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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min

Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body - our senses, our intelligence, and our lifespans Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a biotech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement. He travels to the laboratories, conferences, and basements of today's foremost transhumanists, where he's presented with the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries of new technologies like mind uploading, artificial superintelligence, cryonics, and device implants. A contributor to Slate, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, O'Connell serves as a sharp and lively guide to the outer limits of technology in the 21st century. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising, singular meditation on what it means to be human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Garnon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004943/bk_rand_004943_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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30 Minuten Zukunftsmanagement

Hörwissen für Eilige: audissimo. Das 30-Minuten-Hörbuch. Sie können Ihre Position am Markt nur behaupten undverbessern, wenn Sie kommende Veränderungen und die darin liegenden Chancen zu einem frühen Zeitpunktwahrnehmen und nutzen. Hören Sie in 2 x 30 Minuten, wie Sie mehr von der Zukunft sehen. Über den Autor:Pero Micic ist international tätiger Experte für Zunkunftsmanagement und Vorstand der FutureManagementGroup AG. Micic zählt zu den 'wichtigsten Zukunftsanalysten Deutschlands' (Impulse). Er studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Future Studies in Deutschland, Großbrittanien und den USA und ist unter anderem Autor des Buches 'Der ZukunftsManager - Wie Sie Marktbranchen vor Ihren Mitbewerbern erkennen und nutzen'. Pero Micic berät international führende mittlere und große Unternehmen zu Fragen der unternehmerischen Zukunftsforschung und der praktischen Umsetzung von Zukunftswissen in das strategische Management. Er hat Lehraufträge an mehreren Universitäten und renommierten Managementakademien und ist Gründungsmitglied der Association of Professional Futurists.

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Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 302min

Epiphany Z is futurist Thomas Frey’s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.Frey’s unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him an edge on other futurists. Now he’s sharing that edge with you.What are tomorrow’s hottest industries?What huge industries of today are doomed to extinction?How will our lives be changed by advancements in robotics, in drone technology, in manufacturing and transportation?How can education cope with the explosive new world of enhanced information, hyperactive business environments, cultural shifts that would have been unimaginable as recently as yesterday?Who will be the masters of tomorrow’s universe, and who will be left behind?Above all, how can you not only protect yourself from the most disruptive aspects of the changes sweeping your way - how can you become one of the masters of those changes?Distilling decades of research, experience, and proven success in correctly identifying and accurately extrapolating today’s trends and innovations into tomorrow’s realities, Thomas Frey gives you an advance ticket to the most explosive period of change in all of human history. Those changes are taking place now. Thomas Frey tells us where they will be taking all of us tomorrow. Epiphany Z your roadmap to the future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130393/bk_acx0_130393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Digital Singularity: A Case for Humanity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min

Imagine a world where technology is all around us, but there's not a device in sight. It's automatically supporting us, our relationships, and our businesses. It's "smarter" than ever, anticipating our wants and needs, acting on our behalf based on our preferences. Our appliances know when they need repairs and schedule service.A digital copy of ourselves online keeps our identity and our entire financial portfolio secure from hackers while working to keep our business and personal connections strong and healthy. This is how we'll be living not too far from now when we enter digital singularity, the point at which human experience meets technological omnipresence.Despite the alarmist views espoused by some futurists, singularity will be a time of great opportunity for humanity. It will also be a time of great change for business, requiring new strategies, investments, and viewpoints for companies to not only remain relevant but to stay competitive.In Digital Singularity: A Case for Humanity, Kevin S. Parikh applies unique insights to the emerging technologies that are creating new business and social imperatives for those operating in our increasingly global economy. When all individuals have the same access, Transboundary communities supporting them, and a powerful virtual bullhorn giving them an equal voice to interact directly with the president and compete for work with corporate entities of any size, we'll experience a new way of working, communicating, and living, together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Garrett Goodison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149884/bk_acx0_149884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min

New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShort-listed for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income - a stipend given to every citizen - and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, childcare workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico - all are talking about UBI.In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBI’s intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor.Lowrey explores the potential of such a sweeping policy and the challenges the movement faces, among them contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and, most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. In the end, she shows how this arcane policy has the potential to solve some of our most intractable economic problems while offering a new vision of citizenship and a firmer foundation for our society in this age of turbulence and marvels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annie Lowrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006172/bk_rand_006172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus ("the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology"-Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade?What could living in a city look like in 2030?How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

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Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human Robot Futures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min

What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future?From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that stole my job' bots, best-selling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined. These scenarios are informed by interviews with actual engineers, scientists, artists, philosophers, futurists and others, who share with us their ideas, hopes and fears about robots. In the future, we will all remember when the robots truly arrived. Perhaps a robot surgeon saved your child's life, or maybe your inaugural robot moment will be more banal, when you realised with relief that the machines had taken over all the tasks you used to hate - taking out the rubbish, changing nappies, paying bills....Perhaps your recollection will be less benign, a memory of when a robot turned against you: the robot that threatened to seize your assets over a tax dispute. You might also remember when the robots began campaigning for equal rights with humans, and for an end to robot slavery, abuse and exploitation. Or when robots became so smart that they became our benign overlords, treating us like cute and not very bright pets. Or when the robots grew tired of us and decided to destroy us, turning our own robo-powered weapons of mass destruction against us. Further into the future we will remember when robots became organic, created in a lab from living tissue to look and be just like us, only better and more resilient. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/002315/bk_twuk_002315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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RAFT 2035: Roadmap to Abundance, Flourishing, and Transcendence by 2035 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min

The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short. In combination, these NBIC revolutions offer enormous new possibilities - enormous opportunities and enormous risks.Rapid technological change tends to provoke a turbulent social reaction. Old certainties fade. New winners arrive on the scene, flaunting their power and upturning previous networks of relationships. Within the general public, a sense of alienation and disruption mingles with a sense of profound possibility. Due to the increased scale, speed, and global nature of the NBIC revolutions, the disruptions caused by previous industrial revolutions - seismic though they were - are likely to be dwarfed in comparison to what lies ahead.Amidst these turbulent waves, RAFT 2035 offers a road map to abundance, flourishing, and transcendence. RAFT 2035 issues a bold call to action to encourage more people around the world to recognize the true scale of the opportunities ahead, to set aside distractions, and to build effective coalitions in pursuit of a set of 15 goals to be achieved by 2035.Written by David Wood, the chair of London Futurists, RAFT 2035 shows that futurism isn't just about describing futures that are likely or possible. It's also about highlighting futures that are highly desirable and seeking to change the arc of human history in the light of that insight.The RAFT goals range from significantly improved mental well-being, a radical new social contract, transformations in education and politics, a sustainable relationship with the environment, reductions in the threat of violence and crime - both locally and internationally - and a renewed focus on humanity's journey into new realms of both inner and outer space. For each goal, two interim targets for 2025 are identified as key steps toward a radically b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Bowles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220429/bk_acx0_220429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Reputation Economy: How to Optimize Your Digital Footprint in a World Where Your Reputation Is Your Most Valuable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min

Reputation is power. Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you. It determines whether your bank will lend you money to buy a house or car; whether your landlord will accept you as a tenant; which employers will hire you and how much they will pay you. It can even affect your marriage prospects. And in the coming Reputation Economy, it's getting more powerful than ever. Because today, thanks to rapid advances in digital technology, anyone access huge troves of information about you - your buying habits, your finances, your professional and personal networks, and even your physical whereabouts - at any time. In a world where technology allows companies and individuals alike to not only gather all this data but also aggregate it and analyze it with frightening speed, accuracy, and sophistication, our digital reputations are fast becoming our most valuable currency. Here, Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation.com and one of Silicon Valley's leading futurists will draw on the insider tools, insights, research, and secrets that has make Reputation.com the leading reputation management firm, to show how to capitalize on the trends the Reputation Economy will trigger to improve your professional, financial, and even social prospects. You will learn: What keywords to put in your resume, performance review, and LinkedIn profile to come up at the top of potential employers' search results. How to curate your on and offline activity in way that will reduce the premiums calculated by insurers, lenders, and investors. Tricks that will get you express or VIP treatment at banks, hotels, and other exclusive special offers. Ways to improve your review or rating on sharing or peer review sites like Yelp or Angie's List, or your standing - as buyer or seller - on sharing economy sites like AirBnB or Uber. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006708/bk_brll_006708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Future is Faster than You Think

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today's legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives-transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance-taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.

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