epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Stewart Brand

Such a museum could, if necessary, be not just a collection of curiosities but a template for renewal. When civilizations truly crash, no one at the time can imagine the ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Donna Freitas

IAN: TAKING PLEASURE FROM OTHERS’ PAIN When Ian struts—and I mean struts—into the room, I realize that our conversation is probably going to be a little different than the ones ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Donna Freitas [Freitas, Donna]

IAN: TAKING PLEASURE FROM OTHERS’ PAIN When Ian struts—and I mean struts—into the room, I realize that our conversation is probably going to be a little different than the ones ...

epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Susskind

TAXATION Today, taxes are not a topic that tends to excite people. People like talking about taxes almost as little as they enjoy paying them. But in a world with ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Adam Gazzaley & Larry D. Rosen

Older Adults Although technology is often considered a tool for the young, they are not the only ones engaging in the high-tech world. Another study from Dr. Rosen’s lab compared ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna [Goldin, Ian]

** In the meantime, to prevent repeats in the future, the US Postal Service has been irradiating all D.C. federal mail, at an annual cost to the US taxpayer of ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Cukier

The big-data value chain The primary substance of big data is the information itself. So it makes sense to look first at the data holders. They may not have done ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Andrew Keen

The Love-In By 1967, the people of San Francisco had replaced their gray flannel suits with rainbow-colored clothes and psychedelic scarves. By 1967, love had usurped scientific management as the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Susan Maushart

What’s up with the dots? I ask him. What do you mean? he replies, puzzled. Isn’t that the proper way? In other punctuation news ... Sussy’s friend Sean—completely OCT (obsessive ...

mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Susan Maushart

What’s up with the dots? I ask him. What do you mean? he replies, puzzled. Isn’t that the proper way? In other punctuation news ... Sussy’s friend Sean—completely OCT (obsessive ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-22 | Author:Thomas P. Keenan

New York City was a pioneer in the Open Data arena. In October 2009, with considerable fanfare, they released a number of municipal data sets. The next day, they had ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Houle, David

The first wave of this generation has never experienced a time without the Internet, mobile phones, or high-speed wireless connectivity. They have grown up with Search as a reality and ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Schmidt, Eric & Cohen, Jared [Schmidt, Eric]

Sudden access to technology does not in and of itself enable radicalized individuals to become cyber terrorists. There is a technical skills barrier that, to date, has forestalled an explosion ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:DaviD Houle [Houle, DaviD]

Summary of the Threshold Decades The 20-year period of 1985-2005 was a time of significant transition from the accepted “reality” of the past to the new “reality” of the present. ...