Plugged: How The Beam and Hyperconnectivity Changed the Way We Think

Plugged: How The Beam and Hyperconnectivity Changed the Way We Think
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Publisher : Johnny B. Truant
Total Pages : 173
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Synopsis Plugged: How The Beam and Hyperconnectivity Changed the Way We Think by : Johnny B. Truant

PLUGGED is a "future history" written by fictional author Sterling Gibson: a Malcolm-Gladwell-esque work of fiction written as if it were nonfiction, exploring the sci-fi world of The Beam. Are We Who We Were? Throughout the 21st Century, our world (at least for those of us inside the NAU) has become increasingly connected. So much so that we really are now thinking as a single fluid organism, changing not just how we live our daily lives, but who we are as a species. In Sterling Gibson's newest thoughtful exploration, one of the NAU's most renowned thinkers explores and illuminates how hyperconnectivity and The Beam have changed us forever.

The Beam: Season Five

The Beam: Season Five
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Publisher : Johnny B. Truant
Total Pages : 846
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Synopsis The Beam: Season Five by : Johnny B. Truant

The unthinkable has happened. The Beam is down. Chaos reigns. A data anomaly has shown up in the East, something strange in a place where it shouldn’t exist, and something is seeking out a handful of people spread across the globe. Can Gillian Rhea find answers at the abandoned research station at Nickel Basin? Noah West is desperate to regain power and get The Beam back online, but no one dreamed he’d ever go this far. Will he unleash his worst creation upon the remains of the NAU to bring it back under his control, no matter the damage? Is there anyone left that can stop him?

ON/OFF

ON/OFF
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Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9783728137999
ISBN-13 : 3728137995
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis ON/OFF by : Sarah Genner

Are you constantly online? Or are you offline sometimes? Are you offline if you are not interacting with your connected devices? Or if no data about you is being collected? Do you check Instagram and Twitter during dinner? Do you turn off your smartphone at night? Do you check work emails on vacation? Do you feel you have to disconnect regularly – to relax, to concentrate, or to protect your privacy? Or do you feel more relaxed when constantly connected because your loved ones, a work emergency, or the news are always at your fingertips? Why are some people – even within networked societies – still completely offline given the tremendous opportunities of the Internet? And what does it even mean to be online or offline in the age of hyper-connectivity? In ON/OFF, Sarah Genner assesses the risks and rewards of the anytime-anywhere Internet, focusing on digital divides, social relationships, physical and mental health, and data privacy. She discusses implications for a variety of decision-makers in the world of work, in education, in families, and in politics. The author deconstructs the online/offline dichotomy and suggests the ON/OFF scale as a new theoretical framework for researchers and practitioners.

Building Anti-Fragile Organisations

Building Anti-Fragile Organisations
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781317171065
ISBN-13 : 1317171063
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Building Anti-Fragile Organisations by : Tony Bendell

Every day human organisations fail. Building Anti-Fragile Organisations explores a powerful alternative framework for risk in the design and management of human systems. Anti-Fragility is a new way of thinking about mitigating risk that builds on earlier work on the characteristics of biological systems that, being more than just robust, actually improve their resilience through being stressed. Professor Bendell explains how applying this concept to the development and management of organisations, services and products, allows us to identify the characteristics that will not only mitigate against the realisation of hazards, but enable growth in protection, strength and anti-fragility over time. In this context, anti-fragility also encompasses flexibility, agility and the exploitation of opportunities. At the organisational level, anti-fragility (or its absence) is determined by the organisational strategy, structure and systems, its people, relationships and culture. The book focuses on establishing the Anti-Fragile concept of the firm, and explores its application in private and public sector organisations of all types. It identifies characteristics relevant to survival in a turbulent world, and how our approaches to risk and governance need to change in order to create and manage anti-fragile organisations. It provides practical insight into the concept of Anti-Fragility and its deployment within human organisations of all types, and give readers the opportunity to start to make sense to applying the concepts within their own worlds.

Plugged

Plugged
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ISBN-10 : 1964578248
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Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Plugged by : Johnny B. Truant

The Beam: Season Two

The Beam: Season Two
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Publisher : Johnny B. Truant
Total Pages : 672
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Synopsis The Beam: Season Two by : Johnny B. Truant

Power is in the mind. The mind is in the network. As the NAU’s "Shift" approaches, the Directorate and Enterprise parties are doing whatever they can both on-Beam and off- to win the citizen’s minds. The Beam itself, however, seems to be evolving. As more and more people become addicted to connectivity, a question arises: Does the Beam serve our minds ... or do our minds serve the Beam? Meanwhile, using politics as cover, an organization is pushing human enhancements further than they were ever meant to go — and maybe more than the struggling NAU with its hyperconnected minds can hope to survive. ★★★★★ "Another homerun for Platt and Truant. Usually second books in a series are the weak link -- that didn't happen in The Beam. Just like the first season I got sucked in to this book and told the kids to just feed themselves poptarts and leave mommy alone already so she could read. An amazing series!" -- Patricia Eimer ★★★★★ "I loved the first season, but this did such a great job of fleshing out the story line that I'm already champing at the bit for the next season." -- BruceIn Baghdad ★★★★★ "A real high-tech futuristic political thriller with a great storyline and a cliff-hanger ending that leaves you wanting for more. Can't wait to read season 3." -- beachbaby

An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780345805881
ISBN-13 : 0345805887
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis An Anthropologist on Mars by : Oliver Sacks

From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.

Society in the Digital Age

Society in the Digital Age
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781526486288
ISBN-13 : 1526486288
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Society in the Digital Age by : William Housley

In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology. Drawing on a range of aligned approaches, concepts and empirical studies, he explores how notions of self and presentation, action and agency, practical reason and interaction are of fundamental importance to our understanding of some of the emerging contours of digital society; inclusive of big data, social media, the social life of methods, algorithmic culture, ‘artificial intelligence’ and the pivot to voice. In doing so, Housley aims to demonstrate the enduring relevance of work associated with Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks in understanding everyday digital social life. The book provides a range of insights into how sociology and social science continues to draw upon interactionism and aligned traditions such as ethnomethodology in making sense of the Interaction Order 2.0 and beyond.

The Future of Business

The Future of Business
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Publisher : Fast Future Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 577
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ISBN-10 : 9780993295812
ISBN-13 : 0993295819
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of Business by : Rohit Talwar

The Future of Business explores how the commercial world is being transformed by the complex interplay between social, economic and political shifts, disruptive ideas, bold strategies and breakthroughs in science and technology. Over 60 contributors from 21 countries explore how the business landscape will be reshaped by factors as diverse as the modification of the human brain and body, 3D printing, alternative energy sources, the reinvention of government, new business models, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the potential emergence of the Star Trek economy.

How to Change the Way You Think

How to Change the Way You Think
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Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : 0988591316
ISBN-13 : 9780988591318
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Change the Way You Think by : Amy Sharp

A formula for positive thinking, enabling the reader to effect a change in his or her life for the better.The world that you create begins with your thoughts. This book is meant to help you transform the way you think about yourself, about others, and about the situations that you are facing in your life today.