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1) Get Smart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Secret agent Maxwell Smart and his fellow spies Agent 99 and Agent 23 work to protect their agency and the world from the evil masterminds at KAOS.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998" Philip Ball is an associate editor for physical sciences with Nature. He contributes regular articles on all fields of science to the academic and popular press, and is the author of Designing the Molecular World (Princeton) and The Self-Made Tapestry (Oxford).
Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
Made to Break is...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines how developments in modern science, such as DNA analysis and spectroscopy, have helped to reopen archaeological mysteries about ancient cities, Egypt's first female pharaoh, a missing expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and more, with illustrations, maps, and photographs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This "alarming, believable, and utterly consuming" (bestselling author Dan Brown) thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and the Penn Cage series explores the terrifying possibility that the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all...
Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears....
Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system.
"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required?...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Cell phones. Video games. E-books. Technology is taking off today like never before. Come along for the ride! Discover how inventions of the past are shaping our world today and how technology will change our world tomorrow."--P. [4] of cover.
14) 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation of the iPod
Author
Publisher
Plume/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
16) Spy technology
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn't either human or machine. Its both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"While Alec Ross was working as Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor on Innovation, he traveled to forty-one countries. He visited some of the toughest places in the world--from refugee camps of Congo to Syrian war zones. From phone-charger stands in eastern Congo to R&D labs in South Korea, Ross has seen what the future holds. Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future,...
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