Títulos en Historia y cultura

In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity. 

Eswar Prasad explains the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and indeed all of us. The transformation of money will fundamentally rewrite how ordinary people live. Above all, Prasad foresees the end of physical cash. The driving force won't be phones or credit cards but rather central banks, spurred by the emergence of cryptocurrencies to develop their own, more stable digital currencies.

Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

'Amazingly well researched, fabulously informative and an awful lot of fun. If you love Japanese culture or are just curious to know more I can't recommend this book highly enough' Jonathan Ross 'A nerd- and generalist-friendly look at how Japan shaped the post-World War II world, from toys to...

Separating fiction from fact, award-winning author Daniel Alef, tells the true story of Zuckerberg's meteoric rise and his indelible mark on the evolution of American culture through social networking and now advertising. The curly-haired wunderkind rubs elbows with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Graham, and other prominent players in today's business, technological, and media world and is an emerging philanthropist.

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.

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.

An expansive vision for data equality that goes beyond algorithmic fairness. When we gave algorithms power over our world, we hoped that the apparent neutrality of machine thinking would create a more egalitarian age. Yet we are more divided than ever, staring down threats to democracy itself...

What happens when the systems we build start forgetting the people they were meant to serve? With nearly 30 years in cybersecurity and technology leadership, Joshua A. Gideon has spent his career at the intersection of digital systems and human decision-making—and he's seen what happens when we get that balance wrong. In Don't Forget the Humans, he draws on hard-won experience to make an urgent case: the most critical failures in technology aren't technical. They're human. This book is part professional reckoning, part memoir, and part roadmap.

Metaverso es un acrónimo compuesto por meta, un término griego que significa “más allá” y verso que hace referencia a “universo”, por lo cual significa “el universo que está más allá”, entendiendo que se refiere a entornos donde los humanos interactúan social y económicamente como avatares en un ciberespacio sin las limitaciones del mundo físico y compuesto por múltiples espacios virtuales tridimensionales compartidos.

Estamos frente a una nueva revolución industrial, un proceso siempre traumático en el corto plazo que en el medio y el largo acaba mereciendo la pena, generando mucho empleo y devolviendo la esperanza a quienes nacieron sin ella o la dejaron por el camino. Desafortunadamente, saberlo no minimiza el trauma social, por lo que "No te vas a morir" llega para apoyar a todos aquellos que apuesten por sumarse a este fenómeno, sea cual sea su edad, profesión o experiencia laboral, porque en estos momentos hay espacio para todos.

Primeros inicios del hombre para volar. Globos aerostáticos. Historia. Dirigibles. Aviones: Leonardo Da Vinci. Primer vuelo de un avión con motor. Aviones monocasco. Primera Guerra Mundial: el Douglas DC3. Segunda Guerra Mundial: motor a reacción. El Concorde. Aviones sin motor. Helicópteros.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the relentless stream of digital noise and the constant headlines about how artificial intelligence is changing the world overnight? If you have ever felt curious but deeply skeptical about AI, or worried that it is too complicated for your daily routine, you are not alone. In "AI Made Simple," Molly Boulware strips away the hype, fear, and dense technical jargon to show you that AI is not a magical entity to be feared, but a highly capable, everyday digital companion.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing...

Brought to you by Penguin. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material...

¿Te abruman las complejidades de la inteligencia artificial? ¿Intrigado por la tecnología pero no sabes por dónde empezar? "IA Generativa para principiantes: Una guía sencilla" es tu camino para transformar la curiosidad en habilidades prácticas, ¡sin experiencia previa!

In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon. An oxygen tank exploded, a crewmate uttered the now iconic words, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched as one of history’s most incredible rescue missions unfolded. Haise brings listeners into the heart of his experience on the challenging mission—considered NASA’s finest hour—and reflects on his life and career as an Apollo astronaut.

A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.

In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions - in communications, business, and many areas of daily life - are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call “networks” - the physical links that bind any society together.