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The future of business, work, and the economy in a digital world. In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, and win at Jeopardy!. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty, but in their wake median income has stagnated and the share of the population with jobs has fallen. MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy and chart a...
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In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements today: techno-futurists questing for immortality, far-right groups seeking to close borders, militant environmentalists...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of material relating to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in 1897 in Nashville, Tenn. to mark the ocassion of the 100th anniversary of statehood. Materials include guidebooks to both the city and the exhibition, essays, invitations, tickets, programs, souvenir brochures and guides, and a few artifacts. Guidebooks provide schedules of events and special days at the fair; summaries of displays, exhibits, buildings,...
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