Tales From 2040

Author : Christopher Cardinal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940100005
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales From 2040 written by Christopher Cardinal and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short stories from a brighter future tell how the leaders of today could use capitalism to help solve some of the world's toughest problems... and make a fortune in the process.

Author : Kai-Fu Lee
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0593238311
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AI 2041 written by Kai-Fu Lee and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.

Author : Thomas Morrison
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595331572
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year 2040 written by Thomas Morrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2040 A.D. America has gone the way of the Roman Empire. A new kind of democracy, the golfocracy, governs the former Americans. A new culture flowers along with new words-PuraThought, footballers, sexballers. Our hero, Charles Cue, a young American correspondent back in 2005, survives the years to the changeover. He writes for the golfocracy's first chief of state, President Duffer. He supports many of the ideas of Duffer, a woman, but is troubled by her plan to kill some "terrorists" in Canada who seek to "bring back America." Cue learns that the leader of the terrorists is his missing son. The author of this book feels only disgust for the sexballers and their motto Amour Is a Sport. Yet he can't help but wonder if the picture of himself (below) shows a certain developing hypocrisy early on.

Author : Claire Boyle
Publisher : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN 13 : 9781944211707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McSweeney's Issue 58 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) written by Claire Boyle and published by McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue is wholly focused on climate change with original speculative fiction from twelve noted contributors in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Global in scope, each story is focused on one part of the dire warnings issued by the 2018 Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change. Featuring Tommy Orange, Elif Shafak, Luis Alberto Urrea, Asja Bakic, Rachel Heng, and more.

Author : Bruce Piasecki
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098374181
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2040: a Fable written by Bruce Piasecki and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Bruce Piasecki's actual neighborhood outside of this historic revolutionary town Saratoga Springs, New York, this Fable begins with the discovery that one of his family's neighbors are conspiratorialist, people of profound passion and misinformation. During a lovely dinner despite three years of The Virus, they dine together, and are intrigued by the neighbors Parrot, military equipment, and literary excellence. Suddenly, the neighbors leave for Maine; and the protagonist George develops his lifelong friends Winston and Abe, as they weather many insults from storms and other harms. Winston is a tax attorney; and Abe is a daily journalist, who had met George during their elite training in college. The seven book author Thaddeus Rutkowski does a fine introduction drawing the hilarious parallels between Bruce Piasecki's reflections on freedom and fate during their undergraduate years in the 1970s, and the lasting themes of this Fable. The endorsements for this Fable have arrived from Istanbul Turkey, Australia's northern regions, Ireland, Scotland and throughout the professions, from experts on white supremacy, social unrest, and philosophy. Much of the book is an exploration of the power of the works of Bob Dylan, Fellini, the Italian film legend, and a others like Chaucer and Milton, without being heavy or burdensome. In fact this book is about the need for freedom in a time of state surveillance. Structured in ten chapters, a Rabbi endorsing this book reflects on how sum of its lessons are fitting his religious and spiritual teachings; while others reading this book have commented on how much fun it is to read. One calls it a Kalie scope on family, love and friendship. Another reflects on how reading this book was a wild adventure. The best thing to take from creative writing like this Fable is a sense of freedom. In reflecting on the protagonists discovers both with and against his strong wife and daughter, and with his friends since college, the reader finds the writing informative, persuasive and full of delight. A homage to social justice, like the rest of Bruce Piasecki's work, some believe in their endorsements that this book will be even more worthy by 2040.

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316262331
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York 2140 written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear -- along with the lawyers, of course. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building's manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. Then there are two boys who don't live there, but have no other home -- and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all -- and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
ISBN 13 : 9781646794973
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Evan Innes
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553262049
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City in the Mist written by Evan Innes and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new settlement on the planet Omega faces a severe challenge from a mysterious alien city, hidden by a blanket of fog and protected by powerful, advanced weapons

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671875978
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chaos Gate written by Josepha Sherman and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a Necromancer like all his kind, the reformed Dark Elf Naitachal is now a Bard. But shadows from his past linger. His erstwhile clan sees him as the worst of traitors--and they mean to take revenge using the Chaos Gate. Only Kevin, once Naitachal's apprentice but now a Count in his own castle, can save the Dark Elf from doom.

Author : Mike Bushman
Publisher : Altfuture Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780988336933
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secession 2041 written by Mike Bushman and published by Altfuture Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the United States be saved from civil war? In 2041, Senator Manny Jones takes charge of a four-state secession battle in America's Southwest to create the Republic of Alta Texas. As he does, the United Nations sends peacekeepers to protect the region's Hispanic majority from genocidal U.S. military retribution for voting to secede. Peacekeeping troops conceal a massive territory grab supported by anti-American terrorists, the world's most powerful drug cartel and nations intent on weakening the United States. U.S. President Marc Phillipi seeks to make amends after a lie he told to win reelection backfires, setting a 72-hour deadline to end a secession quickly turning deadly. Professor Paul Stark and Independent Congresswoman Jill Carlson hold on to each other as they search for solutions others can't see. Two teens maneuver to avoid being trapped in the middle. Just out of high school, the newfound fame of Juan Gonzalez as a leader of Mexican-Americans makes him a primary target for both sides. Camped on the new border with her family, 14-year-old Clarissa Coleman risks her life and endures lost innocence trying to protect America. In Melting Point 2040, America's melting pot reached its boiling point. In Secession 2041, division darkens America's soil with the blood of civil war. Everyday Americans pay with their lives as politically motivated divisions reach an end game. The future builds from a history we are creating today.