The Two Faces of Tomorrow - 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 Two Faces of Tomorrow write by James P. Hogan. This book was released on 1997. The Two Faces of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the mid-21st Century, technology had become much too complicated for humans to handle -- and the computer network that had grown up to keep civilization from tripping over its own shoelaces was also beginning to be overwhelmed. Something Had To Be Done.As a solution, Raymond Dyer's project developed the first genuinely self-aware artificial intelligence -- code name: Spartacus. But could Spartacus be trusted to obey its makers? And if it went rogue, could it be shut down? As an acid test, Spartacus was put in charge of a space station and programmed with a survival instinct. Dyer and his team had the job of seeing how far the computer would go to defend itself when they tried to pull the plug. Dyer didn't expect any serious problems to arise in the experiment.Unfortunately, he had built more initiative into Spartacus than he realized....And a superintelligent computer with a high dose of initiative makes a dangerous guinea pig.
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
The Two Faces of Tomorrow - 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 Two Faces of Tomorrow write by James P. Hogan. This book was released on 1979. The Two Faces of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civilization has grown too complex. A computer is needed that has logic and common sense. It is up to Raymond Dyer and his team to install a super computer on an orbiting satellite and program it to survive.
The Two Faces of American Freedom
The Two Faces of American Freedom - 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 Two Faces of American Freedom write by Aziz Rana. This book was released on 2014-04-07. The Two Faces of American Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule—one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America’s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
The Two Faces of Tomorrow - 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 Two Faces of Tomorrow write by James P. Hogan. This book was released on 1997. The Two Faces of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Two Faces of Liberalism (Large Print 16pt)
Two Faces of Liberalism (Large Print 16pt) - 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 Two Faces of Liberalism (Large Print 16pt) write by John Gray. This book was released on 2010-10. Two Faces of Liberalism (Large Print 16pt) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like its widely praised predecessor False Dawn, Two Faces of Liberalism, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ''elegant and powerful,'' offers a thoughtful and provocative analysis of the liberal tradition in politics. John Gray, an eminent professor at the London School of Economics, ''picks large and interesting topics and says arresting things about them,'' according to the New York Review of Books. Two Faces of Liberalism argues that, in its beginning, liberalism contained two contradictory philosophies of tolerance. In one, it put forward the enlightenment vision of a universal civilization. In the other, it framed terms for peaceful coexistence between warring communities and between different ways of life. In this major contribution to political theory, Gray's new book ''takes us beyond the current debate''(The New York Times Book Review) of traditional liberalism to keep up with the complex political realities of today's increasingly divided world.
