Human Culture

¿Sabías que todos los humanos tenemos un superpoder? Desde la sabana de África hasta los casquetes polares de Groenlandia, los humanos dominamos el planeta Tierra. Pero, ¿cómo lo hemos logrado? Los leones son más fuertes que nosotros, los delfines nadan mejor, ¡y no tenemos alas! A través de este apasionante viaje de millones de años, descubrirás cuál es este superpoder que nos hace imparables.

¿Sabías que todos los humanos tenemos un superpoder? Desde la sabana de África hasta los casquetes polares de Groenlandia, los humanos dominamos el planeta Tierra. Pero, ¿cómo lo hemos logrado? Los leones son más fuertes que nosotros, los delfines nadan mejor, ¡y no tenemos alas! A través de este apasionante viaje de millones de años, descubrirás cuál es este superpoder que nos hace imparables.

British business journalist and management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how firms can build meaningful and authentic connections with their employees, encouraging productivity, improving talent retention, and creating an enduring competitive advantage. You'll find out why the latest peer-reviewed research lends support to the notion that it is the nature of interpersonal environments—and not compensation—that many employees consider to be the most impactful when they're deciding whether to exit a job.

Margot Rot nos invita a reflexionar sobre la relación que hay entre las experiencias emocionales a través de las pantallas y la creación de nuestras identidades. ¿Qué son nuestras emociones sino la expresión múltiple de aquello que deseamos, o de aquello que no deseamos? ¿Qué es el deseo sino el ímpetu a través del cual se erige una identidad? La virtualidad ha modificado nuestro modo de percibir el tiempo y el espacio y, por ende, nuestro modo de percibir la realidad.

Zooey lleva los modelos humanista y posthumanista casi hasta el ridículo y la parodia para pensar la sociedad que estamos viviendo y construyendo, la política que nos gobierna y la que ideamos para el futuro. El resultado es un texto provocador y lleno de humor, tremendamente estimulante, en el que explora los temas que lo obsesionan: la relación entre la tecnología y la vida afectiva, social y política.

Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of - for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation - that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data.

AIs are everywhere, and they're changing everything. AI Explained: Facts, Fiction, and Future from best-selling author Nigel Poulton is your fast-track easy-to-understand guide to the exciting new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

From a VICE magazine columnist, "a deeply entertaining - if occasionally horrifying" (Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as nuclear war, a global internet collapse, antibiotics shortages, and even immortality.

Gobiernos y cientos de empresas nos espían: a ti y a todos tus conocidos. Quieren predecir nuestro comportamiento e influir en él. Tienen demasiado poder. Su poder proviene de nosotros, de ti, de tus datos. Recuperar la privacidad es la única manera de que podamos asumir de nuevo el mando de nuestras vidas y de nuestras sociedades. Carissa Véliz explica cómo nuestros datos personales están cediendo demasiado poder a las grandes empresas tecnológicas y a los gobiernos, por qué esto es importante y qué podemos hacer al respecto.

Darius m. Riddick presents his 7th literary work titled 'On Victory.' In On Victory, Darius emphasizes that victory is not just the result of hard work, it is the product of courage and perseverance. On Victory book takes a philosophical look at victory, exploring how it can be achieved through building character, culture and community. By understanding how these three fundamental pillars form the foundation for success, listeners will gain invaluable insights into the power of self-determination and achievement.

If you want to change your life during the coming metaverse bull run, then keep reading. When Facebook changed its name to Meta, everybody and their dog started talking about the metaverse and how it will be the next big thing. But how many people know what they are talking about? That is why we wrote this audiobook to help you become a profitable investor in the metaverse; cryptocurrency, NFTs, virtual lands, and blockchain gaming will be the assets of the future, and you have to master them all if you want to succeed.

This is an audiobook about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right and why they might be wrong.

Stiamo attraversando un periodo storico che è contraddistinto da una grande quantità di cambiamenti che avvengono in tempi molto brevi, due bambini su tre fra quelli che ora iniziano la scuola primaria, faranno in futuro un lavoro che oggi non esiste. La marcia dell’intelligenza artificiale sta avvenendo con un’accelerazione impetuosa. Che fine farà il lavoro degli esseri umani? Lasceremo tutto ai robot? Il processo tecnologico dà le vertigini, in un Pianeta sempre più sterile e sovrappopolato. INDUSTRY 4.0, la quarta rivoluzione industriale, il cambio dei paradigmi.

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our 'junk code' in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI.

Restart: Designing a Healthy Post Pandemic Life addresses how to work through the stress of the past year, tend to our physical and mental health, and re-align our relationship with technology. Emphasis is placed on habits created during quarantine that may have an impact on mental and physical health. Tools for resolving stress, anxiety, and depression resulting from sheltering in place will be highlighted. Practical tips and tools help listeners walk through the development of norms that will help them live healthier embodied lives.

What if a simple understanding of how the mind works was all you needed to build a business that inspired innovation, productivity, loyalty, and the ability to continually solve complex business problems? What if you never needed to study "proven strategies" or buy into someone else's success story? Humans Working presents a deep yet straightforward understanding of the most important asset in business - the human mind - and illustrates implications for you as a business leader, contributor, parent, partner, and beyond.

There is a generational transformation in the workforce. But there is good news. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve work processes, thus improving work experience and creating an environment that retains skilled workers.

You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional physical space. But as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection.

The Art of Managing Humans replaces work relations with working relationships, improving leadership through open communication, promoting welfare, worker involvement, and transparency. It is aimed at any manager, executive, and HR person who wants to identify the crucial balance between management and employees and the practical differences it bridges between mediocre companies and successful organizations.

In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences.