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Radically Human - How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future (Hardcover): Paul Daugherty, H. James... Radically Human - How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future (Hardcover)
Paul Daugherty, H. James Wilson
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy. In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine collaboration to transform their processes and their bottom lines. Now, as new AI powered technologies like the metaverse, natural language processing, and digital twins begin to rapidly impact both life and work, those companies and other pioneers across industries are tipping the balance even more strikingly toward the human side with technology-led strategy that is reshaping the very nature of innovation. In Radically Human, Daugherty and Wilson show this profound shift, fast-forwarded by the pandemic, toward more human-and more humane-technology. Artificial intelligence is becoming less artificial and more intelligent. Instead of data-hungry approaches to AI, innovators are pursuing data-efficient approaches that enable machines to learn as humans do. Instead of replacing workers with machines, they're unleashing human expertise to create human-centered AI. In place of lumbering legacy IT systems, they're building cloud-first IT architectures able to continuously adapt to a world of billions of connected devices. And they're pursuing strategies that will take their place alongside classic, winning business formulas like disruptive innovation. These against-the-grain approaches to the basic building blocks of business-Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy (IDEAS)-are transforming competition. Industrial giants and startups alike are drawing on this radically human IDEAS framework to create new business models, optimize post-pandemic approaches to work and talent, rebuild trust with their stakeholders, and show the way toward a sustainable future. With compelling insights and fresh examples from a variety of industries, Radically Human will forever change the way you think about, practice, and win with innovation.

The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover): Maurizio Tinnirello The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
Maurizio Tinnirello
R3,854 Discovery Miles 38 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Technologies such as artificial intelligence have led to significant advances in science and medicine, but have also facilitated new forms of repression, policing and surveillance. AI policy has become without doubt a significant issue of global politics. The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence tackles some of the issues linked to AI development and use, contributing to a better understanding of the global politics of AI. This is an area where enormous work still needs to be done, and the contributors to this volume provide significant input into this field of study, to policy makers, academics, and society at large. Each of the chapters in this volume works as freestanding contribution, and provides an accessible account of a particular issue linked to AI from a political perspective. Contributors to the volume come from many different areas of expertise, and of the world, and range from emergent to established authors.

The Exponential Age (Hardcover): Azeem Azhar The Exponential Age (Hardcover)
Azeem Azhar
R798 R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Save R127 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

*2021 Financial Times Best Book of the Year* A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data--and our ability to deal with its effects We are living in the first exponential age. High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all points to a world that is getting faster at a dizzying pace. Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the Exponential View podcast, offers a revelatory new model for understanding how technology is evolving so fast, and why it fundamentally alters the world. He roots his analysis in the idea of an "exponential gap" in which technological developments rapidly outpace our society's ability to catch up. Azhar shows that this divide explains many problems of our time--from political polarization to ballooning inequality to unchecked corporate power. With stunning clarity of vision, he delves into how the exponential gap is a near-inevitable consequence of the rise of AI, automation, and other exponential technologies, like renewable energy, 3D printing, and synthetic biology, which loom over the horizon. And he offers a set of policy solutions that can prevent the growing exponential gap from fragmenting, weakening, or even destroying our societies. The result is a wholly new way to think about technology, one that will transform our understanding of the economy, politics, and the future.

Artificial Intelligence Applications in a Pandemic - COVID-19 (Hardcover): Salahddine Krit, Vrijendra Singh, Mohamed Elhoseny,... Artificial Intelligence Applications in a Pandemic - COVID-19 (Hardcover)
Salahddine Krit, Vrijendra Singh, Mohamed Elhoseny, Yashbir Singh
R2,294 Discovery Miles 22 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Directs the attention to the smart digital healthcare system in this COVID-19 pandemic. Simulates novel investigations and how they will be beneficial in understanding the pandemic. Presents the latest ideas developed for data scientists, doctors, engineers, and economists. Analyses the various issues related to computing, AI apps, big data analytic techniques, and predictive scientific skill gaps. Explains some interesting and diverse types of challenges and data-driven healthcare applications.

I, Warbot - The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict (Paperback): Kenneth Payne I, Warbot - The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict (Paperback)
Kenneth Payne
R390 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R85 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An Economist Best Book of 2021 Artificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent military systems are already reshaping conflict-from the chaos of battle, with pilotless drones and robot tanks, to the headquarters far from the action, where generals and politicians use technology to weigh up what to do. AI changes how we fight, and even how likely it is that we will. Warbots will be faster, more agile and more deadly than today's crewed weapons. New tactics are already emerging, but much deeper thinking is needed. When will an intelligent machine escalate, and how might you deter it? Can robots predict the future? And what happens to the 'art of war' as machines become creative? An international campaign against 'killer robots' hopes to ban AI from conflict. But the genie is out-autonomous weapons are too useful for states to outlaw. Still, crafting sensible rules for our warbots is possible. This fascinating book shows how it might be done.

Human-Machine Interface Technology Advancements and Applications (Hardcover): Ravichander Janapati, Usha Desai, Shrirang Ambaji... Human-Machine Interface Technology Advancements and Applications (Hardcover)
Ravichander Janapati, Usha Desai, Shrirang Ambaji Kulkarni, Shubham Tayal
R4,552 Discovery Miles 45 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Discusses advancements in the field of Human Machine Interface. Provides practical knowledge in biomedical signal processing, AI and ML using MATLAB. Introduces biomedical signals for HMI applications. Discusses Augmented Reality/Virtual reality based HMI. Explores advancements in nanotechnology, user interface design and interactive systems.

Applied Soft Computing - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover): Samarjeet Borah, Ranjit Panigrahi Applied Soft Computing - Techniques and Applications (Hardcover)
Samarjeet Borah, Ranjit Panigrahi
R3,871 Discovery Miles 38 710 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

It explores a variety of modern applications in soft computing, including bioinspired computing, reconfigurable computing, fuzzy logic, fusion-based learning, intelligent healthcare systems, bioinformatics, data mining, functional approximation, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, hybrid models, machine learning, meta heuristics, neuro fuzzy system, and optimization principles. The book acts as a reference book for AI developers, researchers, and academicians as it addresses the recent technological developments in the field of soft computing.

Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us? (Paperback): Stephen Hawking Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us? (Paperback)
Stephen Hawking
R140 R112 Discovery Miles 1 120 Save R28 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying' Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us? considers the threat of artificial super-intelligence - as well as the likelihood of intelligent life beyond our planet. 'Modest, profound and sometimes very funny' Sunday Times Brief Answers, Big Questions: this stunning paperback series offers electrifying essays from one of the greatest minds of our age, taken from the original text of the No. 1 bestselling Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

The Singularity Is Near - When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback): Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Is Near - When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
Ray Kurzweil
R604 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R129 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York Times A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.' For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations. PRAISE FOR THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR 'Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.' Los Angeles Times 'Elaborate, smart and persuasive.' The Boston Globe 'A pleasure to read.' The Wall Street Journal An Amazon Best Science Book of 2005 A CBS News Best Autumn Books of 2005 A St Louis Post-Dispatch Best Nonfiction Book of 2005

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and IoT for Smart Healthcare (Hardcover): Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Anuj Kumar, Sangeeta Pant,... Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and IoT for Smart Healthcare (Hardcover)
Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Anuj Kumar, Sangeeta Pant, Mangey Ram
R2,823 Discovery Miles 28 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The concepts of telemedicine and e-healthcare have eased as well as improved the reachability of experienced doctors and medical staff to remote patients. A patient who is living in a remote village area can directly connect to specialist doctors across the globe though his/her mobile phone using telemedicine systems and e-healthcare services. In pandemic situations like COVID-19, these online platforms helped society to get medical treatment from their residence without any physical movement. Technology is transforming human lives by playing an important role in the planning, designing, and development of intelligent systems for better service. This book presents a cross-disciplinary perspective on the concept of machine learning, blockchain and IoT by congregating cutting-edge research and insights. It also identifies and discusses various advanced technologies such as internet of things (IoT), big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber security, cloud computing, sensors and so on that are vital to foster the development of smart healthcare and telemedicine systems by providing effective solutions to the medical challenges faced by humankind.

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Social Impact - Social Business Models and Impact Finance (Paperback): Wolfgang... Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Social Impact - Social Business Models and Impact Finance (Paperback)
Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* International approach, with examples and cases from the US, Europe and Africa * Each chapter contains objectives, case studies, discussion questions and further reading suggestions. * PPT slides and data sets available as digital supplements

Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought - Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice... Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought - Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice (Paperback)
Nancy Ettlinger
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs. The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production, recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance, despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies, requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism, which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However, enduring problems require critical reflection, continual revision of strategies, and active participation among diverse community citizens. This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences.

Decision Intelligence - Human-Machine Integration for Decision Making (Hardcover): Miriam O'Callaghan Decision Intelligence - Human-Machine Integration for Decision Making (Hardcover)
Miriam O'Callaghan
R2,625 Discovery Miles 26 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Revealing the flaws in human decision making, this book explores how AI can be used to optimise decisions for improved business outcomes and efficiency, as well as looking ahead into the significant contributions Decision Intelligence (DI) can make to society and the ethical challenges it may raise. Offering an impressive framework of Decision Intelligence (DI), from the theories and concepts used to design autonomous intelligent agents to the technologies that power DI systems and the ways in which companies use decision-making building blocks to build DI solutions that enable businesses to democratise AI, this book provides a systematic approach to AI intelligence and human involvement. Replete with case studies on DI application, as well as wider discussions on the social implications of the technology, this book appeals to both students of AI and data solutions and businesses considering DI adoption.

Artificial Intelligence Perspective for Smart Cities (Hardcover): Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu, Vahap Tecim Artificial Intelligence Perspective for Smart Cities (Hardcover)
Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu, Vahap Tecim
R2,990 Discovery Miles 29 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Understand the audit culture, challenges, and benefits of the CAE role in digitally transforming business environment in smart cities 2. Identify ways to advance the value of Internal Audit in digital era 3. Use and control the resources of the city efficiently, and to ensure that the system units work properly in an integrated way.

Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance (Hardcover): Ashwin Rao, Tikhon Jelvis Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance (Hardcover)
Ashwin Rao, Tikhon Jelvis
R2,361 Discovery Miles 23 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Features Focus on the foundational theory underpinning Reinforcement Learning Suitable as a primary text for courses in Reinforcement Learning, but also as supplementary reading for applied/financial mathematics, programming, and other related courses Suitable for a professional audience of quantitative analysts or industry specialists Blends theory/mathematics, programming/algorithms and real-world financial nuances while always striving to maintain simplicity and to build intuitive understanding.

AI in Healthcare - How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing IT Operations and Infrastructure Services (Paperback): R Shimonski AI in Healthcare - How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing IT Operations and Infrastructure Services (Paperback)
R Shimonski
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The best source for cutting-edge insights into AI in healthcare operations AI in Healthcare: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing IT Operations and Infrastructure Services collects, organizes and provides the latest, most up-to-date research on the emerging technology of artificial intelligence as it is applied to healthcare operations. Written by a world-leading technology executive specializing in healthcare IT, this book provides concrete examples and practical advice on how to deploy artificial intelligence solutions in your healthcare environment. AI in Healthcare reveals to readers how they can take advantage of connecting real-time event correlation and response automation to minimize IT disruptions in critical healthcare IT functions. This book provides in-depth coverage of all the most important and central topics in the healthcare applications of artificial intelligence, including: Healthcare IT AI Clinical Operations AI Operational Infrastructure Project Planning Metrics, Reporting, and Service Performance AIOps in Automation AIOps Cloud Operations Future of AI Written in an accessible and straightforward style, this book will be invaluable to IT managers, administrators, and engineers in healthcare settings, as well as anyone with an interest or stake in healthcare technology.

Blockchain for IoT (Hardcover): Debarka Mukhopadhyay, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Sudipta Roy, Balachandran Krishnan Blockchain for IoT (Hardcover)
Debarka Mukhopadhyay, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Sudipta Roy, Balachandran Krishnan
R3,270 Discovery Miles 32 700 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Blockchain for IoT provides the basic concepts of Blockchain technology and its applications to varied domains catering to socio-technical fields. It also introduces intelligent Blockchain platforms by way of infusing elements of computational intelligence into Blockchain technology. With the help of an interdisciplinary approach, it includes insights into real-life IoT applications to enable the readers to assimilate the concepts with ease. This book provides a balanced approach between theoretical understanding and practical applications. Features: A self-contained approach to integrating the principles of Blockchain with elements of computational intelligence A rich and novel foundation of Blockchain technology with reference to the internet of things conjoined with the tenets of artificial intelligence in yielding intelligent Blockchain platforms Elucidates essential background, concepts, definitions, and theories thereby putting forward a complete treatment on the subject Information presented in an accessible way for research students of computer science and information technology, as well as software professionals who can inherit the much-needed developmental ideas to boost up their computing knowledge on distributed platforms This book is aimed primarily at undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers studying Blockchain.

The Threshold - Leading in the Age of AI (Hardcover): Nick Chatrath The Threshold - Leading in the Age of AI (Hardcover)
Nick Chatrath
R786 R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Accomplished leadership consultant Nick Chatrath offers a revolutionary framework for how leaders in all kinds of organizations can adapt to the new age of technology--the Age of AI-- by leaning into the qualities and skills that make us uniquely human. For readers of Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Max Tegmark's Life 3.0, The Threshold is a bold new way to think about human, emotionally intelligent leadership right now as we stand at the threshold of AI superintelligence. We are living in a new age: the Age of AI. With developments emerging every day, Artificial Intelligence will soon surpass most human competencies, and as a result drastically transform technology's role in our day-to-day world. The solution for organizational leaders is not to become more like computers. In order for our organizations to survive as we stand at the threshold of a new era, we must tap into the qualities that make us uniquely human. In the face of increasingly intelligent technology, old models of leadership are becoming obsolete. In The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI, accomplished leadership consultant Nick Chatrath interweaves an analysis of antiquated leadership models--the ones that leave AI-Era organizations exposed and ineffective with colleagues frustrated, unmotivated, and burnt-out--with his newly developed strategies for more effective "threshold" leadership methods. Supported with anecdotes, research, and a practical toolkit, The Threshold demonstrates that adaptive, effective organizations can be built with human, emotional intelligence: cultivating stillness, nurturing independent thinking, finding rhythms of rest and performance, and raising leadership consciousness. With a basis in the ideas and practices that have shaped our organizations in the past, The Threshold illuminates how accessing advanced stages of human development can be both competitive and harmonious with AI's growing insinuation into our working world.

The Rise of Metacreativity - AI Aesthetics After Remix (Paperback): Eduardo Navas The Rise of Metacreativity - AI Aesthetics After Remix (Paperback)
Eduardo Navas
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book brings together history and theory in art and media to examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning in culture, and reflects on the implications of delegating parts of the creative process to AI. In order to understand the complexity of authorship and originality in relation to creativity in contemporary times, Navas combines historical and theoretical premises from different areas of research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to provide a rich historical and theoretical context that critically reflects on and questions the implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning as an integral part of creative production. As part of this, the book considers how much of postproduction and remix aesthetics in art and media preceded the current rise of metacreativity in relation to artificial intelligence and machine learning, and explores contemporary questions on aesthetics. The book also provides a thorough evaluation of the creative application of systematic approaches to art and media production, and how this in effect percolates across disciplines including art, design, communication, as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences. An essential read for students and scholars interested in understanding the increasing role of AI and machine learning in contemporary art and media, and their wider role in creative production across culture and society.

Swarm Intelligence - Trends and Applications (Paperback): Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos, Juliana Carneiro Gomes, Valter... Swarm Intelligence - Trends and Applications (Paperback)
Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos, Juliana Carneiro Gomes, Valter Augusto de Freitas Barbosa
R2,368 Discovery Miles 23 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides strong and accessible theoretical bases to swarm intelligence algorithms, from particle optimization to bioinspired and meta-heuristic algorithms Presents emerging meta-heuristic algorithms and applications Provides overviews on Python and R based computing libraries for swarm intelligence and meta-heuristic algorithms Presenting real-world applications, especially on Industry, Medicine and Biology.

Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts - From Psychology to Cinema and Literature (Hardcover): Yair Neuman, Marcel Danesi, Dan... Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts - From Psychology to Cinema and Literature (Hardcover)
Yair Neuman, Marcel Danesi, Dan Vilenchik
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Neuman, Danesi, and Vilenchik argue that these different forms of analysis are indeed complementary, demonstrating the ways in which AI-based perspectives echo similar theoretical and methodological currents in traditional approaches while also offering new directions for research. The volume showcases examples from a wide range of texts, including novels, television shows, and films to illustrate the ways in which the latest AI technologies can be used for "dialoguing" with textual characters and examining textual meaning coherence. Illuminating the potential of AI language models to both enhance and extend research on the interpretation of texts, this book will appeal to scholars interested in cognitive approaches to the humanities in such fields as literary studies, discourse analysis, media studies, film studies, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders based on Deep Learning Techniques (Hardcover): Jyotismita Chaki Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders based on Deep Learning Techniques (Hardcover)
Jyotismita Chaki
R2,740 Discovery Miles 27 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is based on deep learning approaches used for the diagnosis of neurological disorders, including basics of deep learning algorithms using diagrams, data tables, and practical examples, for diagnosis of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. It includes application of feed-forward neural networks, deep generative models, convolutional neural networks, graph convolutional networks, and recurrent neural networks in the field of diagnosis of neurological disorders. Along with this, data pre-processing including scaling, correction, trimming, normalization is also included. Offers a detailed description of the deep learning approaches used for the diagnosis of neurological disorders Demonstrates concepts of deep learning algorithms using diagrams, data tables, and examples for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders; neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric disorders. Helps build, train, and deploy different types of deep architectures for diagnosis Explores data pre-processing techniques involved in diagnosis Include real-time case studies and examples This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in biomedical imaging and machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence - Applications and Innovations (Hardcover): Rashmi Priyadarshini, R.M. Mehra, Amit Sehgal, Prabhu Jyot... Artificial Intelligence - Applications and Innovations (Hardcover)
Rashmi Priyadarshini, R.M. Mehra, Amit Sehgal, Prabhu Jyot Singh
R4,428 Discovery Miles 44 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Innovations is a book about the science of artificial intelligence (AI). AI is the study of the design of intelligent computational agents. This book provides a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, professionals, academicians and students dealing with the new challenges and advances in the areas of AI and innovations. This book also covers a wide range of applications of machine learning such as fire detection, structural health and pollution monitoring and control. Key Features Provides insight into prospective research and application areas related to industry and technology Discusses industry- based inputs on success stories of technology adoption Discusses technology applications from a research perspective in the field of AI Provides a hands- on approach and case studies for readers of the book to practice and assimilate learning This book is primarily aimed at graduates and post- graduates in computer science, information technology, civil engineering, electronics and electrical engineering and management.

Telepresence: Actual and Virtual - Promises and Perils of Converging New Realities (Hardcover): Thomas B. Sheridan Telepresence: Actual and Virtual - Promises and Perils of Converging New Realities (Hardcover)
Thomas B. Sheridan
R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores the history of telepresence from the 1948 developments of master-slave manipulation, through to current telepresence technology used in space, undersea, surgery and telemedicine, operations in nuclear and other hazardous environments, policing and surveillance, agriculture, construction, mining, warehousing, education, amusement, social media and other contexts Reviews the differing technologies for visual, haptic, tactile remote sensing at the remote site, and the corresponding means of the display to the human operator Reviews the sensing and control technology, its history, and likely future, and discusses the many research and policy issues Reviews psychological experiments in telepresence with relation to virtual and augmented reality Examines social and ethical concerns: ease of spying, mischief, and crime via remote control of an avatar

The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Paperback): Carl Benedikt Frey The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Paperback)
Carl Benedikt Frey
R534 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R118 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society's members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends broadly mirror those in our current age of automation. But, just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.

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