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Author |
: Fred Hapgood |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 1994-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0201626101 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780201626100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Up The Infinite Corridor by : Fred Hapgood
Author |
: Adam McCaulley |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798861799874 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Infinite Corridor by : Adam McCaulley
It is graduation day and most people graduating are happy but Rob is anxious. Rob's parents are cutting him off and selling the house leaving him no safety net. After searching for months and getting no leads Rob is saved by a mysterious woman who appeared at his graduation. The woman recruits Rob into the mysterious I-Corp company. Rob thinks his business degree will finally be used and he will be doing what he wanted to with his degree. But Rob finds the job boring and wonders if this is what work is for most people. Until Rob's secretary shows him a mysterious infinite corridor that is broken. She then tells Rob that the corridor was broken and the real reason he was recruited was to help fix the corridor. Rob doesn't believe his secretary and finds the situation absurd. That unbelief ends up trapping Rob in the infinite corridor and into a bigger war between the master of the white corridors and the master of the nightmare black corridors. Now Rob is lost moving from door to door and world to world. Will Rob be the champion the master of the white doors needs him to be? How many worlds and people will he save along the way? Will Rob find his way home and out of the infinite corridors?
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Total Pages |
: 124 |
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: 1993-08 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
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: 124 |
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: 1993-08 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Author |
: Jean-Jacques Degroof |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262366991 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262366991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis From the Basement to the Dome by : Jean-Jacques Degroof
How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset has nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT. MIT is world-famous as a launching pad for entrepreneurs. MIT alumni have founded at least 30,000 active companies, employing an estimated 4.6 million people, with revenues of approximately $1.9 trillion. In the 2010s, twenty to thirty ventures were spun off each year to commercialize technologies developed in MIT labs (with intellectual property licensed by MIT to these companies); in the same decade, MIT graduates started an estimated 100 firms per year. How has MIT become such a hotbed of entrepreneurship? In From the Basement to the Dome, Jean-Jacques Degroof describes how MIT's problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset nurture entrepreneurship. Degroof explains that, at first, the culture of entrepreneurship sprang from such extracurricular activities as forums, clubs, and competitions. Eventually, the Institute formally supported these activities, offering courses in entrepreneurship. Degroof describes why entrepreneurship is so uniquely aligned with MIT's culture: a history of bottom-up decision-making, a tradition of academic excellence, a keen interest in problem-solving, a belief in experimentation, and a tolerance for failure on the way to success. Entrepreneurship is the logical outcome of MIT's motto, Mens et Manus (mind and hand) ), translating theories and scientific discoveries into products and businesses--many of which have the goal of solving some of the world's most pressing problems. Degroof maps MIT's current entrepreneurial ecosystem of students, faculty, and researchers; considers the effectiveness of teaching entrepreneurship; and outlines ways that the MIT story could inspire conversations in other institutions about promoting entrepreneurship.
Author |
: Damien Broderick |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2002-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 031287782X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312877828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spike by : Damien Broderick
Human life and the human condition are changing rapidly, and are about to change even faster and more radically. Dazzling scientific breakthroughs are changing how long we live, where we live, how we dress, how we communicate, how we work and what work we do, and even how we think and imagine. Scientist Vernor Vinge proposed that humanity is approaching what he called the Singularity, what Broderick has renamed the Spike: that moment in human history when heretofore unimaginable changes -- artificial intelligence, immortality, and nanotechnology, just to name a few -- occur with such rapidity and number that the human race will be transformed -- or destroyed. This book of wonders and dangers brings together all the fascinating possibilities. Don't miss Broderick's new Tor novel, Transcension, also published in February, in which one of the futures described in The Spike is the setting for a diverting entertainment. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: David Bodanis |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2006-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307335982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307335984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electric Universe by : David Bodanis
The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals. In Electric Universe, the great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery.
Author |
: Pepper White |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2001-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262250365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262250368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea Factory by : Pepper White
This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's great technological universities. This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's great technological universities. Pepper White entered MIT in 1981 and received his master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1984. His account of his experiences, written in diary form, offers insight into graduate school life in general—including the loneliness and even desperation that can result from the intense pressure to succeed—and the purposes of engineering education in particular. The first professor White met at MIT told him that it did not really matter what he learned there, but that MIT would teach him how to think. This, then, is the story of how one student learned how to think. There have of course been changes at MIT since 1984, but its essence is still the same. White has added a new preface and concluding chapter to this edition to bring the story of his continuing education up to date.
Author |
: Bryan Bannon |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2016-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783485222 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783485221 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature and Experience by : Bryan Bannon
What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for ‘nature’? Do inanimate beings possess agency, and if so what is its structure? What role does metaphor play in our understanding of and relation to the environment? How does nature contribute to human well-being? By bringing the concerns and methods of phenomenology to bear on questions such as these, this book seeks to redefine how environmental issues are perceived and discussed and demonstrates the relevance of phenomenological inquiry to a broader audience in environmental studies. The book examines what phenomenology must be like to address the practical and philosophical issues that emerge within environmental philosophy, what practical contributions phenomenology might make to environmental studies and policy making more generally, and the nature of our human relationship with the environment and the best way for us to engage with it.
Author |
: George E. Marcus |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 1996-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226504425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226504421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Connected by : George E. Marcus
From the frontiers of cyberspace to Tibetans in exile, from computer bulletin boards to faxes, film, and videotape, the ongoing and often startling evolution of media continues to generate fresh new avenues for cultural criticism, political activism, and self-reflection. How is contemporary life affected by this stunning proliferation of information technologies? How does the Internet influence, and perhaps alter, users' experience of community and their sense of self? In what way are giant media conglomerates implicated in these far-reaching developments? Connected, the third volume in the groundbreaking and highly acclaimed Late Editions series, confronts these provocative questions through unique experiments with the interview format. It explores both the new pathways being forged through media and the predicaments of those struggling to find their way in the twilight of the twentieth century.