book title: Sustainability
deck: A history.
author: by Jeremy Caradonna PhD
published in year: 2016
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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for “sustainable foods” that were produced from “sustainable agriculture.” Groups ranging from small… read more
book title: Innovating Minds
deck: Re-thinking creativity to inspire change.
author: by Wilma Koutstaal PhD + Jonathan Binks
published in year: 2015
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A ground-breaking, scientific approach to creative thinking.
From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists,… read more
book | Autonomy
The quest to build the self-driving car. And how it will re-shape our world.
November 15, 2018
book title: Troublemakers
deck: Silicon Valley’s coming of age.
author: by Leslie Berlin PhD
year: 2018
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The story of 7 high-tech pioneers.
The richly told narrative of the Silicon Valley generation that launched 5… read more
book | In the Company of Women
Inspiration + Advice: from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs.
August 13, 2018
author: Michael Martinez
year published: 2013
Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two.… read more
book | the Future of Humanity
From terra-forming Mars, inter-stellar travel, immortality, to our destiny beyond Earth.
August 5, 2018
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book title: the Future of Humanity
deck: From terra-forming Mars, inter-stellar travel, immortality, to our destiny beyond Earth
label: By the author of the no. 1 New York Times best seller the Future of the Mind.
author: by Michio Kaku PhD
year: 2018
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Moving human civilization… read more
The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
July 2, 2018
- author |
- Christopher J. Preston
- year published |
- 2018
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about… read more
- author |
- Roman R Poznanski, Jack Tuszynski, Todd E Feinberg
- year published |
- 2016
The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and “something it is like to be” remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an… read more
- author |
- Meredith Broussard
- year published |
- 2018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally―hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners―that we have… read more
- author |
- Amir Husain
- year published |
- 2017
The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence—and not only survive, but thrive.
Artificial “machine” intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at the drugstore, and are unable to live without our smartphones. The… read more