Download or read book Planet Earth in Jeopardy written by Lydia Dotto and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1986-03-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distillation of the report by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), an international effort by over 200 scientisits. Written for a lay audience, it presents the thrust of the original arguments of the two-volume study without the scientific minutiae. Explores the climatic and atmospheric changes induced, radiation and fallout, and the putative biological consequences.

Download or read book Final Jeopardy written by Stephen Baker and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “charming and terrifying” story of IBM’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence, from the Business Week technology writer and author of The Numerati (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought—one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant web page, but understands and communicates with us. With the creation of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal. In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson’s “life,” from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson’s eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how Watson’s breakthroughs and the future of artificial intelligence could transform medicine, law, marketing, and even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it. “The place to go if you’re really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence.” —The Seattle Times “Like Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, Baker’s book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It’s an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like a cross between Born Yesterday and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baker’s narrative is both . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence—and a sobering glimpse of things to come.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Download or read book Hacking Planet Earth written by Thomas M. Kostigen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the cutting-edge technology that will enable us to confront the realities of climate change. For decades scientists and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming. We are now past the tipping point. As floods, storms, and extreme temperatures become our daily reality, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" efforts aren't enough anymore. In Hacking Planet Earth, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen takes readers to the frontlines of geoengineering projects that scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, and other visionaries around the world are developing to solve the problems associated with climate change. From giant parasols hovering above the Earth to shield us from an unforgiving sun, to lasers shooting up into clouds to coax out much-needed water, Kostigen introduces readers to this inspiring work and the people who are spearheading it. These futurist, far- thinking, world-changing ideas will save us, and Hacking Planet Earth offers readers their new vision for the future.

Download or read book You Can Remake the World written by Laurent Claude Mekongo Mengue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays world is a world divided into two categories: The world of the confident and the world of disenchanted. The world of the confident is one of riches, and powerful people (rich and developed countries); in short, the world of horrible and misleading neologisms who live at the expense of those who listen to them. This is a minority world where people are unscrupulous: the world of the wicked. Although a majority one, but it is a world of the damned, suffered, crushed, and manipulated to remain more in their sore; this is the world of weaker and less wealthy, where living beings are exposed to all the evils that bully people today. To overcome this inequality of nations, we need to decide to renounce violence, to bring peace in the world. This is the big change requested; it may not be for everyone, but it is necessary and a concern for a world of pride and freedom.

Download or read book Thinking the Unthinkable written by Lydia Dotto and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overwhelming majority of climatologists believe there will be significant changes in climate during the next century. Although the rate and magnitude of this change are uncertain, it could happen very rapidly. In August 1987, a working group of fifty scientists and humanists from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, and Canada gathered in Calgary to focus their attention on the impact upon civilization of sudden climate change. One of the more revealing aspects of climate change discussed in Thinking the Unthinkable: Civilization and Rapid Climate Change is that contrary to the popular viewpoint complex societies are more vulnerable to environmental and climate disruption than less “advanced” societies. This work was written to emphasize the gravity of the situation we now face. It should serve to inform not only those concerned with our global environment, but more importantly the policy makers who will be responsible for setting new guidelines and policies aimed at safeguarding our fragile environment.

Download or read book The World Environment 1972 1992 written by O. El-Kholy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our planet is under siege. Assaults on the atmosphere -the greenhouse effect, the depletion of the ozone layer and increasing air pollution - pose a still unquantified threat to human life. The dumping of hazardous wastes, and land based sources of pollution, present a similar threat to the oceans. On land we are destroying a tropical forest the size of Austria every year, and more than a hundred species of wild plants and animals are lost forever each day. When the General Assembly of the United Nations established UNEP it charged us with reporting on the changing state of the world's environment, tracking the underlying causes of change, and working with governments to develop responses to those changes. Every year since 1974, UNEP has produced a State of the Environment report, focusing on one or more emerging environmental issues and always stressing the human factor -the impact of environmental quality on people and society. Three times since its inception (1982, 198 7 and 1992) UNEP has undertaken a more wide-ranging study. The results of the present study are the most disturbing of the three. However, not all the signs are negative. Throughout the 19 70s and into the 1980s, UNEP was able to report progress in some important areas. Environmental monitoring capacity was being rapidly improved in many parts of the world, and Ministries of the Environment were being set up in an attempt to deal with environmental threats in a more coherent way.

Download or read book Danger Planet Earth written by Dr. E. Finikiotis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines the evidence that global warming is caused by the direct heating effect of the sun’s rays on the planet and provides a step-by-step program on what we must do to arrest this. The G20 nations should join forces to attain the cooperation of all nations to initiate the program as soon as possible to stop the global warming advance and make this a priority strategy. Desertification, partly due to global warming, is progressing at an alarming rate.

Download or read book Danger Planet Earth written by E. Finikiotis and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines the evidence that global warming is caused by the direct heating effect of the sun's rays on the planet and provides a step-by-step program on what we must do to arrest this. The G20 nations should join forces to attain the cooperation of all nations to initiate the program as soon as possible to stop the global warming advance and make this a priority strategy. Desertification, partly due to global warming, is progressing at an alarming rate.

Download or read book Falter written by Bill McKibben and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

Download or read book If Someone Could Remake the World written by Claude Saint Laurent and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All these information can be seen in the manuscript: "The advice of the author" in English " Conseil de l'auteur" in French

Download or read book Tipping Point for Planet Earth written by Anthony D. Barnosky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people are born every second of every day. Conservative estimates suggest that there will be 10 billion people on Earth by 2050. That is billions more than the natural resources of our planet can sustain without big changes in how we use and manage them. So what happens when vast population growth endangers the world’s food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet’s biodiversity? What happens if some or all of these become critical at once? Just what is our future? In Tipping Point for Planet Earth, world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges toward resource wars for remaining space, food, oil, and water. And as they show, these wars are not the nightmares of a dystopian future, but are already happening today. Finally, they ask: at what point will inaction lead to the break-up of the intricate workings of the global society? The planet is in danger now, but the solutions, as Barnosky and Hadly show, are still available. We still have the chance to avoid the tipping point and to make the future better. But this window of opportunity will shut within ten to twenty years. Tipping Point for Planet Earth is the wake-up call we need.

Download or read book Danger Planet Earth written by E. Finikiotis and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines the evidence that global warming is caused by the direct heating effect of the sun's rays on the planet and provides a step-by-step program on what we must do to arrest this. The G20 nations should join forces to attain the cooperation of all nations to initiate the program as soon as possible to stop the global warming advance and make this a priority strategy. Desertification, partly due to global warming, is progressing at an alarming rate.

Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Threats Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s written by Eckart Conze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Download or read book World Population and Food Supply and Demand Situation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Departmental Operations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World Population and Food Supply and Demand Situation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Welcome to Planet Earth 2050 Population Zero written by Robert Hull and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical Prophecy, the predictions of The Hopi Indians, Sir Isaac Newton's calculations for Armageddon, The final WAR described in The Dead Sea Scrolls, the current unrest on Planet Earth and nuclear proliferation point to WWIII unless Jesus Christ returns.