Future Technology

In AI in the Therapist Chair, we explore how artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming mental health care, offering both new opportunities and significant challenges. You might be wondering: Can AI replicate the empathetic connection of a human therapist? While AI can provide valuable support and accessibility, it can't replace the human touch with those emotional cues and understanding gained from experience. However, with the right human guidance, AI can drive remarkable advancements in mental health care.

Imagine a world with a robot in every home, office, and hospital. While many people may not yet be able to fully conceptualize it, this is the future that awaits us. The robot revolution will change our lives in ways we can't even yet imagine. With rapid advances in robotics technology, artificial intelligence, and battery energy storage, society is on the cusp of witnessing a breakthrough in a new kind of industrial revolution—one that will see intelligent robots playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives.

AI + The New Human Frontier: Reimagining the Future of Time, Trust + Truth by Erica Orange, a renowned futurist, offers a compelling exploration of generative AI's potential to enhance human creativity rather than replace it. This pivotal book navigates how AI tools will help shape the human experience, and aid in augmenting human ingenuity and imagination.

Reduce your work hours and take the first step toward a more efficient, engaging, and fulfilling teaching career. In a world where accessing information has never been easier, the true art of teaching remains invaluable. As an educator, your role is essential, guiding students’ growth and igniting their curiosity. Yet, as the demands of education continue to increase, you may find yourself drowning under an avalanche of tasks and administrative duties. What you need is an intelligent assistant who can take over time-consuming tasks, allowing you to focus on what you do best: teaching.

A través del recuento de los grandes avances de la ciencia el libro nos presenta cuatro grandes expansiones que están transformando la humanidad: La expansión del cuerpo. La expansión de la mente. La expansión de la conciencia. Y la expansión de la realidad.

In AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health, a team of veteran Microsoft AI researchers delivers an insightful and fascinating discussion of how one of the world's most recognizable software companies is tackling intractable social problems with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). In the book, you'll see real in-the-field examples of researchers using AI with replicable methods and reusable AI code to inspire your own uses.

The professional landscape is transforming, and the only way to maintain competitive advantage is to maximize the unique skills of your workforce. In Humanity Works, best-selling author, global workplace consultant, and futurist Alexandra Levit provides a guide to making the most of the human traits of creativity, judgement, problem solving, and interpersonal sensitivity. Revealing what the "robot takeover" will really look like, how talent and machines can work side by side, and how you can make organizational structures more agile and innovation focused, this book will prepare you to lead organizations of the future.

Ready for an AI adventure? The Ultimate Guide to Understanding AI for Kids is the perfect interactive book to blast young minds into the AI-powered future! It’s your child’s trusty tech companion. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our world at lightning speed, reshaping games, gadgets, and beyond. Kids today will lead an AI-driven tomorrow, and this guide prepares them with quick, exciting skills—written by a coder and cybersecurity expert who’s wrangled tech for years.

In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed and described the core components of the futures they envisioned. Montfort's approach is not that of futurology or scenario planning; instead, he reports on the work of making the future - the thinkers who devoted themselves to writing pages in the unwritten book.

If this book sparked a shift in how you see work, learning, or leadership, Future Ready is your next step. In this transformative guide, Daniel Stouffer shows why today’s students don’t need more advice. They need mentors who are willing to evolve. This isn’t another career prep book. It’s a human-first roadmap for navigating uncertainty, leading with purpose, and preparing others for futures we can’t yet predict.

"Smart Ecosystems: Integrating Nature and Technology in Future Cities", the latest installment in the acclaimed Building Digital Twin Metaverse Cities series, delivers a visionary blueprint for urban environments of the future—where cutting-edge technology harmonizes with the beauty of nature. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Samuel Li explores how cities can transition from resource-intensive hubs to regenerative spaces that nurture biodiversity, promote sustainability, and enhance human well-being.

Discover how to stay one step ahead of AI and unlock opportunities as a professional, business owner, and even as a parent! With valuable insights, strategies, and real-life examples, this book provides you with comprehensive tools you need to take meaningful action and stay ahead in the age of AI.

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented degree of technology-driven change at the same time that society faces challenges more complex than our organizations and we as individuals have been prepared to handle. Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence is for leaders who want to create a better future within this context of change and supplies a balance of historical and theoretical context with practical frameworks for beginning to create a more human future today.

Unlock the future of tech with Cloud Computing for Beginners: Learn AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to Future-Proof Your Career and Business—the ultimate beginner’s guide to mastering the most powerful and in-demand cloud platforms in the world. Whether you’re a student, entrepreneur, IT professional, or career switcher, this audiobook will teach you the fundamentals of cloud computing in a way that’s clear, practical, and instantly applicable.

From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it's imperative to assess the role that the internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first, we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating positive social change.

Dive into the future of AI with this audiobook! Embodied AI is transforming the world by seamlessly integrating advanced technologies into real-world applications. This audiobook offers an in-depth exploration of how AI is bridging the gap between simulations and reality. Discover the secrets of Embodied AI and learn how it’s revolutionizing industries. From innovative techniques like Sim2Real Transfer to the latest in Multimodal Perception, this audiobook covers it all.

Discover what exactly blockchain is, what cryptocurrency is and what Bitcoin is. Learn how to use this technology to your advantage. Also learn what the future of money looks like with these new developments.

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America Unlike many other cultures, our collective stance toward older people in the United States has long been one of casual avoidance and neglect. This attitude became brutally clear during...

A teen criminal hacker turned secret operative must outwit a band of cyberterrorists in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Bone Houses. I was fifteen when I became a murderer. After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence...