Human Empire
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The Fall Of The Human Empire
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Author : Charles-Edouard Bouée
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-17
The Fall Of The Human Empire written by Charles-Edouard Bouée and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Machines that are smarter than people? A utopian dream of science-fiction novelists and Hollywood screenwriters perhaps, but one which technological progress is turning into reality. Two trends are coming together: exponential growth in the processing power of supercomputers, and new software which can copy the way neurons in the human brain work and give machines the ability to learn. Smart systems will soon be commonplace in homes, businesses, factories, administrations, hospitals and the armed forces. How autonomous will they be? How free to make decisions? What place will human beings still have in a world controlled by robots? After the atom bomb, is artificial intelligence the second lethal weapon capable of destroying mankind, its inventor? The Fall of the Human Empire traces the little-known history of artificial intelligence from the standpoint of a robot called Lucy. She – or it? – recounts her adventures and reveals the mysteries of her long journey with humans, and provides a thought-provoking storyline of what developments in A.I. may mean for both humans and robots.
Human Empire
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Author : Tim Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-10
Human Empire written by Tim Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-10 with categories.
You're human. Weak. Despised. There is only one way to earn respect: to fight and win... a Human Empire. Five centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery. This is their descendants' story of the fight for humanity everywhere. 2569 A.D. Battered but not beaten, the Human Legion follows the trail set for them by the mysterious Night Hummers in their quest for allies and assets. But first the Legion has changed and must ask itself anew: What is the Legion for? Who shall be its leader? In the fourth of the bestselling six-book series, journey to distant planets, experience holy war, hatred, and distorted love as the Human Legion attempts to carve out its own empire amidst the chaos of civil war. You will not journey alone: alien eyes are watching...
Human Empire
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Author : Ted McCormick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-21
Human Empire written by Ted McCormick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-21 with Political Science categories.
Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.
The Triumph Of Human Empire
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Author : Rosalind Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
The Triumph Of Human Empire written by Rosalind Williams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.” Bacon’s make-believe island was not an empire in the usual sense, marked by territorial control; instead, it was the center of a vast general expansion of human knowledge and power. Rosalind Williams uses Bacon’s island as a jumping-off point to explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and triumph of human empire, the apotheosis of the modern ambition to increase knowledge and power in order to achieve world domination. Confronting an intensely humanized world was a singular event of consciousness, which Williams explores through the lives and works of three writers of the late nineteenth century: Jules Verne, William Morris, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As the century drew to a close, these writers were unhappy with the direction in which their world seemed to be headed and worried that organized humanity would use knowledge and power for unworthy ends. In response, Williams shows, each engaged in a lifelong quest to make a home in the midst of human empire, to transcend it, and most of all to understand it. They accomplished this first by taking to the water: in life and in art, the transition from land to water offered them release from the condition of human domination. At the same time, each writer transformed his world by exploring the literary boundary between realism and romance. Williams shows how Verne, Morris, and Stevenson experimented with romance and fantasy and how these traditions allowed them to express their growing awareness of the need for a new relationship between humans and Earth. The Triumph of Human Empire shows that for these writers and their readers romance was an exceptionally powerful way of grappling with the political, technical, and environmental situations of modernity. As environmental consciousness rises in our time, along with evidence that our seeming control over nature is pathological and unpredictable, Williams’s history is one that speaks very much to the present.
The Fall And Rise Of The Human Empire
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Author : T K Martin
language : en
Publisher: United P.C. Verlag
Release Date : 2017-04-06
The Fall And Rise Of The Human Empire written by T K Martin and has been published by United P.C. Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with categories.
Mike Turnball and Marcie Harris. One a test pilot for the RAF, the other a mother grieving for her murdered infant. How can they hope to gather the remains of humanity and fight against an alien race of savage carnivores?
The Triumph Of Human Empire
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Author : Rosalind Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
The Triumph Of Human Empire written by Rosalind Williams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.” Bacon’s make-believe island was not an empire in the usual sense, marked by territorial control; instead, it was the center of a vast general expansion of human knowledge and power. Rosalind Williams uses Bacon’s island as a jumping-off point to explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and triumph of human empire, the apotheosis of the modern ambition to increase knowledge and power in order to achieve world domination. Confronting an intensely humanized world was a singular event of consciousness, which Williams explores through the lives and works of three writers of the late nineteenth century: Jules Verne, William Morris, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As the century drew to a close, these writers were unhappy with the direction in which their world seemed to be headed and worried that organized humanity would use knowledge and power for unworthy ends. In response, Williams shows, each engaged in a lifelong quest to make a home in the midst of human empire, to transcend it, and most of all to understand it. They accomplished this first by taking to the water: in life and in art, the transition from land to water offered them release from the condition of human domination. At the same time, each writer transformed his world by exploring the literary boundary between realism and romance. Williams shows how Verne, Morris, and Stevenson experimented with romance and fantasy and how these traditions allowed them to express their growing awareness of the need for a new relationship between humans and Earth. The Triumph of Human Empire shows that for these writers and their readers romance was an exceptionally powerful way of grappling with the political, technical, and environmental situations of modernity. As environmental consciousness rises in our time, along with evidence that our seeming control over nature is pathological and unpredictable, Williams’s history is one that speaks very much to the present.
Human Rights And Empire
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Author : Costas Douzinas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-03-20
Human Rights And Empire written by Costas Douzinas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-20 with Law categories.
Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions. Asking whether there ‘is an intrinsic relationship between human rights and the recent wars carried out in their name?’ and whether ‘human rights are a barrier against domination and oppression or the ideological gloss of an emerging empire?’ this book examines a range of topics, including: the normative characteristics, political philosophy and metaphysical foundations of our age the subjective and institutional aspects of human rights and their involvement in the creation of identity and definition of the meaning and powers of humanity the use of human rights as a justification for a new configuration of political, economic and military power. Exploring the legacy and the contemporary role of human rights, this topical and incisive book is a must for all those interested in human rights law, jurisprudence and philosophy of law, political philosophy and political theory.
Human Rights And The End Of Empire
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Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
Human Rights And The End Of Empire written by Alfred William Brian Simpson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.
Race Empire And The Idea Of Human Development
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Author : Thomas McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-16
Race Empire And The Idea Of Human Development written by Thomas McCarthy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-16 with Political Science categories.
In an exciting new study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth century, Mill and social Darwinism in the nineteenth, and theories of development and modernization in the twentieth, he proposes a critical theory of development which can counter contemporary neoracism and neoimperialism, and can accommodate the multiple modernities now taking shape. Offering an unusual perspective on the past and present of our globalizing world, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of philosophy, political theory, the history of ideas, racial and ethnic studies, social theory, and cultural studies.
Empire Night On Union Station
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Author : E. M. Foner
language : en
Publisher: Foner Books
Release Date : 2020-07-05
Empire Night On Union Station written by E. M. Foner and has been published by Foner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-05 with Fiction categories.
Can humanity establish its own galactic empire? The population of the Conference of Sovereign Human Communities hits a billion, triggering a previously unnoticed clause in the Tunnel Network Treaty. Has the time finally arrived for the Stryx to remove Earth’s training wheels and let humanity to stand on its own? The EarthCent ambassador gets a crash course in investing from the alien ambassadors but she’s having trouble remembering little things. Dorothy has a new idea to revolutionize the fashion industry while Samuel’s career hits a wall.