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Get the Summary of Cade Metz's Genius Makers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit...
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Get the Summary of Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan's AI 2041 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment....
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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Michael S. Malone's The Big Score in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley-from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all. Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most important sectors of the global economy, and Silicon Valley-replete with sprawling office parks, sky-high...
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Get the Summary of Eric Siegel's The AI Playbook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The AI Playbook" provides a comprehensive guide to deploying machine learning (ML) projects successfully, emphasizing the importance of a strategic approach that integrates business and technical expertise. The book introduces bizML, a six-phase framework that includes defining the value proposition, setting precise prediction goals,...
6) Summary of Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Tech
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Get the Summary of Guillaume Pitron's The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen countries, this book cuts...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Jackson's The Essence of Software in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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As our dependence on technology increases, the design of software matters more than ever before. Why then is so much software flawed? Why hasn't there been a systematic and scalable way to create software that is easy to use, robust, and secure?
Examining these issues in depth, The Essence...
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#1 On October 19, 1899, a seventeen-year-old boy climbed a cherry tree and had an epiphany. He imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device that could travel to Mars. He dedicated his life to the dream of perfecting a rocket that would make this vision a reality.
#2 The first pioneer was the Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who mapped out the...
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Book Preview: #1 The landscape has changed in three ways: technology got its hands on some steroids, we use tiny computers that we carry around with us all the time, and they're phones, too.
#2 The Web itself has improved over the years. In 2000, not many people understood the importance of usability. Now, thanks in large part to Steve Jobs, almost everyone understands that it's important,...
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Get the Summary of Jay David Bolter's Reality Media in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media-the latest in a series of what they term "reality media," taking their places alongside film and television. Reality...
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#1 I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation.
#2 The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the...
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Get the Summary of Darren Lau's How to DeFi: Beginner in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: How to DeFi: Beginner, Second Edition, is the 2021 updated version of How to DeFi (March 2020). DeFi is an ecosystem of decentralized applications that provide financial services built on top of distributed networks with no governing authority. By April 2021, DeFi applications have locked up over...
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#1 In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. The Soviet Union was close to landing its own crew on the Moon, which mattered because the nation that landed the first men on the Moon would win the Space Race and be in position to land a man on the Moon first.
#2 Borman was in charge of testing...
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Book Preview:The preoccupation with efficiency and optimization in big tech companies has come at the expense of core human values.
System Error (2021) lays forth actions that may be taken to alter the future, rebuild our democracy, and save humanity. Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein uncover the source of our present predicament: how big tech's obsessive drive...
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Get the Summary of Nicolas Cole's The Art and Business of Online Writing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Nicolas Cole, one of the most viral columnists on the internet with more than 100 million views on his writing, is pulling back the curtain. After becoming the #1 most-read writer on all of Quora in 2015, a Top 10 contributing writer for Inc Magazine from 2016 to 2018, and one...
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Get the Summary of Chet Haase's Androids in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software. But they couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, shipping an operating system (including camera software) to over three billion devices worldwide.
This is the inside story, told by the people who made it...
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Get the Summary of Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup...
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#1 The metal aluminum was rare for most of history, until it was discovered in 1825 by Hans Christian Oersted and Frederick Wohler. It was then used in the Hall-Héroult process, which liberated aluminum from bauxite.
#2 Scarcity is often contextual. For example, imagine a giant orange tree packed with fruit. If I pluck all the oranges from the lower branches, I am out...
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Get the Summary of Adam Atler's Irresistible in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction-an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Russell's Human Compatible in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last.
In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline...
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