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  • Next Civilization

    Digital Democracy and Socio-Ecological Finance - How to Avoid Dystopia and Upgrade Society by Digital Means

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    "Digital transformation" sounds harmless, given that the explosion in data volumes, processing power and Artificial Intelligence has driven humanity and the entire world to a point of no return. We will surely see a new civilization, but we are at a crossroads. The future needs to be re-invented, decisions must be taken.After the automation of factories and the creation of self-driving cars, the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Quantitative Sociodynamics

    Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes

    by Dirk Helbing ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    When I wrote the book Quantitative Sociodynamics, it was an early attempt to make methods from statistical physics and complex systems theory fruitful for the modeling and understanding of social phenomena. Unfortunately, the ?rst edition appeared at a quite prohibitive price. This was one reason to make these chapters available again by a new edition. The other reason is that, in the meantime, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks

    Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle

    by Luigi Ambrosio, Alberto Bressan, Dirk Helbing, Axel Klar, Enrique Zuazua, Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In recent years flows in networks have attracted the interest of many researchers from different areas, e.g. applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, economists. The main reason for this ubiquity is the wide and diverse range of applications, such as vehicular traffic, supply chains, blood flow, irrigation channels, data networks and others. This book presents an extensive set of notes by ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System

    A Participatory Framework to Promote Sustainability

    Edited by Marcus M. Dapp, Dirk Helbing, Stefan Klauser ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system.We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science team at ETH ... Read more

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    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

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  • Limits and Beyond

    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    by Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Read more

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  • Leadership 2030

    The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future

    by Georg Vielmetter, Yvonne Sell ...
    Tomorrow’s changes are coming. With guidance from this invaluable resource, you can prepare for them today!The tumultuous changes in the business world during the last decade have forced too many to focus on the short term, rushing to figure out how to produce quarterly profits in chaotic conditions. As a result, the longer view is often obscured, leaving businesses so busy fighting today’s ... Read more

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  • Superminds

    The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

    by Thomas W. Malone ...
    From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together.If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this ... Read more

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  • Entering the Shift Age

    The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation

    by David Houle ...
    Praise for David Houle"Houle breaks down big ideas into easily digestible, entertaining small bites…Crack this book open whenever globalization's gotten you down."—Slate.com."The Shift Age lifts us out of the rapids of techno-change and helps us see the course of the river we've been rafting on."-Howard Bloom, author of the GOD PROBLEM and GLOBAL BRAIN"[The Shift Age] is must read for anyone who ... Read more

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  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

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  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    by Donald A. Norman ...
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  • A Dangerous Master

    How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control

    by Wendell Wallach ...
    We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone; makers and hackers can 3D-print guns as well as tools; and supercomputers can short-circuit Wall Street just as ... Read more

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