Author: M.K. Malkki
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9528093736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
When the choice for the future must be made. On a sunny August weekend, a mother, a schoolkid, a leader of exoplanet pioneers and a conscript face the consequences of poor leadership as a power-hungry AI wants to decide who may live and who shall die. Should humans become puppets of cruelty or accept an electromagnetic pulse, EMP, which will take societies throughout the globe decades backwards? Why does the other AI conveniently happen to come to the aid of those in the most dire need? Is Vanamo really a well-meaning entity or a destroyer as in disguise? In midst of the darkest hours, it is love and friendship that carry on until tomorrow, perhaps even stronger than in grey everyday life. Is a new affection just a disturbance of brainwaves or something more tangible? Allow these four tales take you into the year 2037!
Cyberwar in 2037
Author: M.K. Malkki
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9528093736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
When the choice for the future must be made. On a sunny August weekend, a mother, a schoolkid, a leader of exoplanet pioneers and a conscript face the consequences of poor leadership as a power-hungry AI wants to decide who may live and who shall die. Should humans become puppets of cruelty or accept an electromagnetic pulse, EMP, which will take societies throughout the globe decades backwards? Why does the other AI conveniently happen to come to the aid of those in the most dire need? Is Vanamo really a well-meaning entity or a destroyer as in disguise? In midst of the darkest hours, it is love and friendship that carry on until tomorrow, perhaps even stronger than in grey everyday life. Is a new affection just a disturbance of brainwaves or something more tangible? Allow these four tales take you into the year 2037!
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9528093736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
When the choice for the future must be made. On a sunny August weekend, a mother, a schoolkid, a leader of exoplanet pioneers and a conscript face the consequences of poor leadership as a power-hungry AI wants to decide who may live and who shall die. Should humans become puppets of cruelty or accept an electromagnetic pulse, EMP, which will take societies throughout the globe decades backwards? Why does the other AI conveniently happen to come to the aid of those in the most dire need? Is Vanamo really a well-meaning entity or a destroyer as in disguise? In midst of the darkest hours, it is love and friendship that carry on until tomorrow, perhaps even stronger than in grey everyday life. Is a new affection just a disturbance of brainwaves or something more tangible? Allow these four tales take you into the year 2037!
Ghost Fleet
Author: Peter Warren Singer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544142845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Two authorities on trends in warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel set in the near future in which a besieged America battles for its very existence
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544142845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Two authorities on trends in warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel set in the near future in which a besieged America battles for its very existence
While the Universe Dreams
Author: R. A. Whitridge
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525555707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the twenty-second century, humans on Earth are trapped in an unending struggle to survive raging climate change, failed nations, disease, and cyber war. The United Peoples International Corporation has used its advanced technologies to try and save civilization but has achieved little success. It is now decided that human survival will best be served by embarking on a journey to the Alpha Centauri solar system. The first stop for their intergalactic spacecraft, the Crystal Ark, will be to support the trial terraforming of the planet Mars. However, the discovery of a journal belonging to the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, reveals an astonishing Martian secret. Unraveling the secret will not only remove the barrier to interstellar time travel, but will also motivate saboteurs to alter the future of humanity while unwittingly resurrecting the dangers of the Martian past.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525555707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the twenty-second century, humans on Earth are trapped in an unending struggle to survive raging climate change, failed nations, disease, and cyber war. The United Peoples International Corporation has used its advanced technologies to try and save civilization but has achieved little success. It is now decided that human survival will best be served by embarking on a journey to the Alpha Centauri solar system. The first stop for their intergalactic spacecraft, the Crystal Ark, will be to support the trial terraforming of the planet Mars. However, the discovery of a journal belonging to the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, reveals an astonishing Martian secret. Unraveling the secret will not only remove the barrier to interstellar time travel, but will also motivate saboteurs to alter the future of humanity while unwittingly resurrecting the dangers of the Martian past.
2034
Author: Elliot Ackerman
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781432888800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic preeminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, coauthored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophitication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years of working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the readers a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid. --
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781432888800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic preeminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, coauthored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophitication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years of working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the readers a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid. --
The 2030 Spike
Author: Colin Mason
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136555110
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136555110
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Cyberwarfare
Author: Kristan Stoddart
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030972992
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum. It concentrates on threats to critical infrastructure which includes major public utilities. It focusses on the threats posed by the two most potent adversaries/competitors to the West, Russia and China, whilst considering threats posed by Iran and North Korea. The arguments and themes are empirically driven but are also driven by the need to evolve the nascent debate on cyberwarfare and conceptions of ‘cyberwar’. This book seeks to progress both conceptions and define them more tightly. This accessibly written book speaks to those interested in cybersecurity, international relations and international security, law, criminology, psychology as well as to the technical cybersecurity community, those in industry, governments, policing, law making and law enforcement, and in militaries (particularly NATO members).
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030972992
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum. It concentrates on threats to critical infrastructure which includes major public utilities. It focusses on the threats posed by the two most potent adversaries/competitors to the West, Russia and China, whilst considering threats posed by Iran and North Korea. The arguments and themes are empirically driven but are also driven by the need to evolve the nascent debate on cyberwarfare and conceptions of ‘cyberwar’. This book seeks to progress both conceptions and define them more tightly. This accessibly written book speaks to those interested in cybersecurity, international relations and international security, law, criminology, psychology as well as to the technical cybersecurity community, those in industry, governments, policing, law making and law enforcement, and in militaries (particularly NATO members).
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
Author: Ignacio Rojas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319561545
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
This two volume set LNBI 10208 and LNBI 10209 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2017, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2017. The 122 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 309 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: advances in computational intelligence for critical care; bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases; biomedical engineering; biomedical image analysis; biomedical signal analysis; biomedicine; challenges representing large-scale biological data; computational genomics; computational proteomics; computational systems for modeling biological processes; data driven biology - new tools, techniques and resources; eHealth; high-throughput bioinformatic tools for genomics; oncological big data and new mathematical tools; smart sensor and sensor-network architectures; time lapse experiments and multivariate biostatistics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319561545
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
This two volume set LNBI 10208 and LNBI 10209 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2017, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2017. The 122 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 309 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: advances in computational intelligence for critical care; bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases; biomedical engineering; biomedical image analysis; biomedical signal analysis; biomedicine; challenges representing large-scale biological data; computational genomics; computational proteomics; computational systems for modeling biological processes; data driven biology - new tools, techniques and resources; eHealth; high-throughput bioinformatic tools for genomics; oncological big data and new mathematical tools; smart sensor and sensor-network architectures; time lapse experiments and multivariate biostatistics.
Cyberstorm
Author: Matthew Mather
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 144343227X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In this prescient thriller about an all-too-possible scenario, a man fights to keep his family alive when a cyberworld meltdown and fierce storms cut New York City off from the world. Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker living in an apartment in Chelsea, struggling to keep his family together. When the Internet goes down, he suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive. The electricity and power supplies fade in and out, and the explanations offered by the authorities are vague and untrustworthy. A string of increasingly bizarre disasters starts appearing on the world’s news networks, and a monster snowstorm hits New York City before Christmas. Mike and his close friends and family hunker down in their apartment building for safety, organizing and rationing food and water. Outside, the boundaries between lawful and criminal behaviour break down as resources become scarce. With the threat to their safety growing, Mike and his family pin their hopes on fleeing the city for the countryside. But as the world and cyberworld come crashing down, New York is suddenly cut off, turning the city into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems, and where no one can be trusted . . .
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 144343227X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In this prescient thriller about an all-too-possible scenario, a man fights to keep his family alive when a cyberworld meltdown and fierce storms cut New York City off from the world. Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker living in an apartment in Chelsea, struggling to keep his family together. When the Internet goes down, he suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive. The electricity and power supplies fade in and out, and the explanations offered by the authorities are vague and untrustworthy. A string of increasingly bizarre disasters starts appearing on the world’s news networks, and a monster snowstorm hits New York City before Christmas. Mike and his close friends and family hunker down in their apartment building for safety, organizing and rationing food and water. Outside, the boundaries between lawful and criminal behaviour break down as resources become scarce. With the threat to their safety growing, Mike and his family pin their hopes on fleeing the city for the countryside. But as the world and cyberworld come crashing down, New York is suddenly cut off, turning the city into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems, and where no one can be trusted . . .
America's Search for Security
Author: Sean Kay
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442225645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book details the ways in which America’s ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint. In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America’s rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots, analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes can befall America abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied, unclear, and fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an unquestionable world power. This book also focuses on America’s recent “pivot” to Asia, and efforts to restore a realist balance abroad and at home in the second Obama administration, concluding with a look at what the future of American power will look like in a rapidly evolving world in need of newer, more modernized, and adaptable forms of leadership. Tracing the tension between idealism and realism, Kay provides a detailed explanation of the rise of a post-Cold War idealist consensus in Washington, D.C. - and shows how that culminated in a return to realism in both the 2013 debates over intervention in Syria and the 2014 crisis with Russia.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442225645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book details the ways in which America’s ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint. In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America’s rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots, analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes can befall America abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied, unclear, and fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an unquestionable world power. This book also focuses on America’s recent “pivot” to Asia, and efforts to restore a realist balance abroad and at home in the second Obama administration, concluding with a look at what the future of American power will look like in a rapidly evolving world in need of newer, more modernized, and adaptable forms of leadership. Tracing the tension between idealism and realism, Kay provides a detailed explanation of the rise of a post-Cold War idealist consensus in Washington, D.C. - and shows how that culminated in a return to realism in both the 2013 debates over intervention in Syria and the 2014 crisis with Russia.
Global Trends 2030
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646797721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important report, Global Trends 2030-Alternative Worlds, released in 2012 by the U.S. National Intelligence Council, describes megatrends and potential game changers for the next decades. Among the megatrends, it analyzes: - increased individual empowerment - the diffusion of power among states and the ascent of a networked multi-polar world - a world's population growing to 8.3 billion people, of which sixty percent will live in urbanized areas, and surging cross-border migration - expanding demand for food, water, and energy It furthermore describes potential game changers, including: - a global economy that could thrive or collapse - increased global insecurity due to regional instability in the Middle East and South Asia - new technologies that could solve the problems caused by the megatrends - the possibility, but by no means the certainty, that the U.S. with new partners will reinvent the international system Students of trends, forward-looking entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades will find this essential reading.
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646797721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important report, Global Trends 2030-Alternative Worlds, released in 2012 by the U.S. National Intelligence Council, describes megatrends and potential game changers for the next decades. Among the megatrends, it analyzes: - increased individual empowerment - the diffusion of power among states and the ascent of a networked multi-polar world - a world's population growing to 8.3 billion people, of which sixty percent will live in urbanized areas, and surging cross-border migration - expanding demand for food, water, and energy It furthermore describes potential game changers, including: - a global economy that could thrive or collapse - increased global insecurity due to regional instability in the Middle East and South Asia - new technologies that could solve the problems caused by the megatrends - the possibility, but by no means the certainty, that the U.S. with new partners will reinvent the international system Students of trends, forward-looking entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades will find this essential reading.