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Confronting Dystopia
InConfronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront.
The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. AsConfronting Dystopiashows, we are on the eve of-indeed we are already amid-a technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world.
Across a broad and deep set of topics, the contributors explore whether the need for labor will inexorably shrink in the coming decades, how pressure on employment will impact human well-being, and what new institutional arrangements-a new social contract, for example, will be needed to sustain livelihoods. They evaluate such proposals as a basic income, universal social services, and investments that address key global challenges and create new jobs.
Contributors:Vandana Chandra, Mignon Duffy, Dieter Ernst, Vincent Ferraro, Martin Ford, Juliana Martinez Franzoni, Irmgard Nubler, Robert Pollin, David Rueda, Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Guy Standing, Stefan Thewissen
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Creating the twentieth century : technical innovations of 1867-1914 and their lasting impact
This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of unprecedented technical advances that took place in Europe and North America during the three pre-WWI generations and of their truly epochal consequences. It takes a close look at four classes of fundamental innovations: formation, diffusion, and standardization of electricity-generating systems and the distribution and uses of this most versatile form of energy; invention and rapid adoption of internal combustion engines, the dominant prime mover in transportation; the unprecedented pace of the introduction of new materials and industrial chemical syntheses; and the birth of a new information age thanks to the new means of communication. These chapters are followed by an evaluation of the lasting impact these advances had on the 20th century, that is, the creation of high-energy societies engaged in mass production aimed at improving standards of living.
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Innovating with impact
The authors show how to create innovations that deliver customer value. Their Innovation Pyramid outlines a strategic process that is rooted in the right cultures and mindsets and uses a range of methods, techniques and themes to reach the pinnacle of maximum impact.
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Tech, Smart Cities, and Regional Development in Contemporary Russia
With chapters on FinTech, the cost of technological growth, and innovation risk management, Tech, Smart Cities and Regional Development in Contemporary Russiagrapples with ideas about technology and the intertwined issues that Russia faces in the 21st Century.
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The diffusion of military power
The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity to accommodate any necessary changes in recruiting, training, or operations. How countries react to new innovations--and to other actors that do or don't adopt them--has profound implications for the global order and the likelihood of war.
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Handbook of research on innovation, differentiation, and new technologies in tourism, hotels, and food service
\"Expand knowledge about tourism, hospitality and food service activities; Systematize knowledge about innovation in tourism, hospitality and food service; Know processes and digitalization media in tourism and hospitality; Disseminate products, services and differentiated tourist practices; Promote good practices and strategies in the operationalization of tourism and hospitality; Announce models of governance and innovation in tourism, hospitality and food service; Provide knowledge about management and planning models in tourism and hospitality sector; Encourage the transfer of knowledge between the research done and the professions in tourism sector; Stimulate entrepreneurship activities in tourism sector; Value heritage and cultural identities as assets for tourism and hospitality; Build scientific resources to evaluate Tourism, Hospitality sector and its trends; Promote applied research in tourism, hospitality and food service\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book focuses on current and future use of RAISA technologies in the tourism economy, including examples from the hotel, restaurant, travel agency, museum, and events industries.
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