Winning a staggering $100 million in a state lottery brings immense confusion for a young boy who is bound by a secret. As he navigates the complexities of his newfound wealth, he grapples with the challenges of keeping it hidden from family and friends. The story explores themes of secrecy, the burden of wealth, and the impact of such a life-changing event on a child's perspective.
The book offers a profound social commentary on the transformative impact of the Web, likening it to the revolutionary insights of Marshall McLuhan on media. Weinberger explores how the Web reshapes fundamental concepts like space, time, and reality, using engaging stories and humor. He argues that this technology aligns more closely with our true selves than contemporary society does. Through a unique perspective, the author encourages readers to reassess the Web's significance in their lives, presenting a funny, thought-provoking, and hopeful narrative.
Internet philosopher Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts.
This nationally acclaimed best seller is a spirited, original, and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. A rich tapestry of anecdotes, object lessons, parodies, insights, and predictions, The Cluetrain Manifesto illustrates how the Internet has radically reframed the seemingly immutable laws of business--and what business needs to know to weather the seismic aftershocks.
How the internet and the digital world is radically changing the way information is used in business, education, the media, and politics.
Modern science, the Internet, big data, and AI are each saying the same thing to us: the world is--and always has been--far more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. As a result we're undergoing a sea change in our understanding of how things happen, and in our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our lives and our businesses. For example, machine learning allows us to make better predictions (think the weather, stock performance, online clicks) but we know less about why those predictions are right--and we need to get used to that. And in fact, over the past twenty years we've been unintentionally developing strategies that avoid anticipating what will happen so we don't have to depend on unreliable revenue forecasts, assumptions about customer needs, and hypotheses about how a product will be used. By embracing these strategies, we're flourishing by creating yet more possibilities and yet more unpredictability. In wide-ranging stories and characteristically all-encompassing syntheses, technology researcher, Internet expert, and philosopher David Weinberger reveals the trends that hide in so many aspects of our lives--and shows us how they matter.-- Provided by publisher
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,And shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down,and when thou risest up? Deuteronomy 6:4-7God?s way of teaching our children is time intensive. There are no shortcuts, no way to substitute a few minutes of ?quality? time to replace ?quantity? time. Yet God?s way, of being with our children almost all the time, is the only way to bring out the true joy of child-rearing. Read about the joy that is possible in following Biblical principles for family life in the areas of nursing, foods and mealtime, spiritual life, books and music, homeschooling, celebrating the Feasts of the Lord, fun and games, and more! We think you will enjoy it!
As seen on BoingBoing Everyone can draw! When was the last time you had fun drawing? If it was grade school, you're not alone. In this clever and interactive guide, you'll discover proven tricks and techniques to get past your fear and draw the world around you in surprising and expressive new ways. Before you know it, you'll be drawing faces, animals, old people's hands, celebrities, weird invented creatures, and more -- and loving it.
Consumers are hitting back at uncaring and insensitive corporate cultures. The Cluetrain Manifesto shows how to open a genuine dialogue with advertising-saturated customers seeking authenticity.
Die Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung hochbeschleunigter Zuverlässigkeitstests auf Waferebene unter Einsatz von In-Situ-Heizelementen aus polykristallinem Silizium. Nach einer Einführung in die Zuverlässigkeitstheorie werden verschiedene Zuverlässigkeitstests analysiert, die derzeit zeitaufwändig sind. Die Arbeit schlägt einen innovativen Ansatz vor, bei dem ein Polysilizium-Widerstand direkt in die Struktur integriert wird, um die Wärmequelle zu optimieren. Zudem werden thermische Simulationen zur Wärmeausbreitung durchgeführt und Möglichkeiten zur Temperaturmessung an den Teststrukturen erörtert.