Videnskabens og teknologiens påvirkning af samfundet

"Vaclav Smil lleva cincuenta aänos estudiando las posibilidades que tenemos a nuestro alcance para garantizar el futuro energâetico de nuestro planeta. Debido a la complejidad de las interacciones que mueven el mundo, la atomizaciâon del conocimiento y la volatilidad de la informaciâon es muy difâicil anticipar con exactitud quâe ocurrirâa. Por eso es necesario ceänirse a los datos y a los lâimites que nos ofrece la ciencia, asâi como poner la atenciâon en los escenarios mâas cercanos y menos idealistas para encarar los retos actuales de manera eficaz. Asâi pues, este libro aborda temas tan importantes como la improbable y difâicil tarea de descarbonizar el planeta, en parte por la estrecha relaciâon entre la producciâon de alimentos y los combustibles fâosiles, pero tambiâen destapa realidades incâomodas, como la dependencia de las economâias modernas respecto de la alta producciâon de amonâiaco, metal, cemento y plâastico. Ademâas, examina de quâe forma el calentamiento global puede afectar a nuestras necesidades bâasicas para sobrevivir y anima a reevaluar los riesgos que hemos subestimado o exagerado a lo largo de los aänos para aprender a vivir mâas y mejor. Câomo funciona el mundo es literalmente un libro sobre câomo funciona el mundo. Por su estructura y clarividencia, sirve como una guâia interdisciplinaria que evita a toda costa dar eco a las posturas extremas y propone una respuesta objetiva, cientâifica y razonada a todos los titulares que nos generan ansiedad: la crisis climâatica, la crisis energâetica, la crisis de materias primas, la globalizaciâon y el futuro de nuestra civilizaciâon. El resultado es un poderoso ensayo que combina los mâas recientes descubrimientos cientâificos y el trabajo de quien ha investigado a lo largo de medio siglo los retos energâeticos a los que nos enfrentamos" --

"A practical guide for business leaders to learn from moments of crisis and advance their digital capabilities"--

"Argues that a heterosexual bias is deeply embedded in the infrastructure of the Internet, with negative effects for society. In short, the Internet is straight"--

Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle draws together international experts from engineering and architecture to disclose the latest insights into forging viable means to sustain tomorrow's needs.

"Do numbers have a life of their own or do we give them meaning? How do data play a role in constructing people's perceptions of the world around them? How far can we trust numbers to speak truth to power? The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique moment to answer these questions. This book examines how politicians, experts and journalists gave meaning to data through the story of seven iconic numbers from the pandemic. Shedding light on a new dawn of data, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between numbers, meaning and society."--

This edited volume transcends technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how science, technology, and engineering have transformed human experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics, religion, and policy.

?Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.??The New Yorker?A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals?and, ultimately, at ourselves.??Chicago TribuneUpdated for the first time in nearly 50 years, this mainstay of the animal rights movement includes the most recent information about humanity's relationship to animals, including the explosion of factory farming worldwide, and why our cruelty towards them persists.One of the most influential books of the past half century, Peter Singer's Animal Liberation has only grown in relevance and popularity since its original publication in 1975. Named one of Time magazine's ?All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books,? this groundbreaking work has awakened millions to ?speciesism??humans' systematic disregard of nonhuman animals. Singer inspired a worldwide movement, transforming our careless attitude toward animals and helping to reduce and hopefully eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation, Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's factory farms and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and exposing just how woefully we have been misled.Now, in this updated edition?revised from top to bottom?Singer brings us to the current moment, covering important reforms in the European Union and individual U.S. states. But he shows us how these measures are offset by the explosion of factory farming caused by unprecedented demand for animal products in China. Singer also explores how meat consumption is negatively impacting the earth, and reveals how factory farms pose a profound risk for spreading new viruses worse than Covid-19. In addition, Singer offers alternatives we can use to address this profound environmental, social, and moral issue.

"First published by Penguin Random House India."--Title page verso.

A surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence, Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which computational intelligence compensates for the well-recognized limits of human judgment, improves decision making, and actually increases our agency. In artful, accessible, and adventurous prose, Neuman takes the reader on an exciting, fast-paced ride, all the while making a convincing case about a revolution in computationally augmented human intelligence.Neuman argues that, just as the wheel made us mobile and machines made us stronger, the migration of artificial intelligence from room-sized computers to laptops to our watches, smart glasses, and even smart contact lenses will transform day-to-day human decision making. If intelligence is the capacity to match means with ends, then augmented intelligence can offer the ability to adapt to changing environments as we face the ultimate challenge of long-term survival.Tapping into a global interest in technology’s potential impacts on society, economics, and culture, Evolutionary Intelligence demonstrates that our future depends on our ability to computationally compensate for the limitations of a human cognitive system that has only recently graduated from hunting and gathering.

A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data through our digital devices is an increasingly recognizable field in which the lines between caretaking and control have blurred. In this age of surveillance, mothers' behaviors and bodies are observed, made public, exposed, scrutinized, and policed like never before. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance gathers together the work of fifty contributors from diverse disciplines that include the visual arts, legal scholarship, ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, poetry, and activism to ask what the relationship is between how we watch and how we are watched, and how the attention that mothers pay to their children might foster a kind of counterattention to the many ways in which mothers are scrutinized.A groundbreaking collection, Supervision is a project about vision (and supervision), and all the ways in which vision intersects with surveillance and politics, through motherhood and personal history as well as through the histories and relations of the societies in which we live.Contributors:Melina Abdullah, Jeny Amaya, Gemma, Anderson, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Sarah Blackwood, Lisa Cartwright, Cary Beth Cryor, Moyra Davey, Duae Collective, Sabba Elahi, Laura Fong Prosper, Regina José Galindo, Michele Goodwin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lily Gurton-Wachter, Sophie Hamacher, Jessica Hankey, Keeonna Harris, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Jennifer Hayashida, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Lisbeth Kaiser, Magdalena Kallenberger, Caitlin Keliiaa, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Stephanie Lumsden, Irene Lusztig, Tala Madani, Jade Phoenix Martinez, Mónica Mayer, Iman Mersal, Jennifer C. Nash, Hương Ngô, Erika Niwa, Priscilla Ocen, Litia Perta, Claudia Rankine, Viva Ruiz, Ming Smith, Sable Elyse Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Stephanie Syjuco, Hồng-Ân Trương, Carrie Mae Weems, Lauren Whaley, Kandis Williams, Mai'a Williams, Carmen Winant, Kate Wolf, and Hannah Zeavin

Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset looks at impact from inside the research sector, celebrating the opportunity to make a difference whilst recognising the challenges this brings.

This book emphasizes the fact that our very lives could just be a simulated environment created by an advanced race. The book is based on a published hypothesis from MIT, and the concept has been recognized by many. It is a short book, which lays emphasis on 4 main chapters that involve many concepts related to the subject. These subjects discuss Simulation Theory, God, Our place in The Simulation, and Time and Existence.