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AI Rising: How to Thrive in the Age of Abundance Energy → Intelligence → Wealth"AI will run out of electricity and transformers in 2025." —Elon Musk "Robotics and AI will change the world more than anything in the history of mankind." —Jensen Huang Inspired by Peter H. Diamandis' vision: Providing abundance in food, water, shelter, energy, and health care for all humanity.In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping everything—from self-driving cars transforming transportation to AI diagnosing diseases faster than doctors—AI Rising is your essential guide to thriving in ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development. “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times “Startling in scope and bravado...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now...

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...

Are you ready to rethink what it means to be “smart”? Understanding Howard Gardner is your complete, beginner-friendly guide to one of the most influential psychological theories of the modern era—the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Developed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, this revolutionary framework transformed the way we think about intelligence, learning styles, and human potential. In this in-depth and engaging guide, you’ll explore all nine intelligences—from linguistic and logical to interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and beyond. Discover how each ...

Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated—and nearly everything in-between—our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit...

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution. Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li “one of a tiny group of scientists—a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table—who are responsible for AI’s...

We are living in a time where artificial intelligence is quietly shaping almost everything around us. From the way businesses make decisions to how content is created, from cybersecurity systems to everyday tools we use: AI, machine learning, and generative AI are already deeply built into modern life. The problem? Most people still don’t fully understand how it all works. This book is designed to change that. In plain, simple language, it explains how artificial intelligence works in the real world, without technical terms or complicated explanations. You’ll see how AI systems learn, ...

In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war. The military organizations that best innovate and adapt to this AI revolution will likely gain significant advantages over their rivals. To this end, great powers such as the United States, China, and Russia are already investing in novel sensing, reasoning, and learning technologies that will alter how militaries plan and fight. The resulting transformation could fundamentally change the character of war.

Are you tired of overthinking, battling anxiety, and breaking promises to yourself? It’s time to stop letting emotions control your life—and start mastering them. Be Unshakable is a practical emotional intelligence guide that shows you how to build self-discipline, overcome stress, and create lasting habits. Using the proven FOCUS framework (Find, Observe, Clarify, Understand, Select), this book gives you the tools to manage your emotions in stressful situations, stay calm under pressure, and finally take control of your mindset. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Stop overthinking and ...

Emergency medical services is changing faster than at any point in its long history. Artificial intelligence is now deployed in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and dispatch centers. Consumer technology companies are routing patients to AI-mediated triage before they ever call 911. Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are entering federal integration pilots with an explicit focus on rural healthcare access. Autonomous rotorcraft have been delivered to the US Army. Yet EMS, the healthcare profession that meets patients first, has been slower than any other part of healthcare to ...

What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation? If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture...

The blueprint of the modern world is hiding in plain sight. Do you really know how we got here? We live in a world of miracles. We carry the sum of human knowledge in our pockets, fly through the stratosphere, and edit the building blocks of life. But this world is not an accident. It is a machine, built layer by layer, invention by invention, by rebels and visionaries who refused to accept reality as they found it. HISTORY OF INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY Summarized is not a dry catalog of gadgets; it is the timeline of Disruption. Author Devon Kade and The Sum It Collective trace the invisible ...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A groundbreaking exploration of the shifting landscape of technological innovation and how it has transformed into a global phenomenon, challenging the traditional dominance of Silicon Valley. The US is the source of just about all the technologies that...

Descubre los secretos de la tecnología con el primer libro del divulgador de informática más famoso de Hispanoamérica. Piénsalo: gracias a los avances tecnológicos podemos hablar con alguien que esté a miles de kilómetros, predecir el tiempo, cruzar el planeta en cuestión de horas, conocer nuestro estado de salud, curar enfermedades graves, acceder al instante a más información de la que nunca seremos capaces de leer... ¡Si incluso hemos conseguido hacer que las máquinas aprendan!

How Ukraine Became the World's Largest Military AI Laboratory For centuries, military power depended on manpower, industrial capacity, geography, and wealth. Today, it increasingly depends on data. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an unprecedented military experiment has unfolded on the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Every drone flight, every artillery strike, every electronic warfare encounter, every success, and every failure has been recorded, analyzed, and transformed into knowledge. Ukraine has accumulated more than two million hours of battlefield footage and ...

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true? It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught...

This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...

Integrating AI into your business is key to your success… and if you don’t start incorporating it now, you’re going to be left behind. No matter what your experience or understanding is right now, you can harness the power of AI in your business… All you need is a strong foundation to build from – and you’re about to get everything you need to know to create it.