How the future has been imagined & made through the work of writers artists inventors & designers The future is like an unwritten book It is not something we see in a crystal ball or can only hope to predict like the weather In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made not predicted Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future as seen in the work of writers artists inventors & designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed & described the core components of the futures they envisioned Montfort's approach is not that of futurology or scenario planning; instead he reports on the work of making the future -- the thinkers who devoted themselves to writing pages in the unwritten book Douglas Engelbart Alan Kay & Ted Nelson didn't predict the future of computing for instance They were three of the people who made it Montfort focuses on how the development of technologies -- with an emphasis on digital technologies -- has been bound up with ideas about the future Readers learn about kitchens of the future & the vision behind them; literary utopias from Plato's Republic to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward & Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland; the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair; & what led up to Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web Montfort describes the notebook computer as a human-centered alterative to the idea of the computer as a room-sized giant brain; speculative practice in design & science fiction; & throughout the best ways to imagine & build the future ...

In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians born as the Soviet Union crumbled at what promised to be the dawn of democracy Each came of age with unprecedented expectations some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia each with newfound aspirations of their own
- as entrepreneurs activists thinkers & writers sexual & social beings Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship intimidation violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying & seemingly unstoppable mafia state The Future is History is a powerful & urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor
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Today we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions Rather there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending some fairly obvious like poverty mental illness & drug abuse & others less so such as neurocognitive problems Today we have the tools for effective criminal behavioral change but this cannot be an excuse for criminal offending In The Future of Crime & Punishment William R Kelly identifies the need to educate the public on how these tools can be used to most effectively & cost efficiently reduce crime recidivism victimization & cost The justice system of the future needs to be much more collaborative utilizing the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as psychology psychiatry addiction & neuroscience Judges & prosecutors are lawyers not clinicians & as we transition the justice system to a focus on behavioral change the decision making will need to reflect the input of clinical experts The path forward is one characterized largely by change from traditional criminal prosecution & punishment to venues that balance accountability compliance & risk management with behavioral change interventions that address the primary underlying causes for recidivism There are many moving parts to this effort & it is a complex proposition It requires substantial changes to law procedure decision making roles & responsibilities expertise & funding Moreover it requires a radical shift in how we think about crime & punishment Our thinking needs to reflect a perspective that crime is harmful but that much criminal behavior is changeable ...

Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a leading human rights scholar & activist The Future of Human Rights offers a broad & authoritative guide to the big questions in global human rights governance today 152 pages Brysk Alison ...

Intelligence is by definition a shadowy business Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed & discussed a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering & analysis what should be allowed? What boundaries if any should be drawn? & what changes & challenges lie ahead for intelligence activities & agencies? In this compelling book leading intelligence scholar Mark Lowenthal explores the future of intelligence There are he argues three broad areas information technology & intelligence collection; analysis; & governance that indicate the potential for rather dramatic change in the world of intelligence But whether these important vectors for change will improve how intelligence works or make it more difficult remains to be seen The only certainty is that intelligence will remain an essential feature of statecraft in our increasingly dangerous world Drawing on the author's forty years' experience in US intelligence The Future of Intelligence offers a broad & authoritative starting point for the ongoing debate about what intelligence could be & how it may function in the years ahead ...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions & describes the people & systems that will replace them In an Internet society according to Richard Susskind & Daniel Susskind we will neither need nor want doctors teachers accountants architects the clergy consultants lawyers & many others to work as they did in the 20th century The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems'
- from telepresence to artificial intelligence
- will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society The authors challenge the 'grand bargain'
- the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals They argue that our current professions are antiquated opaque & no longer affordable & that the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few In their place they propose six new models for producing & distributing expertise in society The book raises important practical & moral questions In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment who should own & control online expertise & what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than ten professions & illustrated by numerous examples from each this is the first book to assess & question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century


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From Jay Asher the bestselling author of THIRTEEN REASONS WHY
- now a Netflix TV show
- & Carolyn Mackey comes a story of friendship

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A new approach to ideas about war from 'one of Britain's foremost military thinkers' (Observer) In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day not on the basis of technical feasibility but because sinking civilian ships was not something that any civilised nation would do The reality of war often contradicts expectations less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension but more because of some human political or moral threshold that we had never imagined would be crossed As Lawrence Freedman shows ideas about the causes of war & strategies for its conduct have rich & varied histories which shape predictions about the future Freedman shows how looking at how the future of war was conceived about in the past (and why this was more often than not wrong) can put into perspective current thinking about future conflicts The Future of War
- which takes us from preparations for the world wars through the nuclear age & the civil wars which became the focus for debate after the end of the Cold War to present preoccupations with hybrid & cyber warfare
- is filled with fascinating insights from one of the most brilliant military & strategic historians of his generation

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Polarize Mountain Path Thought Pattern Motioned Lichaen Forest Soundbed Sol 7 Hurt Wild Weather Unclear Vape Voyeur Seq-9 Silent Around Them Exerting Force or Influence Symphony For Halia Imagined Friends Electric Pastrol Plausibility Yut Moik Beyond The Field Of Vision Leak Stereo 70 Pipe Dream Meanders Solace ...