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Free Download Predicted Humans: Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking (Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect) By Simona Chiodo
2024 | 140 Pages | ISBN: 1032656913 | EPUB | 1 MB
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing one’s future may not be in the subject’s best interests and might even lead to disaster. If predicting our future as individuals can be harmful as well as beneficial, why are we so willing to engage in so much prediction, from cradle to grave?This book offers a philosophical answer, reflecting on seminal texts in Western culture to argue that predicting our future renders much of our existence the automated effect of various causes, which, in turn, helps to alleviate the existential burden of autonomously making sense of our lives in a more competitive, demanding, accelerated society. An exploration of our tendency in a technological era to engineer and so rid ourselves of that which has hitherto been our primary reason for being – making life plans for a successful future, while faced with epistemological and ethical uncertainties – Predicted Humans will appeal to scholars of philosophy and social theory with interests in questions of moral responsibility and meaning in an increasingly technological world.

Free Download Filipe Duarte Santos, "Humans on Earth: From Origins to Possible Futures"
English | 2011 | pages: 428 | ISBN: 3642053599, 364227126X | PDF | 3,5 mb
This is awide-ranging and persuasive book written by an undisputed expert. Beginning with a broad history of the Universe, Earth, Life, and Man, it considers the origins and rise of science and technology, before moving on to discuss the present state of the world and its/our possible futures. Humans on Earth then addresses the main challenges for social and economic development in the 21st century in the context of global change. It presents a detailed but non-technical analysis of questions relating to climate change, our dependence on fossil fuels, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, desertification, and air, water, soil, and ocean pollution, as well as problems related to overpopulation, poverty, social and economic inequalities, and conflict potential. The three main, but largely mutually exclusive, discourses on human development and the environment are described and discussed. The main emphasis is on the risks and uncertainties of the short-term future – the next 50 to 100 years – with regard to environmental degradation and the sustainability of our growth paradigm.

Free Download Lowell D. Thompson, "Branding Humans: Selling White Supremacy to America"
English | ASIN : B07C8LP436 | 2018 | 96 pages | EPUB | 355 KB
50 years after becoming one of the first AfrAmericans creating

Free Download Giselher Schalow, "Neural Network Learning in Humans "
English | ISBN: 1634824687 | 2015 | 329 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Based on human neurophysiology, it has been shown that the human brain and spinal cord can partly be repaired by movement-based learning. It seems that even to a very limited extent, new nerve cells can be built anew in the human central nervous system. Neural network learning starts with the knowledge of basic human neural network functions and their communication with the outside world. Neural network functions can only be explored thoroughly if it is partly known what impulse patterns run into and out of the networks. Even though the gained knowledge is rudimentary, it has immediate consequences for learning and the repair of the human central nervous system. This book discusses the theory of neural network learning. It provides research on neural network learning rates in healthy patients and patients with central nervous system injuries; neural network learning for coma patients; improving health in geriatric and cancer patients; and improving mental functions in patients with depression and anxiety.

Free Download Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo
English | October 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 022677158X | 640 pages | True EPUB | 8.99 MB
A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.

Free Download All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians by Phil Elwood
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1250321573 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.63 Mb
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Free Download Resourceful Humans: Mitarbeiterorientierte Fertigungsorganisation By Franka Köditz (auth.)
1999 | 358 Pages | ISBN: 3824469235 | PDF | 11 MB
Komplexer werdende Produktionssysteme, wachsende Anforderungen an die Mitarbeiter und gleichzeitig steigende Erwartungen der Mitarbeiter hinsichtlich Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsinhalten erfordern pragmatische Konzepte zur Gestaltung von Fertigungsorganisationen, die den veränderten Umfeldbedingungen gerecht werden. Franka Köditz entwickelt ein ganzheitliches Konzept der mitarbeiterorientierten Gestaltung von Fertigungssystemen und weist anhand von Fallstudien die Notwendigkeit, aber auch die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer interdisziplinären und ganzheitlichen Gestaltung mitarbeiterorientierter Organisationen nach.

Free Download Resourceful Humans: Mitarbeiterorientierte Fertigungsorganisation By Franka Köditz (auth.)
1999 | 358 Pages | ISBN: 3824469235 | PDF | 11 MB
Komplexer werdende Produktionssysteme, wachsende Anforderungen an die Mitarbeiter und gleichzeitig steigende Erwartungen der Mitarbeiter hinsichtlich Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsinhalten erfordern pragmatische Konzepte zur Gestaltung von Fertigungsorganisationen, die den veränderten Umfeldbedingungen gerecht werden. Franka Köditz entwickelt ein ganzheitliches Konzept der mitarbeiterorientierten Gestaltung von Fertigungssystemen und weist anhand von Fallstudien die Notwendigkeit, aber auch die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer interdisziplinären und ganzheitlichen Gestaltung mitarbeiterorientierter Organisationen nach.

Free Download Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1KV65PV | 2024 | 9 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Narrator: David Thorpe
Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity’s marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating, endlessly diverse history of human counting. Starting with the roots of counting in human brains, bodies and environments, Wardhaugh tours us around the world and through time while exploring the different flavours of counting that have developed over millennia. We meet the makers of bead necklaces in ancient South Africa, the inventors of writing in the world ‘ s first metropolis, and the ‘counter culture’ of classical Athens. We see counting used – and changed – by Indian scholars, Chinese peasants and Papuan shopkeepers; we meet the distinctive numerate agendas of Mayan kings, US governments and Korean vloggers. Weaving these stories together, Wardhaugh shows how cultures have shaped counting, and how counting has shaped culture, in a rich tapestry spanning thousands of years. This is the vast story of human attempts to find some order in an unruly world; or, perhaps, to impose on a reluctant world the order that humans find within themselves. It is a history as wide, deep and tangled as that of humanity itself.

Free Download All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLZNTPP | 2024 | 6 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Phil Elwood
Narrator: Holter Graham
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media-from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain. After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that’s made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he’s been up to for the past twenty years-and it isn’t pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer’s row of questionable clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar. In All the Worst Humans, Elwood unveils how the PR business works, and how the truth gets made, spun, and sold to the public-not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career. This is a piercing look into the corridors of money, power, politics, and control, all told in Elwood’s disarmingly funny and entertaining voice.