Author: Andrew Maynard
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1633539067
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
“Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.
Films from the Future
Author: Andrew Maynard
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1633539067
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
“Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1633539067
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
“Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.
Special Publications
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Pages : 226
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Re-Engineering Humanity
Author: Brett Frischmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108562256
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people. Detailing new frameworks, provocative case studies, and mind-blowing thought experiments, Frischmann and Selinger reveal hidden connections between fitness trackers, electronic contracts, social media platforms, robotic companions, fake news, autonomous cars, and more. This powerful analysis should be read by anyone interested in understanding exactly how technology threatens the future of our society, and what we can do now to build something better.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108562256
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people. Detailing new frameworks, provocative case studies, and mind-blowing thought experiments, Frischmann and Selinger reveal hidden connections between fitness trackers, electronic contracts, social media platforms, robotic companions, fake news, autonomous cars, and more. This powerful analysis should be read by anyone interested in understanding exactly how technology threatens the future of our society, and what we can do now to build something better.
Results of Spirit Leveling in Colorado, 1896 to 1914, Inclusive
Author: Robert Bradford Marshall
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Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, to the Secretary of Commerce
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Progress of the Work During the Fiscal Year Ending with ...
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Pages : 836
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Report of the Superintendent ... Showing the Progress of the Work
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Pages : 216
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Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year ...
Author: United States Coast Survey
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Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and ... Annual Report on the Triangulation of the State
Author: New York (State). State Survey
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Special report ... on the preservaton of the scenery of Niagara Falls contains also a "facsimile [of a portion] of the first London edition of Father Hennepin's descreption of Niagara" with title: A new description of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles between New France and New Mexico ... by L. Hennepin ... London, 1698. (t.-p., 29-32 p. fold. pl.)
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Special report ... on the preservaton of the scenery of Niagara Falls contains also a "facsimile [of a portion] of the first London edition of Father Hennepin's descreption of Niagara" with title: A new description of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles between New France and New Mexico ... by L. Hennepin ... London, 1698. (t.-p., 29-32 p. fold. pl.)