Melanie Swan主要从事于信息科技的社科方向研究，撰写过大量相关的著作，她是区块链科学研究所（ Institute for Blockchain Studies）的创立者，这是一个针对区块链技术用于研究哲学和社科研究的非盈利机构。作为金斯顿大学和巴黎大学的当代哲学研究生，致力于信息理论和技术理念。Melanie的研究兴趣包括大数据哲学、生物公民、自我量化，未来的个人身份，以及认知增强等许多方面。她已经获得宾夕法尼亚大学的沃顿商学院金融MBA学位，并且在富达和摩根大通有丰富的工作经验。目前在奇点大学（谷歌和美国宇航局联合设立致力于培养未来科学家的学校）担任量化方式和预测市场指导员。

Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency ("Blockchain 1.0") and smart contracts ("Blockchain 2.0") to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, a...(展开全部)

David Korten has fleshed out the alternative to the corporate Wall Street economy: a Main Street economy based on locally owned, community-oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.

Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Econom...(展开全部)

Blockchain for Business 2019 is a comprehensive guide that enables you to bring in various blockchain functionalities to extend your existing business models and make correct fully-informed decisions. You will learn how decentralized applications are transforming numerous business sectors that are expected to play a huge role in the future. You will see how large corporations are already implementing blockchain technology now. You will then learn about the various blockchain services, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, and others to understand their use cases in a variety of business domains. You will develop a solid fundamental understanding of blockchain architecture. Moving ahead, you will get to grips with the inner workings of blockchain, with detailed explanations of mining, decentralized consensus, cryptography, smart contracts, and many other important concepts. You will delve into a realistic view of the current state of blockchain technology, along with its issues, limitations, and potential solutions that can take it to the next level.By the end of this book, you will all be well versed in the latest innovations and developments in the emerging blockchain space.

The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century. Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social ...(展开全部)

A Song for a New Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Sarah Pinsker, first published in trade paperback and ebook by Berkley Books in September 2019. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and ebook by Ad Astra/Head of Zeus in August 2020. In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concert...(展开全部)

A Song for a New Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Sarah Pinsker, first published in trade paperback and ebook by Berkley Books in September 2019. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and ebook by Ad Astra/Head of Zeus in August 2020. In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concert...(展开全部)

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken o...(展开全部)

A Song for a New Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Sarah Pinsker, first published in trade paperback and ebook by Berkley Books in September 2019. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and ebook by Ad Astra/Head of Zeus in August 2020. In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concert...(展开全部)