The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith
Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Steve Case
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501132598
Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs, shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. We are entering, he explains, a new paradigm called the "Third Wave" of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw companies like Google and Facebook build on top of the Internet to create search and social networking capabilities, while apps like Snapchat and Instagram leverage the smartphone revolution. Now, Case argues, we're entering the Third Wave: a period in which entrepreneurs will vastly transform major "real world" sectors like health, education, transportation, energy, and food-and in the process change the way we live our daily lives.
Author : Robert Stephens Staley
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555873790
Though the United Nations will face numerous challenges on the world's oceans in the next decades, it has not yet developed the capability to operate effectively in the areas of maritime peacekeeping or enforcement. This study examines the various regional maritime challenges confronting the United Nations and describes several organisational and experiential models - ranging from Claiborne Pell's early suggestions for an International Sea Patrol, through various NATO standing forces and US Coast Guard models, to recent experience gained through multinational maritime co-operation in the Gulf - from which planners might extract important lessons. The author concludes with specific recommendations for the establishment of a UN Maritime Agency, seeing that step as crucial in the effort to ensure peace and prosperity on the world's oceans.
Author : Markku Wilenius
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786342901
Patterns of the Future explains the current world using the theory of long-term development waves (Kondratiev waves). Markku Wilenius, Professor of Futures Studies, argues that we are now entering the sixth wave: the age of intelligent, integrated technologies, helping to restore the balance between humans, technology and nature by radically improved material and energy efficiency and a wiser use of human potential.The unfolding sixth wave will challenge our current values, institutions and business models. Using a systems-based approach, Patterns of the Future analyses how corporations and the public sector can navigate in the sixth wave. Case studies look at specific examples of this, using high-profile companies to demonstrate both the best- (and worst-) case scenarios of innovation for change.This book spans concepts from multiple disciplines in the social sciences, making it relevant not only to undergraduate and graduate students in futures studies, environmental studies, economics, and business, but also national policymakers, think tanks, corporate operators and indeed for any one seriously interested in the future.
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316300160
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
Author : Richard A. Houghten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401004641
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Peptide Symposium and the Seventeenth American Peptide Symposium, held on 9-14 June, 2001, at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, California. The biennial meeting was held under the auspices of the American Peptide Society. In addition to the main Symposium, we were honored to have the Merrifield Satellite Symposium, honoring Bruce Merrifield's accomplishments on his 80th birthday. Over 1250 participants from around the world attended the lectures, posters, and exhibits. Reflecting the international nature of the Symposium, there were participants from 37 countries in attendance. In addition to the 75 plenary lectures, there were over 575 poster presentations, and 70 commercial exhibits as well as booths from the American, Australian, Chinese, European, and Japanese Peptide Societies. These proceedings include plenary lectures and oral and poster presentations collected from a wide diversity of topics providing a truly comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of peptide science. This publication contains essential reference information for researchers active in peptide science.
Author : Alec Ross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476753652
"Innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them"--
Author : Shana Montesol Johnson
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1949036626
Peer coaching is an often-overlooked but vital tool for bringing personal and professional development to employees. In “Peer Coaching: The Wave of the Future,” Shana Montesol Johnson details the ins and outs of this low-cost, high-impact, customizable training option, explaining: · what peer coaching is and its various forms · potential benefits and pitfalls as well as how to address them · methods to set up successful peer coaching · ways to test peer coaching before launching a full program.
Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0385666683
A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them. The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships, the extreme surfers willing to stare down death in order to ride them, and the marine scientists trying to unlock the physics of these waves, the climate changes that are provoking them, and what chaos they might wreak. Susan Casey explores the phenomenon of monster waves and how they have become an obsession for extreme surfers like Laird Hamilton — who serves as the author's guide as she takes the reader into the intense, white-knuckle world of 100-foot waves.
Author : Humphrey Jd Humphrey
Publisher : Wordclay
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2008-07
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ISBN : 1604812176