From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that all...(展开全部)

彼得·戴曼迪斯（Peter H.Diamandis）  麻省理工学院航空航天工程学学士和硕士，哈佛大学医学院医学博士。  全球商业太空探索的领军人，在长寿、太空、风险投资等领域创办了二十几家公司。  X大奖基金会创始人。戴曼迪斯创立了X大奖基金会，用X大奖的形式鼓励私人太空探索。此后，为了激励人们的创新活动，X大奖基金会在环保、汽车、健康等领域陆续设立了X大奖。  奇点大学创始人兼执行主席。奇点大学的神圣使命，就是培养面向未来的、有“全球性”和“指数性”思维方式的人才。  2014《财富》杂志“全球50位杰出领袖”之一。  畅销书《富足》《创业无畏》作者。 史蒂芬·科特勒（Steven Kotler）  《纽约时报》畅销书作者。两次获得普利策奖提名，作品被翻译为40多种语言在全球出版。  “心流基因组计划”研究的创始人和执行主任。对世...(展开全部)

彼得·戴曼迪斯（Peter Diamandis）  全球商业太空探索的领军人，共创立了十几家商业太空探索公司，已将8位顾客送上了国际空间站。  X大奖创始人。戴曼迪斯创立了X大奖基金会，用X大奖的形式鼓励私人太空探索。此后，为了激励人们的创新活动，X大奖基金会在环保、汽车、健康等领域陆续设立了X大奖。  奇点大学执行主席。戴曼迪斯和库兹韦尔提出：要聚集世界上最聪明的大脑，让他们学习最前沿的未来科学，去解决世界上最宏大的问题。因此，两人共同创立了奇点大学（Singularity University），致力于培养面向未来的、有“全球性”和“指数型”思维方式的人才。 斯蒂芬·科特勒（Steven Kotler）  流动基因组计划创始人之一、总裁，作家及优秀记者。

Imagine 6.8 billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and non-polluting and ubiquitous energy. Since the dawn of humanity there has always been a privileged, prosperous few living in stark contrast to the majority struggling with disease, starvation and poverty. At first glance it seems that we'll never ...(展开全部)

"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are...(展开全部)

• "Berkley Medallion Edition, October, 1969" • The artist is not credited, J. Jones is on the artwork • X1751 on the cover; 425-01751-060 on the spine; SBN: 425-01751-6 on the copyright page Darker Than You Think is a science fantasy and horror novel by American writer Jack Williamson. Originally a novelette, it was expanded into novel length and published by Fantasy Press in 1...(展开全部)

Who is the child of the night? That's what small-town reported Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding. Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious and seductive April Bell and starts having disturbing, tantalizing dreams in which he do...(展开全部)

Through compelling personal stories, Sylvia Earle puts the peril of the ocean and its life in perspective for a wide public audience. Less than 10 per cent of all fish species remain. Half the coral reefs globally have died or are in sharp decline. Since the 1950s, 300 dead zones - oxygen-deficient areas that can't sustain life - have appeared along coasts. Contaminated water i...(展开全部)

about this book A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis. In recent decades we’ve learned more about the ocean than in all ...(展开全部)

The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how so...(展开全部)