Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas

Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.\nThe history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers--from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheistic religion to quantum theory. And yet for the past few decades, apart from a rush of new gadgets and the explosion of digital technology, world-changing ideas have been harder to come by. Since the 1970s, big ideas have happened incrementally--recycled, focused in narrow bands of innovation. In this provocative book, Michael Bhaskar looks at why the flow of big, world-changing ideas has slowed, and what this means for the future.\nBhaskar argues that the challenge at the frontiers of knowledge has arisen not because we are unimaginative and bad at realizing big ideas but because we have already pushed so far. If we compare the world of our great-great-great-grandparents to ours today, we can see how a series of transformative ideas revolutionized almost everything in just a century and a half. But recently, because of short-termism, risk aversion, and fractious decision making, we have built a cautious, unimaginative world. Bhaskar shows how we can start to expand the frontier again by thinking big--embarking on the next Universal Declaration of Human Rightsor Apollo mission--and embracing change.

Michael Bhaskar

The Bridge Street Press

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Curation

Little, Brown Book Group

Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess

Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Piatkus Books

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

Vintage

The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering\nA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind\nWe are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.\nSoon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks-operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability.\nWe are not prepared.\nAs cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution, one poised to become the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. Driven by overwhelming strategic and commercial incentives, these tools will help address our global challenges and create vast wealth-but also upheaval on a once unimaginable scale.\nIn The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces threaten the grand bargain of the nation state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms arising from unchecked openness on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?\nIn this groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman establishes "the containment problem"-the task of maintaining control over powerful 
technologies-as the essential challenge of our age.

Bodley Head

La era digital se caracteriza por la sobre información y el exceso de datos. La ausencia referencial y la inmediatez a la que el ser humano se está habituando, dificultan la dilucidación de la calidad de los contenidos en todos los ámbitos de los individuos. Esta obra recupera desde una visión por un lado, histórica, y por otro, pragmática, la evolución del contexto digital y traza un camino para la creación en un mundo de excesos basado en el concepto de curaduría.

Curaduría. El poder de la selección en un mundo de excusas (Comunicación) (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Human Frontiers By Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave By Mustafa Suleyman 2 Books Collection Set

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

The Bridge Street Press/Bodley Head Ltd

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