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"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees...
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"A Wall Street Journal reporter travels the globe to tell the story behind the misleadingly simple phrase online shoppers increasingly take for granted: "arriving today." From factory laborers in Vietnam to longshoremen at the port of LA to truckers crawling our interstate highways to robots lurking in Amazon's "dark warehouses," here is an eye-opening investigation of the way online commerce is reshaping the globe, rewriting the rules of business,...
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"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps?...
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Delving into the depths of history and the boundless realms of imagination, Nouraee takes readers on a thought-provoking voyage through the stories of remarkable inventions that have shaped our world. From the wheel to the internet, each chapter unveils the ingenuity and perseverance of individuals who dared to dream beyond the constraints of their time.
Through vivid narratives and insightful analysis, Nouraee uncovers the secrets behind these...
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The Author is a Chartered Surveyor and Arbitrator and has been in the Quantity Surveying field for the last 40 years. The book deals with construction irregularities ,frauds and the necessity for Technical Auditing of construction projects. The construction industry is huge expanding and expected to reach in excess of US $ 12 Trillion by 2020. The bulk of this amounts shall come from emerging markets and from public money. Still Construction Auditing...
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The robot is upon us: The future is so near and yet so far. In this book we take a brief glimpse into the Munich of the future. Above all, technical development alone will ensure that city life will be different from today – Although we cannot yet fly to the supermarket the fundamental image of a city is radically changing. To give a brief insight into the year 2050, however, we must first travel back in time and understand developments that have...
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Las bibliotecas pblicas tienen un papel ideolgico de favorecer las relaciones sociales y con una gran responsabilidad de contribuir a la formacin y satisfaccin de necesidades e intereses de la comunidad en la cual est inserta. Las tecnologas de la informacin han introducido cambios tan significativos que las bibliotecas no han podido permanecer ajenas a ellos. Estas han sido y son las motivadoras de cambios en las bibliotecas pblicas, por lo que deben...
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A pandemic is a biological war with an invisible enemy. COVID-19 is World War 3, where a biological holocaust is occurring on our social media feeds in real time. After every world war there is a period of post-war reconstruction. The New Digital World Order presents a post-pandemic reconstruction guide on how the world can build back better, politically, socially, economically, culturally and environmentally. COVID-19 has been the best Chief Digital...
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Best Practices and Strategies for Career and Technical Education and Training is a reference guide for novice instructors. It contains a basic overview of the mission, goals and evolution of career and technical education and training as well as a practical guide of effective instructional and team practices and strategies. The book is intended for new educators and trainers interested in classroom management and leadership techniques to achieve instructional...
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We live in a fast-paced, materialistic world where the desire to 'acquire' appears to have taken precedence over everything else. In our high-tech society, electronic devices practically think for us. Whilst governments grapple with solutions to control global climate, we continue polluting our beautiful planet to the point of endangering its ecological balance and survival. Man has patented over one million chemicals, yet illness and disease have...
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Hacking the Valley by Andrew Medal highlights the major trends, prominent people and most disruptive companies from the tech sector during April 2011-2013. Reading the book will give you an in-depth, and insider knowledge of the strategies, tips, tricks and hacks that contributed to the success of the companies and people showcased during this time.
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On a beautiful summer day it came to my mind. The idea of fixing the rodenticide pollution problem that has been lingering in me for so long. My story is based on non-fiction facts through experimentation and field testing to create an Environment Friendly Rodent Bait. God and Mother Earth provided all the answers, that I needed, to help me on the path, to accomplish my dream. This book is an inspirational journey of my views and findings to help...
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I am Stephen A Michael . And if I Suggest to you that you could make a cell arrangement, to utilize all you have learned & research from all these great people and more out their trying , to achieve in what the HHO industry calls a Booster or if you are me calling it what it is a Generator that produces gas or maybe My design tis a Generator . Because it really is much more, being a pump design using chemical induced therm o electromagnetic technology...
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This revealing book by futurist Tony Tan is your primer to the incredible world of artificial intelligence (AI) and what it will do in the near future.
Co-founder and CEO of Imperium Solutions, Tony will share the integral relationship between human and machine and how it can help us innovate, improve, and advance at an exponential rate. All these advances must come with a corresponding development of our own thought and consciousness so that they...
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So You Want to Be An Engineer? Is a book for anyone who is or who wants to be an Engineer. The book reveals everything nobody else will tell you about the engineering profession. It shows how to save the reader the agony of on the job trial and error training and will give them a head start in using experienced strategies while dealing with technicians, draftsman, marketing, purchasing and manufacturing personnel, and project managers. It doesn't...
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Digital information and data processing, storage and transmission are already at the core of most modern enterprises and most individuals have significant digital footprints. Computer-based information networks operating in cyber-space (interconnected on the Internet) are at the core of modern businesses many of which operate across countries and continents. Government and human development enterprises (health, education, etc.) depend critically...
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Software is driving most technology today, from PCs to mobile phones to thermostats. Software can evolve quickly, and that factor is driving an accelerating pace of change in technology. Software is also becoming more tightly connected to humans through advances in dealing with speech and human language, as well as being always available through mobile devices. As our connection to technology tightens, it drives rapid cultural evolution, in effect...
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Each Problem Solver is an insightful and essential study and solution guide chock-full of clear, concise problem-solving gems. All your questions can be found in one convenient source from one of the most trusted names in reference solution guides. More useful, more practical, and more informative, these study aids are the best review books and textbook companions available. Nothing remotely as comprehensive or as helpful exists in their subject anywhere....
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