Inventing the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Future write by Nick Srnicek. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Inventing the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.
Inventing Future Cities
Inventing Future Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Future Cities write by Michael Batty. This book was released on 2018-12-11. Inventing Future Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.
Postcapitalism
Postcapitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcapitalism write by Paul Mason. This book was released on 2016-02-09. Postcapitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Inventing the Future in an Age of Contingency
Inventing the Future in an Age of Contingency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Future in an Age of Contingency write by André Folloni. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Inventing the Future in an Age of Contingency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a world where communication and language are not as divisive as they once were, we are experiencing a convergence unlike any other. Through technology and a broadening of our cultural understanding, we are opening doors and closing communication borders. While it is easier to adapt to and enter each other’s worlds, still we must navigate complex systems to understand operations within groups and organisations. Our experiences allow us more acceptance, but education is the only door to full comprehension. The chapters in this volume challenge readers to explore complexity theory and offer elements that support the continued and ever-growing need for its use. The book explores technology, culture, and science to navigate systems within organisations, in order to divulge the broad spectrum in which complexity theory may be utilised.
The Electronics Revolution
The Electronics Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Electronics Revolution write by J.B. Williams. This book was released on 2017-05-25. The Electronics Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives – the way we work, live, and play. It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices, and integrated circuits, through radio and television, to computers, mobile telephones and GPS. Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home and computers dominate the workspace. We walk around with mobile phones and communicate by email. Electronics didn’t exist until into the twentieth century. The industrial revolution is the term usually applied to the coming of steam, railways and the factory system. In the twentieth century, it is electronics that has changed the way we gather our information, entertain ourselves, communicate and work. This book demonstrates that this is, in fact, another revolution.
