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1) Confronting climate gridlock: how diplomacy, technology, and policy can unlock a clean energy future
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Atmospheric scientist and environmental engineering professor Daniel Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of climate change will first require American diplomacy, technological innovation, and policy to catalyze decarbonization globally. Combining his own expertise alongside insights from more than 100 interviews with diplomats, scholars, and clean-technology pioneers, Cohan identifies flaws in previous efforts to combat climate change. He...
Author
Series
ACRL publications in librarianship volume no. 70
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
3) Social machines: the coming collision of artificial intelligence, social networking, and humanity
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Will your next doctor be a human being-or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it? This book introduces the reader to the pitfalls and promises of artificial intelligence in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of systems to "reach off the Web" into the real world. The convergence of AI, social networking, and modern computing is creating an historic inflection point in the partnership between human...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A smart, lively history of the world economy, seen through the crucial inventions that shaped it. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? What is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? In [this book], author and economist Tim Harford paints an epic yet intimate picture of economic change by telling the stories of the ideas, people, and tools that...