theory of Action Selection and Memory 3 1.1. Organic self-consistent field theory 3 1.1.1. Self-consistent field theory in physics 3 1.1.2. “Organic” SCFT 4 1.1.3. Human beings considered in O-SCFT 4 1.1.4. Scale mix 5 1.2. Development of brain architecture model under the NDHBmodel/RT 6 1.2.1. O-PDP 6 1.2.2. The guideline for architecture selection 6 1.2.3. Development of cross-networks of neurons in the brain 7 Chapter 2. NDHB-Model/RT: Nonlinear Dynamic Human Behavior Model with Realtime Constraints 11 2.1. Maximum satisfaction architecture 11 2.1.1. Happiness goals 11 2.1.2. Society layers 12 2.1.3. Brain layers 12 2.1.4. Conditions to make people feel satisfaction 15 2.2. Brain information hydrodynamics 16 2.2.1. The time axis is central to information flow 17 2.2.2. Cerebrum formation process 17 2.2.3. Information flows in the brain 19 2.2.4. Emergence of emotion in BIH 20 2.2.5. Biorhythm of information flow 21 2.2.6. Role of language 21 2.2.7. Multiple personality disorder 21 2.3. Structured meme theory 22 2.3.1. Meme 22 2.3.2. Memes propagate by means of resonance 23 2.3.3. Characteristics of meme propagation 24 2.4. NDHB-model/RT 25 2.5. MHP/RT: Model human processor with real-time constraints 27 2.5.1. MHP/RT’s basic flow 28 2.5.2. Basic MHP/RT behaviors 30 2.6. Two Minds and emotions 36 2.6.1. Dynamics of consciousness–emotion interaction: an explanation by MHP/RT 37 2.6.2. Taxonomy of emotions: behavioral perspective 40 Chapter 3. Layered-structure of Memory and its Development 43 3.1. MHP/RT modules and their associated memories 43 3.1.1. Memory formation process 45 3.1.2. MD memory frames 46 3.1.3. Memory functions via resonance 49 3.1.4. Memory operates in pipelining 49 3.2. Hierarchical structure of human action selection 51 3.2.1. Three-layered structure of interneurons system 51 3.2.2. Formation process 51 3.3. Emotion initiation via memory processes 54 Chapter 4. Implication for Human–Machine Interaction: Autonomous System Interaction Design (ASID) based on NDHB-Model/RT 57 4.1. Users modeled by MHP/RT with MD memory frames 57 4.2. Autonomous systems versus linear systems 58 4.2.1. Linear systems 58 4.2.2. Autonomous systems 60 4.3. Needs that a society of information systems must meet 60 4.4. Outline of ASI 61 4.5. Conclusions 62 Part 2. Theoretically Motivated Methodology for Understanding Users 65 Chapter 5. Cognitive Chrono-ethnography 67 5.1. Understanding people’s behavior in real life 67 5.2. Cognitive chrono-ethnography 69 5.2.1. Requirements for the methodology (CCE) to study human beings’ behavior in real life 69 5.2.2. CCE procedure 70 5.2.3. Behavior selection shaping factors 72 Chapter 6. A CCE Study: Slow Self-paced Navigation 75 6.1. Introduction: navigation in a train station by following signs 75 6.2. Steps 1 and 2 of CCE 76 6.2.1. Attention, planning and working memory 77 6.2.2. An MHP/RT simulation of navigation behavior 78 6.3. Step 3 of CCE: monitor recruiting 82 6.3.1. Investigation of cognitive aging characteristics 82 6.4. Steps 4 and 5 of CCE: monitor behavior observation and individual model construction 83 6.4.1. Train stations, tasks and participants 84 6.4.2. Method 85 6.5. Step 6 of CCE: socioecological model construction 86 6.6. Discussion 87 6.6.1. Two modes of navigation 87 6.6.2. Web navigation 88 6.6.3. Nature of complicated navigation processes 90 6.7. Conclusions 90 Chapter 7. Fast Externally-paced Navigation 93 7.1. Introduction 93 7.2. Steps 1 and 2 of CCE 95 7.2.1. Designing a CCE study 96 7.3. Step 3 of CCE: monitor recruiting 98 7.3.1. Screening 99 7.3.2. Interview for the final selection 100 7.4. Steps 4 and 5 of CCE: monitor behavior observation and individual model construction 100 7.4.1. Data analysis 100 7.4.2. Information necessary for safe and enjoyable driving 102 7.4.3. Examples 103 7.5. Conclusions 105 Chapter 8. Designing for Future Needs 109 8.1. Introduction 109 8.2. Making inaccessible future needs accessible: t-translation invariant principle 110 8.3. A case study of CCE: why do fans repeat visits to the ballpark? 112 8.3.1. Steps 1 and 2 of CCE 112 8.3.2. Step 3 of CCE: monitor recruiting 115 8.3.3. Step 4 of CCE: field observation 115 8.3.4. Step 5 of CCE: conduct retrospective interviews 116 8.3.5. Step 6 of CCE: socioecological model construction 117 8.3.6. Results: developing from a pre-fan to a repeater 120 8.4. Discussion 122 8.4.1. Selection of elite monitors 122 8.4.2. CCE interview 122 8.4.3. Applicability of CCE 123 8.5. Conclusions 124 Conclusion 127 Bibliography 133 Index 137
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Brand Against the Machine
Book SynopsisDitch traditional corporate branding to create a powerful, recognizable brand Brand Against the Machine offers proven and actionable steps for companies and entrepreneurs to increase their brand visibility and credibility, and to create an indispensable brand that consumers can relate to, thus becoming life-long customers.Table of Contents1. The Machine 1 2. Why Branding? 5 3. The Brand Framework 11 4. Visibility versus Ability 14 5. Attention Doesn’t Equal Trust 17 6. The Right Position 21 7. The Master Plan 24 8. Marketing versus Branding 27 9. Do You Believe? 30 10. Anchor Belief 34 11. Death of the Mundane 36 12. The Creation Story 39 13. Extra Ordinary 43 14. Bring the Noise 47 15. Content Explosion 50 16. Top Yourself 54 17. Welcome to the Social Parade 60 18. The Brand Conversation 67 19. Many Shades of You 70 20. Celebrity Currency 75 21. The Uncommon Brand 79 22. Dissident 82 23. Your Brand’s Home Base 85 24. Shock and Awe 89 25. The Presentation Age 92 26. Video Made the Internet Star 96 27. Brand Alliance 99 28. Dirty Little Secret 102 29. Little Things 105 30. Race to the Bottom 108 31. Longing to Belong 111 32. Brand Without a Cause 114 33. Why Your Website Sucks 118 34. Misunderstood 120 35. The Hangout 124 36. Light the Fuse 127 37. Overnight Authority 130 38. Everything in Twos 133 39. Point of View 136 40. Back and Forth 138 41. Feeling Good 140 42. Everything You Do Is Branding 143 43. Hidden Brand Advocates 146 44. Come as You Are 148 45. The 20/60/20 Rule 152 46. The Real Thing 156 47. What’s in a Name? 159 48. The Prospect Cycle 161 49. Viva La Failure 164 50. Know Your Enemy 168 51. Erase, Then Replace 171 52. The Sound of Silence 174 53. The 10:100 Method 178 54. Your Online Presence 181 55. Raise Your Standards 184 56. Warning: You’ve Been Lied To 186 57. Monitor and Measure 189 58. How to Ensure Your Brand Fails 193 59. What Is Killing Entrepreneurs? 195 60. Twenty Rules 197 61. Parting Shot 202 Special Offer 204 Acknowledgments 205 Index 208
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Moved by Machines Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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Harvard University Press The Italian Renaissance of Machines
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance was a rebirth of art and literature—and of machines. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period featuring Taccola’s and da Vinci’s fusion of artistry and engineering and new concepts of learning that enabled Galileo’s revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.Trade ReviewGalluzzi’s project in this erudite and beautifully illustrated book is to consider Renaissance humanism from the relatively unfamiliar perspective of machine design…Leonardo’s projects, like Taccola’s, combined philosophy, art, experimental science, performance, politics, diplomacy, and fantasy. It’s not that these engineer-humanists did many different things, but that they regarded all things as one. -- Jessica Riskin * New York Review of Books *Galluzzi has long been one of the premier scholars of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history of technology and science. But most of his scholarship is not available in English and is thus inaccessible to those who do not read Italian. This beautifully written book will bring his scholarship to the general reader, while promising to be of great use to specialists. -- Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century RomeIn a period of economic development, profound urbanization, and constant warfare, artist-engineers offered Renaissance society creative solutions to technical problems, new ways of imagining and understanding the world, and empirical methodologies that laid the groundwork for the new sciences. Galluzzi’s richly illustrated book therefore does well to demonstrate how artist-engineers revolutionized the conceptualization and production of textual and visual content, and, consequently, produced radical innovations in graphic representations that reflect the ever-fascinating world that is the Italian Renaissance. -- Jennifer Strtak * Renaissance and Reformation *Galluzzi, director of the Museo Galileo since 1982, is eminently qualified to synthesize this vast body of work…His observations display a freshness, immediacy, and acuity…Anyone who studies or teaches the renaissance of arts and letters will benefit from this more inclusive view of the period. -- Michael Kucher * Technology and Culture *Galluzzi is the doyen of Leonardo da Vinci scholars today…This is apt to become a canonical text in its field. -- Bert Hall * Renaissance and Reformation *An authoritative introduction to Galluzzi’s scholarly achievement, making it accessible as a reference work to an international English language reading audience, while at the same retaining stylistic traces of the vividness of the lectures. -- Sven Dupré * Journal of Modern History *
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Kogan Page Ltd HumanMachine
Book SynopsisDaniel Newman is Principal Analyst of Futurum Research and the CEO of Broadsuite Media Group. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Newman works with large technology brands exploring digital transformation and how it influences our world. A five-times best-selling author, he is a Forbes, Entrepreneur and Huffington Post contributor.Olivier Blanchard draws from his extensive experience managing product innovation, technology adoption, digital integration and change management for industry leaders in a variety of sectors to help decision makers, and their organizations, understand the many risks and opportunities of technology-driven disruption and leverage innovation.Table of Contents Chapter - 01: A short history of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 02: The state of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 03: Framing expectations for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 04: How businesses should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 05: How workers should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 06: How educational institutions should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 07: How consumers should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 08: How technology companies should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships; Chapter - 09: The future of human–machine partnerships - putting it all together;
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rage Inside the Machine
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2020 Business Book AwardsWe live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it''s only the users of technology who distort certain aspects of it.But is this statement actually true? Dr Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era.Having worked in the field of artificial intelligence for over 30 years, Smith reveals the mounting evidence that the mechanical actors in our lives do indeed have, or at least express, morals: they're just not the morals of the progressive modern society that we imagined we were moving towards. Instead, as we are just beginning to see in the US elections and Brexit to name but a few there are incrTrade ReviewIn Rage Inside the Machine, Rob Smith has written a fascinating hybrid text – a compelling memoir, a moving mosaic of history and technology, and, most important, the timeliest of warnings for our increasingly dangerous era of ubiquitous AI and algorithms … Read this book and take its carefully crafted message to heart. -- David Goldberg, author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine LearningIn Rage Inside the Machine, Rob Smith accomplishes what few people could attempt: to humanize the discourse on artificial intelligence. -- Chris Kutarna, co-author of Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second RenaissanceRob Smith humanises the dark and confused topic of AI and calls us to action. A beautiful, accessible and truly important book … I loved it. -- Derren Brown, illusionist and author of Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely FineIn an age when more and more decisions of our lives are made by algorithms, it's vital for anyone, not just techies, to understand how data can change our lives. Rob Smith has a unique ability to express the complicated future of AI in a very simple manner. Read it if you want to stay human. -- Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, Founder of Consciously Digital and author of Homo DistractusRage Inside the Machine is a guide to how we got here, conceptually and historically. Rob Smith appreciates the successes of AI, but also warns that incomprehensibly complex data driven systems are not easily corrected, and can make major mistakes. -- David Leinweber, author of Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired MarketsRob Smith shines a light on the dangers of accepting a passive role in our relationship with tech. Essential reading for anyone wanting to know how to keep their sanity and humanity in the age of super-tech. -- Helen Bagnall, Founder of Salon LondonRobert Smith's new book takes a subject that is intimidating for non-tech folk, and creates an accessible and riveting read. I found it so informative. It's opened my eye to the role algorithms play in the divisiveness of social media. -- Tracy Ann Oberman, actor, writer and activistA sobering and inspiring read: not merely a puncturing of the tediously overinflated AI hype bubble - it's also a thrilling manifesto for what AI teaches us about real human cognition. -- Cory Doctorow, author of 'Radicalized' and 'Walkaway', and co-founder of the Open Rights Group
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Man a Machine and Man a Plant
Book SynopsisThe first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie''s pioneering L''Homme machine and L''Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L''Homme machine. Justin Leiber''s introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie''s relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.
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Princeton University Press The Machine Has a Soul American Sympathy with
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Penn State University Machine Modernism Masculinity and the Trauma of
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Penguin Books Ltd Darwin Among the Machines
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