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Net Smart
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century....
Media & Internet, Social Media
Howard Reingold, Anthony Weeks
Network Propaganda
Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of...
Communication, Politics & Government, Social Media
Yochai Benkler
This NextMapping - Second Edition provides strategies and ideas for leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to navigate the future of work. The biggest imperative for companies right now is to be ready...
Automation, Business & Economics, Future of Work, Leadership, Robotics
Cheryl Cran
No Ordinary Disruption
Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find...
Business & Economics, Strategy
Richard Dobbs
What unexpected insights can a holographic Holocaust survivor and a Japanese film about soy sauce offer us about career development? How do self-repairing airplane wings, touch-enabled “skinterface” tattoos and smart...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy
Rohit Bhargava
"If you've got nothing to hide," many people say, "you shouldn't worry about government surveillance." Others argue that we must sacrifice privacy for security. But as Daniel J. Solove argues...
Civil Liberties, Computer & Internet Law, Law, Privacy
Daniel J. Solove
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control "Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often...
Leadership, Social Media
Charlene Li
Fundamental and applied concepts concerning the ability of light beams to carry a certain mechanical angular momentum (AM) with respect to the propagation axis are reviewed and discussed in this...
Science
A. Bekshaev, M. Soskin, M. Vasnetsov
A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when...
Business & Economics
Geoffrey G. Parker
The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask wearers and the mask haters....
Business & Economics, Politics & Government
Scott Galloway
A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to...
ART, Creativity, History, Ideas, Innovation, Psychology
Joshua Wolf Shenk
How do we think about money? What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy? What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means? What irrational...
Business & Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences
Dan Ariely
The Privacy Law Sourcebook is the leading resource for students, attorneys, and policymakers interested in privacy law in the United States and around the world. The Sourcebook includes major U.S....
Law, Privacy
Marc Rotenberg
Race Against the Machine
Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy and society are becoming more...
Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Range
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours...
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Psychology, Strategy
David Epstein
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...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Computer & Internet Law, Future of Work, Law, Privacy, Public Policy, Technology & Engineering
Brett Frischmann
From this all-star cast of today's most highly-regarded business philosophers, futurists and practitioners comes a panoramic perspective of how organizations can be redesigned to thrive in tomorrow's hyper-competitive global environment....
Business & Economics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
Warren G. Bennis
Rise of the Robots
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today's industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even...
Automation, Future of Work, Robotics, Social Aspects of Technology
Martin Ford
Robot-Proof
Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the...
Automation, Education, Robotics, Social Aspects of Technology
Joseph Aoun
If you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Robotics
Martin Ford
Rules for Radicals
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic...
Civil Liberties, Culture, Democracy, Political Science
Saul David Alinsky
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
Biography & Autobiography, Hacking, Privacy, Security
Andy Greenberg
Sapiens
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our...
Cultural Anthropology, Culture, Science
Yuval Noah Harari
Seeing What’s Next
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy
Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth
Shaping The Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing everything – from the way we relate to each other, to the work we do, the way our economies work, and what it means...
Social Aspects of Technology, Technology & Engineering
Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis
shift 2020
Shift 2020 gives you an understanding how technology is going to influence, shape and impact your daily life in the near future. Many different areas of how we will communicate,...
Rudy De Waele
Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only...
Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media, Technology & Engineering
Charles Arthur
Speech Police
The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, spread untruth, and promote hate. Over...
Computer & Internet Law, Law, Science, Social Media
David Kaye
Strategic Foresight
Revised and fully updated in August 2017, with an important new section on Scenario Tools and Scenario Planning. his is a book is for leaders, to aid their practice in...
Forecasting, Leadership
Patricia Lustig
Superforecasting
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Psychology
Philip Tetlock
Superintelligence
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of...
Artificial Intelligence
Nick Bostrom
Switch
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds...
Leadership, Social Sciences
Chip Heath, Dan Heath