Resultados Editorial "Basic Books" en Ingeniería

A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage...

A Chernobyl survivor and New York Times bestselling author delivers the definitive history of the worst nuclear accident in history. “The most comprehensive and convincing history of Chernobyl yet to appear in English.” ―Financial Times On the morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the...

In this sequel to his prescient New York Times best seller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of 'electricity of intelligence' that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with advanced science being done by machines who can solve problems humans can not. AI has the potential to help us fight climate change or the next pandemic, but it also has a capacity for profound harm.