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Global Viewpoints eBook Series

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  • Examining Internet and Technology around the World

    Edited by Laura M. Steckman ...
    Series series Global Viewpoints
    This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives.This volume examines issues pertaining to the internet and technology, including access and censorship, alternative energy technologies, artificial ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

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    The New York Times–bestselling author describes how current trends will create an era when anything and everything is available for almost nothing.In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times–bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive ... Read more

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  • The New Digital Age

    Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

    In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s ... Read more

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  • 2030

    How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWall Street Journal BestsellerA Porchlight Book BestsellerFinancial Times Best Books of 2020Yahoo Finance Favorite Business Books of 2020JP Morgan NextList 2021 selection"Bold, provocative...illuminates why we're having fewer babies, the middle class is stagnating, unemployment is shifting, and new powers are rising."— ADAM GRANTThe world i... ... Read more

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  • The Industries of the Future

    by Alec Ross ...
    The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya ... Read more

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  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

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  • The Hype Machine

    How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How WeMust Adapt

    by Sinan Aral ...
    A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond“The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral’s three predictions have come to fruition.”—New YorkNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED • LONGLISTED FOR ... Read more

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  • Macrowikinomics

    New Solutions for a Connected Planet

    In their bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace.This sequel shows that in more than a dozen fields—from finance to health care, science to education, the media to the environment—we have reached a historic turning point. Collaborative ... Read more

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  • The Digital Silk Road

    China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

    An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow’s networks.From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding ... Read more

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  • Progressive Capitalism

    How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

    by Ro Khanna ...
    Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, “progressive” (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people” (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics) ... Read more

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  • Rule of the Robots

    How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

    by Martin Ford ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over our livesIf you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to ... Read more

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  • The Immigrant Exodus

    Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

    by Vivek Wadhwa ...
    A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more

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