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Jamie Merisotis, author of the award-winning 2016 book America Needs Talent, argues that people will coexist with smart machines by learning, earning, and serving others over their lifetimes. But Merisotis asserts large-scale change is necessary to develop and hone the knowledge, skills, and abilities that render us uniquely human. These qualities include compassion, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and interpersonal communication.

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters - presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, energy, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and financial responsibility, and offering a plan to get us "back in the future business".

With a nation seemingly more divided than ever, many worry that Americans risk losing ground on solving the complex, interrelated problems the country faces - including rising inequality, the specter of climate change, astronomical health care costs, and economic stagnation. The renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical approach to move America toward a new consensus: sustainable development.

Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices explores the hidden influences and mental shortcuts our minds use to process information and how that often leads to unhealthy food choices. Understanding these hidden influences can help us make better decisions. More importantly, we can learn to fear less, and enjoy more, the food we eat.

How Are You Going to Pay for That? is filled with engaging discussions and detailed strategies that policymakers and citizens alike can use to assail even the most entrenched lines of neoliberal logic and start to undo these long-held misconceptions. Equal parts economic theory, history, and political polemic, this is an essential roadmap for winning the key battles to come.

Tired of all the political rhetoric? Want a voting guide that truly does not care who you vote for, except that you think through your voting choices by examining your values and beliefs? This Vote Smart Quick Reference Guide is your answer. It provides a framework to think through an election grounded by your values and beliefs supported by goodness and an examination of foundationally historic documents in US history including the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address.

You always wanted to know how the blockchain works? You want to find out how tokenization will positively change our world in the future? Learn how smart contracts work, with simple examples on the Ethereum Blockchain. All these topics and much more will be covered in this audiobook. You'll find information on tokenization, blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, mining, impact on businesses, government and society, smart contracts, ICO, STO, and many more topics.

In 2012, journalist Hugo Meunier went undercover as a Walmart employee for three months in St. Leonard, Quebec, just north of Montreal. In great detail, Meunier charts the daily life of an impoverished Walmart worker, referring to his shifts at the box store giant as "somewhere between the army and Walt Disney". Each shift began with a daily chant before bowing to customer demands and the constant pressure to sell.

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as best-selling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead, modern cues are setting off ancient, instinctive responses that worked to keep us safe in the Stone Age but lead us astray today.

In the near future, wars will be fought not over land, but over data. Machines will quickly discover individualized treatments for diseases, and with the help of virtual reality, AI will inspect buildings that have not yet been built. With the rising interest in these technologies by both China and the US, who will emerge as the victor of this technological race? When AI Rules the World is an investigation and call to action into AI technologies for a nation that does not yet comprehend the full gravity of the AI revolution.

Das Smartphone hat das Leben von vier Milliarden Menschen auf dieser Erde in den letzten zehn Jahren massiv verändert. Viele sehen die positiven Seiten, wenige machen sich Gedanken um die negativen Auswirkungen für unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln, unsere Gesundheit und unsere Gesellschaft. Es wird höchste Zeit, dem Hype durch Fakten zu begegnen. In den letzten zehn Jahren hat das Smartphone die Welt mit enormer Geschwindigkeit erobert und den Alltag für seine vier Milliarden Nutzer verändert wie keine technische Neuerung zuvor.

For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work hard and conduct yourself responsibly in this country, you will be able to prosper and leave a better life for your children. But over the past decade, that idea has come into crisis. In this story-driven manifesto on the future of American work, author Jay Richards argues that such thinking is counterproductive - making us more fragile, more dependent, and less equipped to succeed in a rapidly changing economy.

Do you think your life will get better in the future? Geoff Smart had some doubts. He saw what you see - how broken government has become. He worried about his career, his family’s future, and our everyday quality of life. Then one day, Geoff received an unexpected message that changed how he saw the problem. Geoff was asked to help. His journey took him behind the scenes to work with other private sector leaders who had made the leap into government. What he discovered will surprise you.

Despite being the planet’s apex predator we are secretly fearful that terrible things will happen. Our anticipation of the 21st century was delicious, but our mood is desperate looking to the 22nd. Will our climate and democratic freedoms survive? Why do authoritarian populists prevail? What has gone wrong with modern life, and how can we fix these problems? With subtle humor, here is a lucid and engaging framework for understanding why we are the problem, and how economics can help us to solve it.

Business mogul, brash, politically-incorrect, and now president of the United States, Donald Trump seems to have it all. Love him or hate him, there's no denying he got this far because of his unique personality and unwilling, almost unreasonable, drive to succeed.