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How often do you negotiate with yourself but stay up well past bedtime, staring at the glowing screen? Digital overload continues to impact our quality of life. In fact, complaints of heightened stress, disconnection from one's surroundings, and fractured relationships are alarming in present times. These circumstances call for an intervention to reclaim the meaningfulness and joy of life. Living an Analog Life fosters a more conscious and deliberate approach to the digital tools we use. The book is all about taking the right steps to stay in touch with the grass instead of your phone screen.

Concluding the trilogy, this book synergizes the concepts from its predecessors, focusing on the amalgamation of art, cutting-edge technology, and human consciousness. It explores the transformative role of algorithms and sacred geometry in art, heralding a new era where these elements coalesce to form a groundbreaking artistic language.

One of the key aspects of smart parenting is striking a balance between technology and human connection. While AI can provide valuable educational resources and enhance learning experiences, it is essential to create boundaries and encourage face-to-face interactions. This audiobook delves into effective strategies to promote healthy technology usage, fostering open communication, and maintaining strong family bonds in the digital age.

In our modern world, our lives are driven by the latest media: public and private. Their continuous influence on every aspect of our lives leaves us with little to no chance of deciding what really matters. That is, the personal individual and or group decision-making in what matters most, the preservation and expressions of singularity and group identity. This book is an inspiration to adults who can make a difference in their attitude to make a difference among themselves and improve social areas and a better relationship among us, the great and larger human family.

Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagantes promesas y frustrantes reveses como la IA. La galardonada científica informática Melanie Mitchell revela su turbulenta historia, la reciente oleada de aparentes éxitos, las grandes esperanzas y temores que la rodean, y las cuestiones más urgentes hoy: ¿hasta qué punto son realmente inteligentes los programas de IA? ¿Qué pueden hacer realmente? ¿Hasta qué punto esperamos que se asemejen a los humanos y cuándo debemos preocuparnos de que nos superen?

Эта книга рассказывает о том, как человечество постепенно, шаг за шагом шло к созданию искусственного интеллекта и как он стал неотъемлемой частью нашей жизни. Как представляли себе искусственный разум ученые, философы и писатели разных эпох? Какие механизмы создавали наши предки, чтобы облегчить решение умственных задач, и в чем сегодня алгоритмы превосходят нас самих? Как сложатся наши отношения с этими новыми сущностями?

In a world where the digital landscape is rapidly advancing, the gap between the connected and the disconnected widens, leaving underserved communities at a stark disadvantage. Addressing this pressing issue, a groundbreaking book, "Tech Enabled Futures: Elevating Education in Underserved Areas," has been released, offering not only insights but also real-world strategies to bridge the digital divide.

Estamos frente a una nueva revolución industrial, un proceso siempre traumático en el corto plazo que en el medio y el largo acaba mereciendo la pena, generando mucho empleo y devolviendo la esperanza a quienes nacieron sin ella o la dejaron por el camino. Desafortunadamente, saberlo no minimiza el trauma social, por lo que "No te vas a morir" llega para apoyar a todos aquellos que apuesten por sumarse a este fenómeno, sea cual sea su edad, profesión o experiencia laboral, porque en estos momentos hay espacio para todos.

Können Sie sich vorstellen, im Alter von einem Roboter gepflegt zu werden? Oder würden Sie in einen Bus ohne Fahrer einsteigen? Die Digitalisierung ist DIE Herausforderung unserer Zeit. In alle Lebensbereiche dringt sie inzwischen vor: Bei den Themen Arbeit, Freizeit, Mobilität und selbst Gesundheit sind digitale Technologien nicht mehr wegzudenken. Antworten auf die Frage, wie der Einzelne und die Gesellschaft vom digitalen Wandel profitieren können, sind aktuell in der Unterzahl oder gar nicht vorhanden. Ängste beherrschen die Mediendebatte.

Mein Smartphone – meine Entscheidung. So gestalten und kontrollieren Sie Ihr digitales Leben. Für einen verantwortungsvollen und selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Medien. Lernen Sie, Quellen und Daten nach Güte und Glaubwürdigkeit beurteilen zu können. In diesem Ratgeber erhalten Sie Basiswissen zu Digitaler Souveränität in den Bereichen Technik und IT, in der Beurteilung von Daten und Quellen, sowie Informationen zur Datensicherheit und zum Datenschutz und über mögliche gesundheitliche Folgen der Mediennutzung, um damit Medienkompetenz zu steigern und die Möglichkeit, seine digitale Welt deutlich mehr selbst zu gestalten.

Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate. Tech giants like Google and Facebook are fueled by a continuous supply of user data and digital exhaust. Surveillance is not just a side effect of digital capitalism; it is the business model itself.

"Är det ett skämt att du och dina kollegor sitter och anmäler mina inlägg på instagram? FUCK THAT!". Hatet väller fram på sociala medier. Mottagarna? Yasmine Winberg och Julia Lundin, båda journalister på tidningen Resumé, som har anmält 14 influencers och 18 inlägg till Reklamombudsmannen för att få en tydligare klarhet i vad som gäller när det kommer till reklammärkning i sociala medier. Influencers är vår tids nya älsklingar, men också tidernas minst granskade makthavare.

Von der Sonnenuhr zum Fischer-Dübel: Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten. Von einem Cembalo aus dem Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts über den Benz-Patent-Motorwagen Nr. 1 und die Aufnahme Röntgens von der Hand seiner Frau bis zu einer Recyclingtasche und dem mRNA-Impfstoff gegen COVID-19 von BioNTech – jedes dieser 100 Objekte erzählt seine Geschichte auf mehreren Ebenen.

I am sure you’ve already heard that “Metaverse is the future,” or “You must invest in Metaverse,” because it’s going to be huge. Although most of that can be true, you have to know what you are doing if you want to be a part of what we call “The New World Of Metaverse.” And inside this audiobook, I will teach you just about everything you need to know about Metaverse and how you can make money with it.

Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising. Profit over Privacy uses the 1990s as its backdrop to show how the massive data-collection infrastructure that undergirds the internet today is the result of twenty-five years of technical and political economic engineering.

We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) - it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we can do, and make sure we are working to get there. Kate O’Neill, author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place, explores the ways we have already begun to solve human problems at scale, and makes the case for an approach that’s both hopeful and strategic as our best chance at a truly bright future.

El nuevo libro de dos de los especialistas más reconocidos de la Argentina sobre varios de los temas fundamentales del presente y nuestro futuro inmediato: el impacto de la economía de la atención en nuestras vidas, los nuevos conocimientos necesarios para la organización del trabajo remoto y presencial y una administración equilibrada del uso de la tecnología digital.

Restart: Designing a Healthy Post Pandemic Life addresses how to work through the stress of the past year, tend to our physical and mental health, and re-align our relationship with technology. Emphasis is placed on habits created during quarantine that may have an impact on mental and physical health. Tools for resolving stress, anxiety, and depression resulting from sheltering in place will be highlighted. Practical tips and tools help listeners walk through the development of norms that will help them live healthier embodied lives.

Early in the crisis, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some members are experts in the sciences and the humanities; others are environmental activists or regular people who see themselves as world citizens. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm - who embedded in the enterprise from the start - explores their efforts and shows how their approach provides a model for achieving systemic change.

スマホを“悪者”にするのは親の無知「プログラミング教室」だけが正解ではないITアレルギーの保護者必読!家庭でできる、デジタル社会で群を抜いて活躍する子の育て方