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From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech's boldest thinkers and¿ The Economist's "best CEO of 2024," and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West's culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambit...

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Under kalla kriget bedrevs omfattande forskning för militära syften i Sverige. Den var synnerligen viktig för såväl försvaret som det civila samhället. Trots det är den militära forskningen nästan helt okänd idag. Författarna till Det dolda univer...

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** A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2025 ** 'Silverman's sharp and ominous account delves into the radicalizing worldviews of Silicon Valley billionaires in the lead-up to Donald Trump's reelection [...] It's an essential unmasking of the growing ...

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A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfull...

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When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction...

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A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfull...

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Just when we most need our government to work - to decarbonise our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats - it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the di...

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How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to t...

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An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, and what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology. In recent decades, a new style of authoritarian politics has taken hold throug...

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An eye-opening examination of how power-not technology-will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so gr...

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How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world. On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world ...

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The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination....

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From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children. AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. ...

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Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the degree to which its scope of possibilities and its premise are characterized by global existential ris...

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Can octopuses fee...

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Multiple¿New York Times¿best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, team up to expose the truth-and end the madness-about COVID-19. Since early 2020, the world has experienc...

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As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting them into the reader's consciousness. Writing Science is built upon the idea...

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Few people question the importance of science education in American schooling. The public readily accepts that it is the key to economic growth through innovation, develops the ability to reason more effectively, and enables us to solve the everyd...

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Sedan 1974 har Beijerstiftelsen främjat samhället genom sina bidrag till forskning, utbildning och kultur. I den här jubileumsboken berättar Anders Wall och Cecilia Wikström, tillsammans med några av Stiftelsens forskare och professorer om Stiftel...

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A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress...

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