Describes the greatest threats to the human species, including super diseases, ecological calamities, and technology.

"In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn't either human or machine. It's both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving...

Predicts that the American education system is going to experience a bubble burst, just as the housing market did, and offers advice and solutions for parents, educators, and taxpayers on alternatives to the failing school system.

Experts argue that games truly do "believe in you." Games give people a chance to learn at their own pace, take risks, cultivate deeper understanding, fail and still want to try again--right away--and ultimately succeed in ways that too often elude them in school. THis book presents the story of a growing group of visionaries who are pushing to get game controllers into the hands of learners. This small, mostly unconnected group of teachers, researchers,...

"The co-author of Moral Machines explores accountability challenges related to a world shaped by such technological innovations as combat drones, 3-D printers and synthetic organisms to consider how people of the near future can be protected, "--Novelist.