Resultados para "The Future" en Ciencias sociales

En un mundo que parece obsesionado con el apocalipsis, este libro es un antídoto contra el pesimismo. Héctor Socas es un astrofísico reconocido especialmente por su empeño en humanizar y divulgar la ciencia. Desde la solvencia científica de quien se ha pasado la vida estudiando el universo...

¿Sabes por qué la Inteligencia Artificial está cambiando el mundo y cómo puede transformar tu vida? Debes saber que acaba de surgir una nueva tecnología que vino a causar una revolución por completo en toda la población actual, queramos o no, debemos conocer de qué se trata y cómo podemos sacar el mejor provecho para nuestras actividades en todos los diversos ámbitos. Todo esto y más lo aprenderás con este contenido.

The first, foundational book on the next media renaissance, from one of the foremost thought leaders at the intersection of storytelling and technology. These days we don’t want to just watch our media—we want to be a part of it. To touch, feel, and test our surroundings, to make decisions...

UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MÁS ESPERADAS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE IRISH TIMES Y DAILY MAIL ¿A qué estaríamos dispuestos a renunciar para crear un mundo mejor? Un libro cuya inquietante imaginación atraviesa la página y no nos suelta hasta el final--The New York Times. «Un libro cuya...

Privilegiado, violento, opresor… cuando se juzga la figura masculina desde una perspectiva de género el veredicto es inequívoco: los hombres dominan la política, los negocios, las instituciones religiosas, numerosos ámbitos científicos y culturales, además de estar sobrerrepresentados como victimarios en las estadísticas de crimen violento y sexual. Sin embargo los varones también protagonizan la mayor parte de los suicidios, muertes laborales y víctimas de homicidio.

Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same. Global knowledge, personal stories, and natural science for repairing environmental harm...

In the beloved classic book The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the real issues of autism — the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. In this updated and expanded fifth edition, Temple offers helpful dos and don’ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research.

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in.

Un libro para todos los catastrofistas, neuróticos y pesimistas profesionales ¿Debemos temer al impacto de un asteroide, a una nueva pandemia, a una guerra mundial o a un colapso tecnológico? En un mundo dominado por titulares alarmantes, este libro planeta qué riesgos son reales y cuáles...

A grassroots tour of the nation's lesbian bars that illuminates their past, present, and hopeful future, from the co-creator of the hit podcast Cruising Lesbian bars are so much more than a place to get a drink. For over a century, they’ve acted as community posts, political organizing grounds...

Chris Impey conducts listeners across the vast, fast-developing field of astrobiology, surveying the dizzying advances carrying us ever closer to the discovery of life beyond Earth—and the prospect of humans living on another planet. With a view spanning astronomy, planetary science, geology, chemistry, and biology, Impey provides a state-of-the-art account of what's behind this accelerating progress, what's next, and what it might mean for humanity's future.

El impacto social y profesional del cambio laboral. Ya nada será como antes. Esta frase podría resumir algunas de las ideas de este libro de ágil lectura y profundo como pocos. En Automatizados se combinan una vocación académica, que permite navegar las aguas turbulentas del futuro del...

The mysterious civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis become reality as Shirley Andrews, the author of Atlantis: Insights From a Lost Civilization combines details from scholars, scientists and the respected psychic Edgar Cayce. Her sober portrayal of disturbing parallels between the spiritual...

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back.

As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing inequality is the single biggest threat to the transformative potential of AI. Not only is AI built on an unequal global system of power, it stands poised to entrench existing inequities, further consolidating a new age of empire.

The awesome potential of the human brain can only be tapped by providing the best possible learning environment at the earliest possible age. Scientific research has shown that television damages the full neural development of children's brains, crippling their capacity for symbol and metaphor. Pearce envisions a society in which our brains and spirits can develop to their highest potential.

The Future of War - which covers civil wars to as yet unknown nuclear conflicts, proxy wars (real) to the Cold War (not), fashionably small wars to the War to End All Wars (it didn't) - is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this postcapitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.

A fascinating, eye-opening, and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the United States—and the world—from one of our most incisive futurists George Friedman has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary...

Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces listeners to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives an insider's perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives.