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Work of the Future
Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines
Av David H. Autor, David A. Mindell
Häftad, 2023
270 kr
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Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and …
Digital Apollo
Human and Machine in Spaceflight
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil …
Digital Apollo
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA''s Apollo program. As Apollo 11''s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer''s software nearly caused a mission abort. …
Iron Coffin
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
Häftad, 2012
358 kr
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The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this …
New Lunar Society
An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
Inbunden, 2025
341 kr
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How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this …
Our Robots, Ourselves
Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
E-bok, 2015
172 kr
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“[An] essential book… it is required reading as we seriously engage one of the most important debates of our time.”— Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age From drones to Mars rovers—an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a …
Between Human and Machine
Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Häftad, 2004
457 kr
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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between …
Between Human and Machine
Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Inbunden, 2002
571 kr
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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between …
