Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only b...(展开全部)

Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Basic income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only b...(展开全部)

Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at ...(展开全部)

A Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of Money Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in ter...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures[registered], a revolutionary computer game that allows players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevi...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevit...(展开全部)

[美]罗伯特·D.帕特南(Robert D.Putnam) 1941年生，美国当代杰出的政治社会学家，曾担任美国政治学会主席。哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院前院长、马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士。2006年荣获美国政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，2013年获美国国家人文勋章。他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问。已著书15部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均有卓越原创贡献。代表作《使民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪英文学界引证最多的社会科学著作，在我国学界和思想界也有广泛影响。 [美]谢琳·罗姆尼·加勒特(Shaylyn Romney Garrett) 毕业于哈佛大学政府系，作家、演说家和社会改革家。是阿斯彭研究所倡议的“织网：社会结构项目”的创始人。2011年，荣获德...(展开全部)

彼得·迈尔斯（Peter Meyers） 斯坦福大学沟通力与领导力讲座教授，他开设的课程，连续八年被评为最受学生欢迎的公开课。他也曾被美国伊莎兰学院、瑞士洛桑国际管理发展学院聘请到校任教。同时，他也是美国Stand & Deliver咨询集团创始人，该集团成立20余年，专为美国政要、全球500强公司高管及世界各国领导人的演讲沟通提供一对一的特别培训和指导。 尚恩·尼克斯(Shann Nix) 屡获殊荣的新闻记者、小说家和剧作家。她曾在全美三大商业广播电视公司之一的美国广播公司下属的电台做访谈类节目主持人，该节目的听众超过100万。她和彼得·迈尔斯一起致力于高效沟通的培训工作，积攒了丰富的实践经验。

It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock's new book . . . that people who make prediction their business--people who appear as experts on television, get quoted in newspaper articles, advise governments and businesses, and participate in punditry roundtables--are no better than the rest of us. When they're wrong, they're rarely held accountable, and they rarely ad...(展开全部)

Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He eva...(展开全部)