Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.

'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise -- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...

Examines how new innovations in education are changing the way people learn in the world today, the way business is affected as a result of it, and the way businesses themselves must change in order to stay productive and successful in the future.

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation-and the father of two digital natives-he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper's...

Argues that technology is changing the way we understand human society and discusses how the disciplines of politics, culture, public debate, morality, and humanism will be affected when responsibility for them is delegated to technology.

Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. It's a tall order-and a call that is only getting louder. In Can Business Save the Earth? Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji explain just how the private sector can help. Many believe that markets will inevitably demand sustainable practices and force them to emerge. But Lenox and Chatterji...

Argues that the American government, often perceived as a hindrance to technology, has in fact been a great innovator, responsible for such breakthroughs as GPS, the Internet, and search engine algorithms.

Who invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made ... cats? What if I told you there was ONE answer to all of these questions? That one answer? BLACK PEOPLE!Seriously.

"This program weighs the pros and cons of real-time profiling systems, closed circut cameras in public places, smart ID cards, thermal imaging polygraphs, and other anti-terror technologies"--Container.