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Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It’s the next best thing to being there, and you won’t have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters, Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so.

No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of those cute cats on Instagram. But gradually, quietly, a yet more exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Crafted in the form of a letter to his late father, who first taught him about the power of new technologies to shape human history, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech has effected an invisible but fundamental transformation in all our lives.

日本人がSFを語る上で絶対に外してはいけない作家、海野十三。数多くのSF作品を執筆し、他にもシャーロック・ホームズをもじった「帆村荘六」シリーズや、丘丘十郎の名で科学小説を執筆したり、蜆貝介、栗戸利休の名で科学解説記事を、京人生の名で漫画、海十斎の号で俳句や川柳を発表している。また、日本の漫画界にも多くの影響を与えている。「科学が臍を曲げた話」は、丘丘十郎の名で発表された短編科学エッセイ。錬金術、電気メス、避雷針…科学史において画期的な発明がなされる時の裏側、当たり前だと思っていた科学に人間がまんまと裏切られる瞬間。一筋縄ではいかない科学の本質を、分かりやすく面白く解説。海野十三ならではの洒落た文体が織り成す、不思議な科学の世界へようこそ。

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For 15 years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser.

In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity.

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

トップアスリートや大企業の経営者のブレイントレーニングを手掛け、 各界に成功者を続々と輩出している西田文郎の特別講演、第18弾！ 普段はごく限られた人々しか聞くことができない、 メンタルトレーニングのパイオニア・西田文郎の特別講演の模様を収録しております。 本シリーズの第18弾は、「人工知能と人間」に焦点をあてた講演内容になります。 近年の著しい科学の進歩や技術開発により、 ロボットや人工知能が私たちの生活でも身近な存在になりました。 そんなロボットや人工知能と、人間は今後どの様に付き合って行けば良いのか。 人工知能に支配されず、人間が人間らしく生きるにはどうすれば良いのか。 長年に渡って脳のしくみを研究し、「人間の脳」に秘められた可能性を知り尽くす西田文郎が、 これからの人類の生き方について専門的な切り口から解説します。 Jリーガーやプロ野球選手をはじめ、数々のトップアスリートのメンタルトーレーニングを行い、 北京オリンピック女子ソフトボール日本代表選手を金メダルへ導くなど、 数多くの実績を持つ西田文郎の講演を是非ご堪能ください。

In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

今回のテーマを取り上げようと思ったきっかけは、先日、米コンシューマリポートが報告した調査記事だった。同社は毎年、自動車メーカーのブランド力をいくつかの切り口からスコアリングして順位を付けている。ドイツのメーカーに比べ、日本メーカーは信頼感で勝るスコアを付けることが多く、とりわけレクサスやトヨタが強いランキングだ。今年もナンバーワンはレクサスだったが、2位には意外なメーカーが顔を覗かせていた。マツダである。3位以下はトヨタ、アウディ、スバル、ポルシェ、ビュイックと続く。マツダは昨年、トップ5にも入っていなかったというのに大躍進したのだ。こうした様々な自動車関連のランキングや評価が掲載されたコンシューマリポートの2015年の自動車特集号の表紙は、数ある新発表車種の中からMAZDA MX-5（日本名：ロードスター）が選ばれている。(本文より)本田雅一　続・モバイル通信リターンズはこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/honda.html

NHK「視点・論点」をオーディオブック化。 「脳と自己意識」(2008年8月30日放送)、 「スピリチュアリズムの背景」(2007年1月13日放送)、「ギャップ・イヤー」(2006年9月21日放送)、「創造性と脳の関係」(2005年4月20日放送)の4本をセットにしました。 茂木健一郎氏が脳科学者の視点で世相や時代の潮流を見つめます。

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A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity. With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the vision needed to reshape how we innovate and who really gains from technological advances.

What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather than making things, they simply connect people. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last 10 years.

T2Vの開発元の株式会社プログマインド代表取締役の 濁川武郷氏にインタビューしています。

ック系のインタビューアーとしても有名な大谷和利氏が、プロフェッショナルなプログラマとして活躍する、中野洋一氏と落合徹氏のお二人をゲストに迎えて、様々な側面からプログラミングのススメを語り合います。

From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But outside of a few research labs and military training facilities, this tantalizing vision of the future was nothing but science fiction. Until 2012, when Oculus founder Palmer Luckey - then just a rebellious teenage dreamer living alone in a camper trailer - invents a device that has the potential to change everything.

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about - and solving - an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri's ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars.