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Publisher: UM Libraries
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143120174
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision of technology as a living force that can expand our individual potential In this provocative book, one of today's most respected thinkers turns the conversation about technology on its head by viewing technology as a natural system, an extension of biological evolution. By mapping the behavior of life, we paradoxically get a glimpse at where technology is headed-or "what it wants." Kevin Kelly offers a dozen trajectories in the coming decades for this near-living system. And as we align ourselves with technology's agenda, we can capture its colossal potential. This visionary and optimistic book explores how technology gives our lives greater meaning and is a must-read for anyone curious about the future.

Author: James A. Herrick
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 160235877X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

Author: Philip Cooke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415686466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Résumé : "Reframing regional development : complex systems integration, "emergence", and policy modularisation / Philip Cooke -- Evolutionary transition space -- A world in emergence : notes toward a resynthesis of urban-economic geography for the 21st / Century Allen J. Scott -- Regional resilience, cross-sectoral knowledge platforms and the prospects for growth in Canadian city-regions / David A. Wolfe -- Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes / Ron Martin and Peter Sunley -- Strange attractors and policy emergence : complex adaptive innovation / Philip Cooke -- Innovation and diversity -- The health technologies sector in Oxfordshire : evolution or optimism in regional development? / Helen Lawton-Smith -- Reframing regional innovation systems : evolution, complexity, and public policy / Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan -- Path dependence and new technological path creation in the economic landscape / James Simmie -- Proximity and innovation networks : an evolutionary approach / Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Ron Boschma, and Koen Frenken -- Cluster emergence and destabilisation -- Foresight and innovation : emergence and resilience of the cleantech cluster at Lahti, Finland / Helinä Melkas and Tuomo Uotila -- "Twilight of the gods" : the rise of Asia Pacific and Californian convergent media and the demise of Nordic Mobile Telephony in the ICT global innovation network / Philip Cooke -- The remarkable resilience of cities of art : the challenge of a new renaissance in Florence / Luciana Lazzeretti -- Socio-cultural dynamics in spatial policy : explaining the on-going success of cluster politics / Dieter Rehfeld and Judith Terstriep -- Evolutionary spatial policy -- Transformation of regional innovation systems : from old legacies to new development paths / Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl -- Path dependence and the state : the politics of novelty in old industrial regions / Kevin Morgan -- City-regions, innovation, and universities : the evolution and transition of uk urban governance institutions / Fumi Kitagawa."

Author: Thomas, Brychan Celfyn
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 152257722X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Social capital as a concept, is a comparatively recent addition to the regional economic and innovation literature. Facets of social capital are generally acknowledged to include trust, collaboration, cooperation, bridging and bonding social network ties, and reciprocity. Nevertheless, forms of social capital such as bonding and bridging social capital, are less frequently explored in the literature. Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems breaks down the concept of innovation into its main components, which represent a spectrum of innovation activity from technology-based innovation to hidden and social innovation, in order to support executives concerned with innovation and social capital in different work communities and environments. Highlighting a range of topics including regional development, social innovation, network capital, and more, this book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals, students, policymakers, and practitioners.

Author: Peter K. Fallon
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666723754
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Since the US presidential election of 2016 the words propaganda and fake news have been prominent in American political and cultural discourse. Yet very few people can provide a coherent explanation of what they mean, precisely, when using them. On the two sides of the political spectrum ("red" and "blue"), each points out messages from the other side that they think are untrue--or that they simply don't like. Unlike our dangerously biased political system, however, reality has more than only two sides. For decades, Americans sat by while their mediated world was carved into a single "red reality" focused in necessary opposition to a single "blue reality." We've been given "red media outlets" and "blue media outlets" to stoke our collective rage, each against the other's lies. But the first two decades of the twenty-first century have presented us with a new information environment, one of unregulated and seemingly uncontrollable information. Like the young boy in a popular folktale, we can now see--if only we can resist the pressures of social conformity--that both emperors, red and blue, strut proudly before us, naked. Propaganda 2.1 is a handbook for seeing reality clearly--and coping with it.

Author: Dean S. Hartley III
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030601846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains—land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger contest for power; a contest for cognitive superiority. Written by experts in military operations research and neuropsychology, this book introduces the concept of cognitive superiority and provides the keys to succeeding within a complex matrix where the only rules are the laws of physics, access to information, and the boundaries of cognition. The book describes the adversarial environment and how it interacts with the ongoing, accelerating change that we are experiencing, irrespective of adversaries. It talks about the ascendant power of information access, pervasive surveillance, personalized persuasion, and emerging new forms of cognition. It profiles salient technologies and science, including persuasion science, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), surveillance technologies, complex adaptive systems, network science, directed human modification, and biosecurity. Readers will learn about human and machine cognition, what makes it tick, and why and how we and our technologies are vulnerable. Following in the tradition of Sun-Tsu and von Clausewitz, this book writes a new chapter in the study of warfare and strategy. It is written for those who lead, aspire to leadership, and those who teach or persuade, especially in the fields of political science, military science, computer science, and business.

Author: Franca Trubiano
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131751033X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 681

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Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author’s fascination with the voices of architects, engineers, builders, and craftspeople whose ideas about building have been captured in text. It discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to the art of building. In this, Building Theories argues for the return of a practice of architectural theory that is set amongst building, buildings, and builders. This journey of close reading reinterprets the words of Vitruvius, Alberti, de L’Orme, Le Camus de Mézières, Boullée, Laugier, Rondelet, Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, Hübsch, Bötticher, Berlage, Muthesius, Wagner, Behrendt, Gropius, and Arup. With chapters dedicated to texts from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, and with a critical eye on architectural theory popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world post-1968, readers are introduced to a wider, more inclusive definition of architectural ideas. Building Theories considers how contemporary scholarship has steered away from the topic of building in its reluctance to admit that both design and construction are central to its concerns. In response, it argues for a realignment of architecture with the concept of techné, with a dual commitment to fabrica e ratio, with a productive return to l’art de bien bastir, with the accurate translation of the term Baukunst, and with an appeal to the architect’s ‘composite mind.’ Students, practitioners, and educators will identify in Building Theories ways of thinking that strive for the integration of design with construction; reject the supposed primacy of the former over the latter; recognize how aesthetics are an insufficient scaffold for subtending the subject of architectural ethics; and accept, without reservation, that material transformations have always been at the origins of built form.

Author: David Higgins
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787695794
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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The book draws upon new theoretical perspectives and approaches as a means of illustrating the inherently social and contextualized nature of entrepreneurial practice, and advance the manner in which we critically think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.

Author: Chris Mays
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271080337
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge making. Rather than simply mapping posthumanist rhetorics onto Burke’s scholarship, Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman focuses on the multiplicity of ideas found both in his work and in the idea of posthumanism. Taking varied approaches organized within a framework of boundaries and futures, the contributors show that studying the humanist theories of Burke in this way creates a satisfyingly chaotic web of interconnections. The essays look at how Burke’s writing on the human mind and technology, from his earliest works to his very latest revisions, interrelates with current concepts such as new materiality and coevolution. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention to the fluidity, concerns, and contradictions inherent in language, symbolism, and subjectivity. A unique, illuminating exploration of the contested relationship between bodies and language, this inherently transdisciplinary book will propel important future inquiry by scholars of rhetoric, Burke, and posthumanism. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Casey Boyle, Kristie Fleckenstein, Nathan Gale, Julie Jung, Steven B. Katz, Steven LeMieux, Jodie Nicotra, Jeff Pruchnic, Timothy Richardson, Thomas Rickert, and Robert Wess.