AI 2041

AI 2041
Author: Kai-Fu Lee
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2024-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0593238311

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.

Antarctica 2041

Antarctica 2041
Author: Robert Swan
Publisher: Random House LLC
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0767931750

An activist and adventurer makes predictions about imminent environmental dangers associated with the 2041 expiration of an international treaty protecting Antarctica and discusses what can be done to prevent specific problems.

2041 The Peoples' United States

2041 The Peoples' United States
Author: T W Powell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2021-01-17
Genre:
ISBN:

The year is 2041, 16 years after The Great Pacific War and 15 years since The Collective came to power. The American Resistance wages a life and death struggle to defeat The Collective and their Chinese puppet masters. Patriots from the hills of Kentucky, the swamps of Georgia, the Falls of the Ohio, the high desert of Nevada, and the Bay Area answer the call.

Overclocked

Overclocked
Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504757629

Now available for the first time with two additional stories! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok. "Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"—systems administrators—as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too. Plus, for the first time, this collection includes "Petard" and "The Man Who Sold the Moon."

The Last Bastion of Civilization

The Last Bastion of Civilization
Author: Andrew Blencowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9780947480028

The Last Bastion of Civilization is a scenario analysis in the form of a series of letters and essays from various intellectuals and leading figures written in 2041. Extrapolating from present day events, it chronicles the rise of Japan as the leading superpower of the world by examining relevant economic, cultural, and technological advancements. Coupled with the rise of Japan is the fall of Western society in the wake of massive riots, depressions, and an overall decline in the quality of life. Widespread unemployment, rising illegitimacy, and moral and spiritual decline have led the formerly great United States into a period of extreme mob-driven violence. Europe meets a similar fate, coupled with a decline in the euro and the defaulting of banks. As a work of speculative fiction, The Last Bastion of Civilization offers a critically insightful look at a possible future, a future that will not seem far off from the truth.

Liberty 2041

Liberty 2041
Author: Carolyn Gold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781952998003

Jessica Stafford was thrust into unwilling notoriety ten months ago, after her last interscholastic debate. Overnight, she became a spokesperson and celebrity for kids everywhere; that's when all her problems began. Jess was never out to seek fame, what she wanted was to secure the voting rights for fourteen year olds in the next presidential election. Scarsdale, New York, March 2041, we meet our protagonist as she's presented with her latest challenge. How to stop The World Chancellor from removing kids' sense of freedom; his ideas are nefarious. He plans to deactivate the implanted nano technology in everyone under the age of eighteen.

2041

2041
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Children's stories, American
ISBN: 9780440218982

Twelve fictional stories about school life, fads, inventions, and cultural activities in the future by such authors as Connie Willis, Peg Kerr, and Bruce Coville.

Lee's Miserables

Lee's Miserables
Author: J. Tracy Power
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469620413

Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as during the Civil War. Based on research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this book offers a compelling social history of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865. Organized in a chronological framework, the book uses the words of the soldiers themselves to provide a view of the army's experiences in camp, on the march, in combat, and under siege--from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front, the debate over arming black men in the Confederacy, and the causes of Confederate defeat. Remarkably rich and detailed, Lee's Miserables offers a fresh look at one of the most-studied Civil War armies.

Secession 2041

Secession 2041
Author: Mike Bushman
Publisher: Altfuture Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-06
Genre: Secession
ISBN: 9780988336933

Can the United States be saved from civil war? In 2041, Senator Manny Jones takes charge of a four-state secession battle in America's Southwest to create the Republic of Alta Texas. As he does, the United Nations sends peacekeepers to protect the region's Hispanic majority from genocidal U.S. military retribution for voting to secede. Peacekeeping troops conceal a massive territory grab supported by anti-American terrorists, the world's most powerful drug cartel and nations intent on weakening the United States. U.S. President Marc Phillipi seeks to make amends after a lie he told to win reelection backfires, setting a 72-hour deadline to end a secession quickly turning deadly. Professor Paul Stark and Independent Congresswoman Jill Carlson hold on to each other as they search for solutions others can't see. Two teens maneuver to avoid being trapped in the middle. Just out of high school, the newfound fame of Juan Gonzalez as a leader of Mexican-Americans makes him a primary target for both sides. Camped on the new border with her family, 14-year-old Clarissa Coleman risks her life and endures lost innocence trying to protect America. In Melting Point 2040, America's melting pot reached its boiling point. In Secession 2041, division darkens America's soil with the blood of civil war. Everyday Americans pay with their lives as politically motivated divisions reach an end game. The future builds from a history we are creating today.