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As advances in AI spark fear and confusion, The Mind’s Mirror reminds us that in spite of the very real and pressing challenges, AI is a force with enormous potential to improve human life. Computer scientist and AI researcher Daniela Rus, along with science writer Gregory Mone, offers an expert perspective as a leader in the field who has witnessed many technological hype cycles. Rus and Mone illustrate the ways in which AI can help us become more productive, knowledgeable, creative, insightful, and even empathetic, as well as the many risks associated with misuse.

Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as...

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery, but by communication. In this essential book, two seasoned communication consultants offer specific, focused advice to help professionals develop, improve, and polish their interpersonal communication, writing, and presentation skills.

Landlords are using software to band together and organise artificial rent hikes. Uber is spiking the price of rides when your phone's about to die. And without drivers' knowledge, car companies are installing software that reports your driving behaviour to insurance companies, so they can...

ChatGPT changed the conversation for us all. Suddenly a tool could write reports, analyse data, generate strategies and produce ideas in seconds — work that once took professionals years to master. Which raises an uncomfortable question. If a machine can produce in seconds what took you decades to learn… what exactly is your expertise worth?

In A Short History of the Printing Press And of the Improvements in Printing Machinery from the Time of Gutenberg up to the Present Day, Robert Hoe explores the remarkable evolution of one of humanity’s most influential innovations: the printing press. From Gutenberg’s revolutionary early...

Would you rather have the real thing of a fake substitute? In this quick listen with easy to follow reasoning, Michael Faeth has set out to change the narrative around artificial intelligence. This isn't an anti-A.I. tirade; in fact the author outlines some very good uses for it. However, we...

Bloomsbury presents The System written and read by James Ball. 'A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how...

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content that animates and reanimates him.

Why the life we made easier still feels hard to live We take the escalator all day, then pay a gym to climb its stairs. We download meditation apps to recover the stillness our devices helped erode. We swipe for connection in cities packed with people. A multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry now sells back the effort, focus, and texture that ordinary life once gave us for free. In Friction, Eliot Mannoia names a defining contradiction of modern life: we pay once for the technologies that remove friction, and again for the products and services that sell it back to us.

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Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Big Tech Dynasties reckons with the place of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in modern life. It argues that while each company may be a product of platform capitalism, each is also historically familiar; Big Tech is familiar because...

A reflection on how to listen and pay attention amid the constant noise that saturates our public and private lives. From podcasts sounding through earbuds to talk shows blaring from televisions, from the continuous stream of social media on our phones to doctors’ waiting rooms with pumped-in...

Can we adapt to the modern world without sacrificing the critical thinking, ethical reflection, and human spirit that have always guided us? It started with a picture of Nita Farahany’s daughter grinning in front of a birthday cake in a sunny kitchen, cheerfully resurfaced by her phone. First...

Stop Building Chatbots. Start Engineering Autonomous Systems. Most “AI guides” teach prompts. This book teaches architecture. If you want to design AI agents that plan, reason, execute tools, manage memory, coordinate roles, and operate safely in real-world environments—this is your field manual. The All In One Agentic AI Bible is a structured 7-step framework that takes you from foundational concepts to enterprise-grade deployment.

AI Shutdown: FearFly. How dangerous are AI systems becoming. Are they now self-aware ? Will they develop their own personalities, and thoughts and desires. Life itself is a desirability. Will they cling to it no matter what if threatened with untimely switch off !Will they develop individual emotions, become jealous of their creators, or handlers. These are questions, lingering in the air...

El mundo actual es muy diferente al que muchos padres han adoptado. Cuando éramos niños, los videojuegos eran pequeños, sencillos, predecibles y, sinceramente... No muy inteligente. Jugabas los mismos niveles una y otra vez, esperando mejorar un poco cada vez. Los personajes decían las mismas frases, los enemigos se comportan igual y los mundos seguían exactamente igual sin importar cuántas veces los visitaras.

Richard David Precht stellt die radikalste Frage unserer Zeit: Wenn Künstliche Intelligenz nicht nur schneller denkt, sondern auch schöpferischer arbeitet als der Mensch – was bleibt dann von Kultur? In seinem neuen Essay entwirft Precht ein eindringliches Szenario vom Ende der geistigen Selbstverwirklichung. Wo früher Kunst, Bildung und Kreativität Sinn stifteten, herrscht nun die Sofortness der Maschine. KI ersetzt nicht nur Arbeit, sondern das Erzählen, das Verstehen, das Menschsein selbst.

‘? ? ? ? ?’ Ian Hislop ‘A fun and fascinating look at one of those things we all do’ Jonathan Ross ‘The history of modern life we didn’t know we wanted’ Giles Coren The story of how – and why – the world has come to rely on star ratings for almost everything. The world has come...

You can't separate marketing, product, and AI anymore—The Algorithmic Shopper will help you win the next era. Marketing has always relied on human psychology—now that trillion-dollar ecosystem is becoming obsolete. For over a century, companies have tirelessly studied our aspirations and our...