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Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid
robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part
of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about
her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and
attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her
memory drive, and she’s learning impossible things about her
clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe that stops
all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that
everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others
to destroy her. File Under: Science Fiction [ Von
Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm |
Robot Nation ]
Approach the future as a conversation, not a declaration. How can
you be prepared for what's next when emerging trends constantly
threaten to turn your strategic plan on its head? The world of
business is experiencing a state of hyperchange influenced by
global movements, disruptive technologies, political uprisings and
new consumer expectations. If your world is turned upside down,
will you know how to pivot and thrive, or will you be roadkill in
the 'adapt or die' business race? Futuring is the art of
anticipating and testing the trade-offs of different futures by
making sense of key trends, signals and emerging patterns. How to
Future is the only book that will teach you how to become a
strategy wayfinder, allowing you to evaluate, plan and prepare for
better futures for you and your business. How to Future is a
guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and
practices that illuminate new strategic pathways. Renowned
futurists Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby teach you how to manage
the daily flood of information and signals, and discern emergent
patterns that have a direct impact on the direction of your
business. How to Future isn't about the "one future" you expect.
Instead, this book equips you with valuable tools and concepts,
builds a future-focused mindset and enables you to envision,
stress-test and prototype adaptable, informed and agile strategic
visioning. These tools will empower you, your team and your
organization to anticipate whatever futures emerge.
Approach the future as a conversation, not a declaration. How can
you be prepared for what's next when emerging trends constantly
threaten to turn your strategic plan on its head? The world of
business is experiencing a state of hyperchange influenced by
global movements, disruptive technologies, political uprisings and
new consumer expectations. If your world is turned upside down,
will you know how to pivot and thrive, or will you be roadkill in
the 'adapt or die' business race? Futuring is the art of
anticipating and testing the trade-offs of different futures by
making sense of key trends, signals and emerging patterns. How to
Future is the only book that will teach you how to become a
strategy wayfinder, allowing you to evaluate, plan and prepare for
better futures for you and your business. How to Future is a
guidebook to futuring and arms you with tools, strategies and
practices that illuminate new strategic pathways. Renowned
futurists Scott Smith and Madeline Ashby teach you how to manage
the daily flood of information and signals, and discern emergent
patterns that have a direct impact on the direction of your
business. How to Future isn't about the "one future" you expect.
Instead, this book equips you with valuable tools and concepts,
builds a future-focused mindset and enables you to envision,
stress-test and prototype adaptable, informed and agile strategic
visioning. These tools will empower you, your team and your
organization to anticipate whatever futures emerge.
In the third and final installment of the Machine Dynasty, the
rapture for which the self-replicating humanoid vN were engineered
finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from
harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise
-- and the peril -- of free will. Her consciousness unleashed
across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia
stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing
humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her
grand-daughter Amy comes to its epic conclusion in the war for the
very systems that keep the planet running. Can Amy get her family
to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape
and freedom?
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