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| More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to... by Adam BeckerMany of today’s tech industry leaders advance wildly optimistic visions of a future in which people will live on Mars, become immortal, and exist in simulation. Interrogating these scenarios with real science, journalist Adam Becker runs through the multitude of reasons why they aren’t achievable, and why we wouldn’t want them to be. Try this next: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis. |
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| Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura DelanoLaura Delano shares her experiences as an over-prescribed psychiatric patient. After being diagnosed with several psychiatric “conditions” starting in her teens, Delano came to the stark realization in her late twenties that the combination of psychotropic drugs that she was taking was causing a cascade of interrelated symptoms. Unshrunk is an emotionally powerful cautionary tale, suitable for readers who enjoyed Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne. |
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The True Cost of Wool: A Vision for Revitalizing the Canadian Industry
by Anna Hunter
"The True Cost of Wool" investigates Canada's wool industry, revealing how a system that once processed 80% of Canadian wool domestically now exports 90%, and 95% of yarn used by Canadian crafters is imported. Through extensive research and firsthand experience as a shepherd and mill owner, author Anna Hunter explores how rebuilding regional wool processing in Canada could create more sustainable and transparent supply chains, benefiting farmers, workers, consumers, and the environment.
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Simply AI: Facts Made Fast
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
Explaining each individual aspect of AI more clearly than ever before, the book outlines the key building-blocks and technological milestones in its history, profiles its most important practical applications--both current and predicted--and explores the numerous ethical debates around AI, and its increasing influence on culture and society.
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Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language
by Adam Aleksic
Algospeak is an energetic, astonishing journey into language, the internet, and what this intersection means for all of us. From our use of emojis to sentence structure to the ways younger generations talk about sex and death (see unalive in English and desvivirse in Spanish), we are in a brand-new world, one shaped by algorithms and technology.
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