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Sean A. Culey

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Description:TRANSITION POINT: REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION OR ENDGAME?The world is an uncertain and unnerving place right now. Technological advancement is creating a perfect storm of disruption, changing the way we shop, eat, work and communicate. Our society is becoming increasingly polarised, with social media accelerating an environment where the public lack trust in the establishment and media and rely instead on alternative sources of information that feed their biases. The traditional structures that have underpinned Western society are all unravelling; identity politics is running rampant, and there is a heightened sense of victimhood with demands for the state to intervene. These seem like unparalleled times – or are they? Starting with an investigation into why human progress suddenly exploded in the 18th Century in Britain, rather than in larger, more established or more culturally advanced civilisations, Sean Culey’s new book, Transition Point, explains why the societal structures and individual freedoms that developed in Britain allowed the population’s innovative capabilities to flourish while other nation’s political structures held them back. The author then explains the form and structure of this technologically driven progress, and how and why it comes in waves. Culey then explains why we are now in the transition point between the fifth and sixth technological waves, a time when both the old and new co-exist, creating a society with one foot in the past and one in the future. This is a time of winners and losers, of people with capital and those with just labour. People with desired new wave skills and mindsets, and those with redundant old-wave ones. In Part Two of the book, Culey details the technological advancements contained in this new wave, showing exactly how they are going to combine to automate every aspect of the global workplace, from manual labour to office jobs. Innovations capable of not just replacing human jobs, but also human capabilities such as vision, hearing and speech, that means for the very first time, Homo sapiens is not going to be the fastest, safest or smartest kid on the block. In the third and largest section of the book, Transition Point looks forward and analyses the potential impact of this new wave on our business practices, our scientific and technological advancement, on the economy and, most controversially, on the future of our society. Culey explains what actions are needed to prevent the economy from transforming into a nightmare of uncaring corporatism; a world where the wealth flows into the technocrats, establishment and capital owners, and the modern-day John Henry’s are left behind, outperformed by AI systems, robots and algorithms that work for electricity and never take a break. Culey explains why, during this disruptive period, control is likely to retained via the rolling back of the freedoms and liberties that made this period of progress possible in the first place. As China increasingly utilises technology to gamify life, creating a surveillance society designed to ensure its citizens comply with the rules passed down by their omnipresent government, the West will do likewise, only without the same level of openness and honesty. As western society continues to self-implode through a lack of belief in itself, its heritage or its traditions, these new wave technologies will become instruments of control and much as convenience. Once the citizens realise that their hard-fought freedoms no longer exist there will be resistance, but it will be too late, for once installed there is no going back. New generations will be born into a world of new age bread and circuses; a life of entertainment, enhancements and limited responsibilities. And knowing no different, they will simply accept it, mourning not for that which they never experienced. Finally, Culey details why the collapse of the sixth wave may tear away the final threads holding together society, creating social disruption on a global scale. By the middle of the century, we may see the human race divided by their opinions on whether some humans should become gods - a society split into those who embrace a future of technological and genetic enhancement, and those who strive to retain our human traditions and lifestyle. This is unlikely to be a civilised divorce, and if care is not taken and conscious effort made, the end of the century may well see Homo sapiens go the way of the Neanderthals.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity. To get started finding Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 710

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1789014859

Description: TRANSITION POINT: REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION OR ENDGAME?The world is an uncertain and unnerving place right now. Technological advancement is creating a perfect storm of disruption, changing the way we shop, eat, work and communicate. Our society is becoming increasingly polarised, with social media accelerating an environment where the public lack trust in the establishment and media and rely instead on alternative sources of information that feed their biases. The traditional structures that have underpinned Western society are all unravelling; identity politics is running rampant, and there is a heightened sense of victimhood with demands for the state to intervene. These seem like unparalleled times – or are they? Starting with an investigation into why human progress suddenly exploded in the 18th Century in Britain, rather than in larger, more established or more culturally advanced civilisations, Sean Culey’s new book, Transition Point, explains why the societal structures and individual freedoms that developed in Britain allowed the population’s innovative capabilities to flourish while other nation’s political structures held them back. The author then explains the form and structure of this technologically driven progress, and how and why it comes in waves. Culey then explains why we are now in the transition point between the fifth and sixth technological waves, a time when both the old and new co-exist, creating a society with one foot in the past and one in the future. This is a time of winners and losers, of people with capital and those with just labour. People with desired new wave skills and mindsets, and those with redundant old-wave ones. In Part Two of the book, Culey details the technological advancements contained in this new wave, showing exactly how they are going to combine to automate every aspect of the global workplace, from manual labour to office jobs. Innovations capable of not just replacing human jobs, but also human capabilities such as vision, hearing and speech, that means for the very first time, Homo sapiens is not going to be the fastest, safest or smartest kid on the block. In the third and largest section of the book, Transition Point looks forward and analyses the potential impact of this new wave on our business practices, our scientific and technological advancement, on the economy and, most controversially, on the future of our society. Culey explains what actions are needed to prevent the economy from transforming into a nightmare of uncaring corporatism; a world where the wealth flows into the technocrats, establishment and capital owners, and the modern-day John Henry’s are left behind, outperformed by AI systems, robots and algorithms that work for electricity and never take a break. Culey explains why, during this disruptive period, control is likely to retained via the rolling back of the freedoms and liberties that made this period of progress possible in the first place. As China increasingly utilises technology to gamify life, creating a surveillance society designed to ensure its citizens comply with the rules passed down by their omnipresent government, the West will do likewise, only without the same level of openness and honesty. As western society continues to self-implode through a lack of belief in itself, its heritage or its traditions, these new wave technologies will become instruments of control and much as convenience. Once the citizens realise that their hard-fought freedoms no longer exist there will be resistance, but it will be too late, for once installed there is no going back. New generations will be born into a world of new age bread and circuses; a life of entertainment, enhancements and limited responsibilities. And knowing no different, they will simply accept it, mourning not for that which they never experienced. Finally, Culey details why the collapse of the sixth wave may tear away the final threads holding together society, creating social disruption on a global scale. By the middle of the century, we may see the human race divided by their opinions on whether some humans should become gods - a society split into those who embrace a future of technological and genetic enhancement, and those who strive to retain our human traditions and lifestyle. This is unlikely to be a civilised divorce, and if care is not taken and conscious effort made, the end of the century may well see Homo sapiens go the way of the Neanderthals.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity. To get started finding Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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