Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?
The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from the bicycle that relied for its momentum on the rider waggling his head back and forth continually to the Improved Pneumatic Advertising Hat - a bowler that hurled a lit-up billboard into the air at the touch of a button - or the suitcase that turned into a small boat for the nervous ferry passenger.
El título del libro, delimita muy bien el sentido de la presente obra y de sus distintas contribuciones: presentar a los amables lectores la manera sui generis y fecunda como se complementan el trabajo científico y la reflexión filosófica en la producción intelectual y creativa de Albert Einstein.
An utterly absorbing account of humans, computers, and how much they differ Dame Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and MonstersWhat does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity?
The New York Times BestsellerThe urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.
*MAKE VISUAL DETOXING YOUR NEW YEAR S RESOLUTION FOR 2025*'This book is the new Ways of Seeing' Sharmadean Reid | 'Necessary reading for everyone who uses the internet' Emma Dabiri |'Brilliant insights .
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EXPLAINING HUMANS'A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and richer lives' Prof.
El cíborg, una de las figuras más recurrentes en las narraciones de la ciencia ficción, suele ser descrito como un oganismo que combina elementos maquínicos y biológicos, es un poderoso híbrido de carne, metales y deseos.
Víctor Manuel Toledo, un destacado referente académico en el pensamiento ambiental, presenta en su libro una antología de sus contribuciones teóricas y metodológicas.
In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America's energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin.
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning.
One of the world s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.
A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing everything from where we'll live, how we'll look, and who we'll be, by the popular science broadcaster and bestselling author Jay Ingram.
Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last weeks of the nineteenth century.
Como premisa fundamental para la consolidación de relaciones multisectoriales alrededor del proceso científico, las sociedades del conocimiento han asumido retos y alternativas frente a las dinámicas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, para involucrar a los distintos actores comprometidos en la construcción del desarrollo tecnológico.
*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new world from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.
'This is the bible for living a HEALTHIER life' DAVINA MCCALL bestselling author and host of Begin AgainAS SEEN ON 'SUNDAY BRUNCH' AND 'THIS MORNING'DISCOVER HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE YOU HEALTHIER FOR LONGERIn Hacking Humanity, technology journalist Lara Lewington takes us to the cutting edge of scientific research to demystify how new innovations are transforming our healthcare for the better.
El colectivo de blogueros de Tendencias 21 ha confeccionado este libro con la finalidad de compartir los conocimientos adquiridos en sus respectivas disciplinas.
En su "Introducción a la biopolítica", Thomas Lemke, además de un agudo análisis y lectura crítica de las principales tesis enfocadas a la definición de geopolítica y al establecimiento de una metodología de estudio en el área, presenta una reflexión sumamente propositiva, en la que defiende la necesidad de un enfoque interdisciplinario en el estudio de la materia.
