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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

Marietje Schaake - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it. Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have...
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Marketing with AI For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Shiv Singh - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Stay ahead in the marketing game by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence AI & Marketing For Dummies is your introduction to the revolution that's occurring in the marketing industry, thanks to artificial intelligence tools that can create text, images, audio, video, websites,...
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Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Shannon Belew - For Dummies
Format: 7th Edition

Establish a successful online business and grow your customer baseStarting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies is the compass you need to navigate the exciting world of e-commerce. You'll discover the latest web trends, learn the basics of designing a website, and get tips for creating...
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

Parmy Olson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige...
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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Arvind Narayanan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI - and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products. Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere...
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Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World

Marijam Did - Verso
Format: Paperback

An insider's account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good. Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with...
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World

Mark Miodownik - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us - they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere....
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find...
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Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance

Nathaniel Eliason - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

THE WILD INSIDE STORY OF CRYPTO'S GET-RICH-QUICK UNDERBELLY. Nat Eliason had six months to make as much money as possible before his first child was born. So, he turned to where countless others did in 2021: Crypto. . Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds...
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Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future

Jeremy Kahn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create...
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