Business Aspects category: 650 books
Coders
The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Hello, world.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...
The Right Decision : A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory: A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory
A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
CAN YOU EVER BE SURE YOU'RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION?
Should you stay in a comfy job with little chance of advancement-or take a riskier one in which you could make lots of money but also wind up on the street?
Should you listen to a doctor who advises surgery-or trust another who tells...
Cognitive Surplus
How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better.
In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
The History of the Future
Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars.
From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Benjamin Franklin compiled these pearls of wisdom on wealth and personal finance from Poor Richard's Almanack. Today is 250th anniversary since the book fist appeared as a pamphlet in 1758. Some proverbs from Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth: "There are no gains, without pains" "One today...
by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.
In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human...
Designing Reality
How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything
Two digital revolutions--computing and communication--have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here: fabrication. Today's 3D printers are...
by Andrew Keen
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Keen’s previous book, The Internet Is Not the Answer, was widely praised by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, and Economist, among others, and chosen as a best book of the year by Kazuo Ishiguro in the New Statesman.
As consensus builds around the problems caused...
by Glenn Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Infinite Ripple is an essential read for anyone wishing to utilise the power of social media in their personal, academic and professional lives. With a strong focus on Irish examples, the book contextualises the key concepts of the growing global phenomenon with a focus on advice to harness this opportunity...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
(A5, 112 P.) - Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, according to more recent UN data, over one billion people (in their great majorities in poor and/or underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia and South America) are affected by states of poverty extreme.
That is, approx. from 15% to 20%...
Heartificial Intelligence
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves?
The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today....
Remaking the News
Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.
The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable...
Factfulness
Diez razones por las que estamos equivocados sobre el mundo. Y por qué las cosas están mejor de lo que piensas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 27, 2018
¿Qué porcentaje de la población global vive en la pobreza? ¿Cuántas niñas acaban la educación básica en los países pobres? ¿Cuál es actualmente la esperanza de vida en el mundo? La mayoría de personas responden incorrectamente a estas preguntas y a otras similares. ¿A qué se debe? Este...