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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

November 10, 2010
Author:
Jane McGonigal
Publisher:
The Penguin Press HC (2011)

Amazon | More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend ten thousand hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to virtual worlds is that videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. In this groundbreaking exploration of the power and future of gaming, McGonigal reveals… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media

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Reamde: A Novel

October 4, 2011

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Author:
Neal Stephenson
Publisher:
William Morrow (2011)

Amazon | Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of his own online war game.

In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Entertainment/New Media | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Genes, Changing Our Future

November 22, 2013

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Author:
Gregory Stock
Publisher:
Mariner Books (2003)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | A groundbreaking work, Redesigning Humans tackles the controversial subject of engineering the human germline — the process of permanently altering the genetic code of an individual so that the changes are passed on to the offspring. Gregory Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive biology, has glimpsed the inevitable future of biomedical engineering.

Within decades, Stock asserts, technological advances will bring… read more

Topics: Biotech | Human Enhancement

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Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

August 17, 2012

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Author:
George M. Church, Ed Regis
Publisher:
Basic Books (2012)

Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures:
“A delightfully opinionated, visionary and controversial romp through synthetic biology, which is one of the most important technologies of our time.”

Eric Topol, Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, and author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine:
“Literally reinventing nature could provide solutions to intractable problems with the energy supply, global warming, and human health. In Regenesis, George… read more

Topics: Synthetic Biology

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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

January 12, 2012

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Author:
Michael Nielsen
Publisher:
Princeton University Press (2011)

Amazon | In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first… read more

Topics: Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Social Networking/Web

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Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You

July 6, 2011

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Author:
Deepak Chopra
Publisher:
Three Rivers Press (2010)

Amazon | Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits “the forgotten miracle” — the body’s infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to a dynamic, flowing process. “Your physical body is a fiction,” Chopra contends. Every cell is… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Human Enhancement

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Return To The Garden

October 1, 2012

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Author:
Norie Huddle
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (2012)

RETURN TO THE GARDEN is the first novel in a series called “The Eleanor Chronicles” that Norie Huddle is writing to introduce almost 45 years of her research and thinking about practical ways to transform human civilization so that we may survive and thrive.

Luis Alvarez, a young Ecuadorian man, meets an older North American woman named simply “Eleanor” on a long bus ride in Ecuador. They have a… read more

Topics: Survival/Defense

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Revolutions: Paving the Way for the Bioeconomy

March 20, 2014

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Author:
Randall E Mayes
Publisher:
Logos Press (2012)

Futurists have touted the 21st century as the century of biology primarily due to the potential of genomics. That potential is based on anticipated revolutions. These revolutions present themselves in many fashions. Revolutions: Paving the Way for the Bioeconomy is an in-depth look at these revolutions.

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Genomics researchers hope to launch personalized medicine and cure diseases by identifying drug targets and create novel therapies such as… read more

Topics: Biotech | Synthetic Biology

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Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life

June 23, 2011

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Author:
John B. Arden, Ph.D.
Publisher:
Wiley (2010)

Amazon | Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you would ever possess. Your brain was thought to be “hardwired” to function in predetermined ways. It turns out that’s not true. Your brain is not hardwired, it’s “softwired” by experience. This book shows… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social Networking/Web

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Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

June 18, 2013

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Author:
Ethan Zuckerman
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2013)

A rousing call to action for those who would be citizens of the world—online and off.

We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. We’ll understand more, we think. We’ll know more. We’ll engage… read more

Topics: Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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RFID Toys: Cool Projects for Home, Office and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)

December 23, 2013

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Author:
Amal Graafstra
Publisher:
Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2006)

Radio frequency identification now belongs to the masses, and it lets you control all sorts of things. Like access to your front door. Or valuables in an RFID-enabled safe. You can corral your stuff within an RFID-monitored perimeter, or build a shelf that tells you when you’re out of hot sauce. This book shows you how, with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, photos, and a list of the tools and tech-… read more

Topics: Electronics

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Rhythms of the Brain

August 3, 2010

Rhythms of the Brain

Author:
Gyorgy Buzsaki
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA (2006)

Amazon | Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the co-evolution of structure and function in the mammalian brain,… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces

April 1, 2013
Author:
Radley Balko
Publisher:
PublicAffairs (2013)

The American approach to law enforcement was forged by the experience of revolution. Emerging as they did from the shadow of British rule, the country’s founders would likely have viewed police, as they exist today, as a standing army, and therefore a threat to liberty. Even so, excessive force and disregard for the Bill of Rights have become epidemic in today’s world. According to civil liberties reporter Radley Balko,… read more

Topics: Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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Robopocalypse: A Novel

June 2, 2011

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Author:
Daniel H. Wilson
Publisher:
Doubleday (2011)

Amazon | They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Electronics | Internet/Cloud/Telecom | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Third Edition

February 3, 2011

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Author:
Gordon McComb
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics (2006)

This is the ultimate guide for building and experimenting with robots.  It is also the best selling hobby robotics books.  A whopping 700 pages it contains virtually everything there is to know about modern robotics including  how to convert a toy into a robot, speech systhesis and recognition, vision/robotic eyes, collision detection and avoidance  and the computer programming required to tie everything together to make it work.… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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