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Radical Technologies : The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield
Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and self-driving cars, even as we use augmented-reality applications to interact with things that aren't quite there. Now 3D printing offers us unprecedented fine-grained control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain promises to remake the way we record and exchange value. And all the while, fiendishly complex algorithmic systems are operating quietly, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics, and even beginning to etch away at what it means to be human.
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Machines of loving grace : the quest for common ground between humans and robots
by John Markoff
A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer travels across the country to evaluate the present state of the artificial intelligence and the intelligence-augmentation debate, delving into the science-fiction worlds that are fast becoming a reality and talks to the insiders who are shaping the future.
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The hacked world order : how nations fight, trade, maneuver, and manipulate in the digital age
by Adam Segal
"For more than three hundred years, the world wrestled with conflicts that arose between nation-states. Nation-states wielded military force, financial pressure, and diplomatic persuasion to create "world order." Even after the end of the Cold War, the elements comprising world order remained essentially unchanged. But 2012 marked a transformation in geopolitics and the tactics of both the established powers and smaller entities looking to challenge the international community. That year, the US government revealed its involvement in Operation "Olympic Games," a mission aimed at disrupting the Iranian nuclear program through cyberattacks; Russia and China conducted massive cyber-espionage operations; and the world split over the governance of the Internet. Cyberspace became a battlefield. Cyber conflict is hard to track, often delivered by proxies, and has outcomes that are hard to gauge. It demands that the rules of engagement be completely reworked and all the old niceties of diplomacy be recast. Many of the critical resources of statecraft are now in the hands of the private sector, giant technology companies in particular. In this new world order, cybersecurity expert Adam Segal reveals, power has been well and truly hacked.
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Minority reportA special unit of police have developed a successful way to catch criminals before they commit their crimes.
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In a world of ever-increasing automation and artificial intelligence, Mulder and Scully find themselves targets in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Matrix
When a computer hacker realizes the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by machines of artificial intelligence, he is pulled into a fight to save humans from destruction.
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Terminator
A cyborg is sent back from the future, where computers rule the world, to eliminate the woman who will be the mother of the man who leads a resistance movement.
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Fate of the furious
Dominic Toretto's crew must join forces with their old enemy, assassin Deckard Shaw, when Dom is seduced back into the world of crime by a beautiful cyberterrorist.
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