AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexity of language, and decides which of your friends' Facebook posts you most want to see. In the coming years, it...
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Auteur:Kingwell, MarkSommaire:Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that...
- Auteur:Vermond, KiraSommaire:
Science starts with a question in this fascinating compendium for curious kids. The team behind the acclaimed Why Don't Cars Run on Apple Juice? is back to tackle more kid questions like "Are birds really dinosaurs?" and "Why do we have...
- Auteur:Pinsker, SarahSommaire:
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes...
- Auteur:Vryenhoek, LeslieSommaire:
In 1977, a young woman swipes a duffel bag of drug money and flees her bad-news boyfriend, hitching a ride with a long-haul trucker who points out satellites and enthuses about the future of space cargo. Building a life disconnected...
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Auteur:Fox, ThomasSommaire:It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby...
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Auteur:Smith, BradSommaire:With a foreword by Bill Gates From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of...
- Auteur:Moreno, Gus.Sommaire:
A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from Gus Moreno. It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart...
- Auteur:Carey, M. R.Sommaire:
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts, and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into...
- Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:
In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills even if the extreme steps taken by his battle-hardened mentor Herb, his police chief mom, and the other leaders in the name of security and...
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Auteur:Taylor, Charles, Cayley, DavidSommaire:In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as the corruption of the best is the worst, is...
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Auteur:Franklin, Ursula M.Sommaire:In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World...
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Auteur:Drayden, NickySommaire:In South Africa, the future looks promising. In the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming, thanks to the genetic engineering industry, which has found a welcome home there. But, there are significant challenges...
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Auteur:Klise, KateSommaire:With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
- Auteur:Erickson, JohnSommaire:
A fifth-generation Texan and longtime cattle rancher, John R. Erickson is the Lamplighter Award-winning author of over 50 books on Western life. In The Modern Cowboy, he paints a vivid and comprehensive portrait of today's cowboy- with...
- Auteur:Crook, ChristinaSommaire:
The author examines how the new technological world impacts our lives.
- Auteur:Kotler, Steven, Diamandis, Peter H.Sommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler...
- Auteur:Carey, M. R.Sommaire:
Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following--the mysterious "Sword of Albion"--there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're...
- Auteur:Suleyman, MustafaSommaire:
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will...
- Auteur:Egan, JenniferSommaire:
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and...
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