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The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
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Is the metaverse a brave new world? An immersive digital playground? The next generation of online gaming? Or just the latest manifestation of our human tendency to create other realities?
Herman Narula argues that it is all of these things. His vision of the metaverse, deeply rooted in history and psychology, looks to the Egyptians, whose conception of death inspired them to build the pyramids, to modern-day sports fans whose fantasy leagues are as competitive as the real thing, and finds that humanity has always sought to supplement our day-to-day lives with a rich diversity of alternative immersive experiences.
Rigorously researched, passionately argued, and written by a tech founder and creator of digital worlds, Virtual Society reveals why the metaverse offers a new universe of ideas that offers users unprecedented opportunities to create, explore and find meaning. It's an essential guide for anyone who wants to get beyond superficial headlines and understand the true shape of our virtual future.
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In 10 chapters, composed of 10 "commands", Rushkoff provides cyber enthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate the digital new universe. In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping listeners to recognize programming as the new literacy of the digital age - and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, but with some crazy ranting
- De Bjarne en 02-05-15
De: Douglas Rushkoff
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- De: Evgeny Morozov
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The about face shift in view I've been looking for
- De McKane en 03-18-15
De: Evgeny Morozov
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- De: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 223
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Hope It's Not All True
- De John en 05-01-16
De: Richard Susskind, y otros
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- De: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrado por: Steve Wojtas
- Duración: 27 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting ideas but lots of negativity
- De Dan B en 05-22-23
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How Soon Is Now
- From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
- De: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our world. How Soon Is Now presents a compelling manifesto for personal and planetary change. It proposes a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement. Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Relevant!!!!
- De Anonymous User en 12-11-23
De: Daniel Pinchbeck
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What's Your Moonshot?
- Future-Proof Yourself and Your Business in the Age of Exponential Disruption
- De: John Sanei
- Narrado por: John Sanei
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In What's Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive - rather than merely survive - in our exponentially changing times. With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behavior and the way we do business - not to mention, the way we live our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read to kick off 2022
- De Anonymous User en 01-08-22
De: John Sanei
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Results
- Think Less. Achieve More.
- De: Jamie Smart
- Narrado por: Jamie Smart
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, right? It can be difficult to clear your mind of a million different anxieties and focus in on the one thing you need to get done. The best-selling author of Clarity and The Little Book of Clarity goes one step further with Results by using his Clarity Coaching Model to help you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritize, and focus on achieving those important goals.
De: Jamie Smart
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Glimmer
- How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World
- De: Warren Berger
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives. What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, ten groundbreaking principles of design are shown in action-addressing business, social, and personal challenges and improving the way we think, work, and live.
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2 out of 5 stars
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not for those who know about design thinking...
- De Pierre en 09-06-10
De: Warren Berger
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The Last Safe Investment
- Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever
- De: Bryan Franklin, Michael Ellsberg
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin think you've been fed a lie: that if you save for decades and invest in 401(k)s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily over decades, allowing 20 to 30 years of secure, peaceful retirement. This might have been true at some point in the last century, but it is not true any longer. If you want to get ahead and enjoy a life of prosperity, the authors argue that you must invest in the most powerful source of wealth you'll ever know: your own earning power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Paradigm Shift For Me...
- De Brad Spencer en 07-01-16
De: Bryan Franklin, y otros
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
- Harnessing Our Digital Future
- De: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Both How AND Why for Techies
- De Dan Collins en 08-11-17
De: Erik Brynjolfsson, y otros
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Superminds
- The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
- De: Thomas W. Malone
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Many people today are so dazzled by the long-term potential for artificial intelligence that they overlook the much clearer and more immediate potential for a new form of "collective intelligence": the intelligence of groups of people and computers working together. In Superminds, Thomas Malone explains what we need to do to take advantage of this potential. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds will change the way you work - both with others and with computers - for the better.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Why did a Kenyan immigrant win the 2008 election"
- De RealTruth en 07-11-18
De: Thomas W. Malone
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Future Shock
- De: Alvin Toffler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships - all of them temporary. It illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Accurate
- De Peter Gracia en 03-31-19
De: Alvin Toffler
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- De: Kai-Fu Lee
- Narrado por: Mikael Naramore
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,688
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,686
In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelled to listen at 2x speed
- De LEE en 09-26-18
De: Kai-Fu Lee
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Becoming Facebook
- The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World
- De: Mike Hoefflinger
- Narrado por: Nicholas Techosky
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Facebook's founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than we might expect. Mike Hoefflinger was one of those Facebook insiders.
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3 out of 5 stars
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mainly a tribute to the success of FB
- De Anonymous User en 10-07-18
De: Mike Hoefflinger
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Why Information Grows
- The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- De: César Hidalgo
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De bpjammin en 01-07-17
De: César Hidalgo
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Whiplash
- How to Survive Our Faster Future
- De: Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
- Narrado por: James Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions - one in technology and the other in communications - joined, an explosive force was unleashed that changed the very nature of innovation. And with any change, we have seen many strategic blunders and extraordinary learning curves along the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just general advice on how to survive
- De A. Yoshida en 09-01-17
De: Joi Ito, y otros
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- De: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-05-21
De: Rob Reich, y otros