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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The eight-part docudrama, reveals the competitive forces behind history's most remarkable races for innovation. From Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates to the Wright Brothers vs. Glen Curtiss, explores the rivalries, delving into the fierce power struggles, deceit, fluke timing and raw ambition out of which innovation was born. Bold reenactments are woven together with expert interviews to shed new perspective on the backstories of innovation that have shaped...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rockets are becoming cheaper and more powerful than before thanks to new technologies. As companies make space more accessible and NASA returns to crewed spaceflight, a new era of space exploration seems to be on the horizon. But will this seeming rocket Renaissance become just more than hype? NOVA explores the latest rocket technologies and the growing role private citizens may have in space.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Utilities around the world are racing to install smart utility meters, which are emerging as anything but smart. This documentary uncovers shocking evidence of in-home privacy, increased utility bills, health risks such as cancer, environmental harm, fires, and unprecedented hacking vulnerability, while lighting the path toward solutions. With compelling insight from whistleblowers, researchers, government agents, lawyers, doctors, and environmentalists....
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is the definitive documentary on 'smart' meters and the eye-opening story behind the 'smart' grid. With 20% new content, this streamlined 83 minute film presents shocking facts and first-hand evidence of surveillance, corruption, skyrocketing bills, dangerous vulnerability, extortion, and even thousands of house fires and explosions.
8) Twinsters
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A remarkable true story of identity and journey into sisterhood. Raised on different continents, with no idea the other existed, and connected 25 years later through social media, Samantha and Anas̐ discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the perspective of space, this program traces mankind's journey from hunter-gatherer to dominant global species. With mind-bending data and CGI, the program shows how we have transformed our planet and produced a world of extraordinary complexity.
10) Pioneros (Trailblazer): el poder de los negocios para ser verdaderas plataformas de cambio positivo
Author
Publisher
Empresa Activa
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
11) In the age of AI
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
12) Cómo evitar un desastre climático: las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
En este libro tan necesario y riguroso, Bill Gates expone un plan amplio, funcional y, sobre todo, asequible, para reducir a cero las emisiones de los gases causantes del efecto invernadero y evitar a tiempo una catástrofe medioambiental.
Bill Gates ha dedicado una década a investigar el cambio climático. Con la orientación de expertos en física, química, biología, ingeniería, ciencias políticas y finanzas, se ha centrado
...Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation in the U.S. and across the world, mounting crises have raised the question: How has Facebook's historic success as a social network brought about real-world harm? Drawing on dozens of original interviews and rare footage, this major, two-night television event...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner's superb Sisters with Transistors showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, ¡liane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Gain unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, see the media industry transform at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango, and David Carr track print journalism's metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Includes interviews,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Video games evolved from simple consoles to cutting-edge home entertainment to some of the world's most popular apps. Find out more about the technological innovations, major players, and controversies that have made video-game history"--
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