Resultados para "Connect" en Historia y cultura

What if you could walk into any room, connect with anyone in minutes, and build relationships that could one day save your life, even as A.I. tries to make you obsolete? You wake up and reach for a screen. You drive to work staring at a screen. You "connect" with friends through a screen, scroll past a thousand faces a day, and still, when you lie awake at 2 a.m. with your chest tight, you feel like there is no one who would understand if you called. You are not imagining it. We are lonelier than we have ever been.

In this book, Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in various industries, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways - respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution - for turning episodic interactions into continuous relationships. The authors show how each pathway creates a competitive advantage, then guide you through the critical decisions for creating and implementing your own connected strategies. 

Was creating the internet one big mistake? From data collection to unclear privacy policies, our lives in the internet ecosystem are constantly evolving. Listen in as Wisecrack breaks down the digital world in this curated collection, available for the first time in audio.

In Connected, Hannah Waldram, Ed Walker and Marc Thomas explore examples from across the world which demonstrate that social media is a hugely powerful tool, but it is when it combines with physical communities - spurring action, amplifying a message, organizing movements - that it becomes truly transformative. It is a fascinating insight into how communities can be so much greater than the sum of their parts, and how the power of the internet has become seamlessly woven into community action.

What happens when the human need to belong becomes the most profitable machine on Earth? A Brief Story of Facebook tells the extraordinary rise of a Harvard dorm-room project that grew into one of the most powerful platforms in history. What began as a college directory became a global empire of profiles, feeds, likes, data, advertising, influence, and social control.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Imagine a wave rolling toward us – it can carry us to unimagined heights or hit us with full force. That is the digital revolution. It is changing our society, our economy, our lives. But who is shaping it? We are. This audiobook takes you on a...

Companies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if "machines" like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time?  

By utilising the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected will provide a blueprint for how to use social health to foster well-being and productivity. At every level, each person, department and organisation is struggling to find a way to navigate this challenging era; Fully Connected will be a blueprint for anyone looking to reclaim time, space and identity in our world.

Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.

Embrace simple home automation that effortlessly boosts everyday comfort, household security, and energy efficiency. Whether you are unwinding after a long commute or managing busy family routines, you do not need to be a tech wizard to modernize your space. This practical audio guide replaces...

Uncover the thrilling technology history of how secret Cold War projects and rebel engineers wired our global society. Perfect for an informative morning commute, this engaging origin story reveals the invisible infrastructure powering your everyday life. Track the evolution of human...

Trace the sweeping economic history of human trade from isolated villages to today’s sprawling global supply chains. Perfect for your morning commute, this thought-provoking journey reveals how ancient merchants and modern financiers forged the invisible networks that dictate our modern lives...

Turn your daily commute into an epic journey through ancient history by walking Rome’s ultimate engineering marvel. Experience the sweeping saga of an imperial superpower told not through static kings, but through the vital physical artery that sustained their relentless conquests. Perfect for...

Uncover the high-stakes cybersecurity arms race that transformed vulnerable military networks into our digital world. Perfect for your daily commute, this tense technology history reveals the hidden battlegrounds of secrecy, signaling, and control. Discover how Cold War paranoia sparked a...

For the second time in human history, we are on the verge of broad new breakthroughs in health, productivity, and personal freedom. And many-to-many networks are the reason. In business, government, and war, information is no longer the privilege of a powerful few. Now everyone knows what anyone knows, and we are applying that diversity of experience and perspective to expand the frontiers of our lives. We are starting to think together.

Read by the author. Join the Challenge: One Thousand Unplugged Hours in One Year Former social media addict, Hannah Brencher discovered first-hand that turning off her phone had a substantial impact on her mental health, relationships, time management, and outlook on the world. Like so many of...

Everything is a computer. Ovens are computers that make things hot; refrigerators are computers that keep things cold. These computers - from home thermostats to chemical plants - are all online. All computers can be hacked. And Internet-connected computers are the most vulnerable. Forget data theft: Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality.

“We’ve all been desperate to learn what heavy use of social media does to adolescents. Now, thanks to Twenge’s careful analysis, we know: It is making them lonely, anxious, and fragile—especially our girls. If you are a parent, teacher, or employer, you must read this fascinating book...

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015 One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries...