Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human.
The bestselling author of "The End of Nature" now looks into the not-so-distant future, when genetic science, robotics, and nanotechnology will push against the very door of humankind's immortality, and he challenges readers to confront this most profound question of their existence with care, intelligence, and ultimately, humility.
Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology.
From old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinct behind? Businesses are leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. The startling and often unacknowledged truth is that?the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people.?In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them. In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala?teaches you to: Understand how to unleash the significant benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital. Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies: cold cultures with little human interaction, poor innovation stemming from discouraged employees who don’t contribute ideas, and poor customer service due to automated, robotic processes. Explore how organizations of various sizes and from different industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity. Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology. Everyone working in an organization will find penetrating observations and guidance about how and why establishing the proper balance between human intuition and creativity and data-driven insights can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention—and even joy—in their careers and business. Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement, and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.
A pragmatic framework for nonprofit digital transformation that embraces the human-centered nature of your organization The Smart Nonprofit turns the page on an era of frantic busyness and scarcity mindsets to one in which nonprofit organizations have the time to think and plan — and even dream. The Smart Nonprofit offers a roadmap for the once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake work and accelerate positive social change. It comes from understanding how to use smart tech strategically, ethically and well. Smart tech does rote tasks like filling out expense reports and identifying prospective donors. However, it is also beginning to do very human things like screening applicants for jobs and social services, while paying forward historic biases. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine elegantly outline the ways smart nonprofits must stay human-centered and root out embedded bias in order to success at the compassionate and creative work that only humans can and should do.
Ter z M zes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race. Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Ter z and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives. In June 1944, Ter z and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Ter z and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945. Staying Human Through the Holocaust, originally titled Beverzett kot blak ("Shattered Tablets"), was published in Hungarian in 1993 and in Romanian in 1995. Told in a direct and riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest and most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual and historical point of view.
Written specifically for residents and interns, this guide contains updated resources and information on Internet learning; the resident's role as teacher; ways of avoiding physical, violent, and sexual-boundary violations with patients; ethical guidelines; and planning a career.
Bernhard and Glantz attribute many workplace problems to a basic conflict between human nature and the structure of modern organizations. Because human beings evolved in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands, most humans have emotional needs that can best be satisfied in small groups that are based on personal reciprocity, sharing, teamwork, and genuine interdependence. In such groups, leadership can be based on acknowledged personal ability, everyone can feel important, and the common goal can weld people together in a way that is both efficient and personally satisfying. The authors see the formal hierarchies of modern organizations, where authority often replaces leadership, as the resurgence of pre-human primate social relationships in which bluffing, threatening, and intimidation played a major role. Numerous and varied examples from the workplace lend the analysis graphic immediacy and authenticity. Many theories have been advanced to explain such workplace phenomena as endemic dissatisfaction, low productivity, and high absenteeism. Many books have argued that teams, a democratic management style, and employee participation are essential, given an educated work force that doesn't live in fear of being fired. Staying Human in the Organization is the first book to relate these themes to evolutionary biology, the discipline which in recent years has been revolutionizing the behavioral sciences. The result is a new way of thinking about labor relations and organizational development.
Staying Human Within this writing we discuss America’s and particularly Black America’s slide into decadence, depravity, and despair and how this will lead to its subjugation to the coming tyranny of Artificial intelligence. If we look with an open mind we can see how technology has already led to the breaking down of morality and open rebellion against Godly principles that while not totally adhered to by this nation, has been a hedge against all out wickedness. Our attempt to at least guide our behavior with the precepts of holiness and godliness has allowed the American nation to receive blessings of wealth and freedom from the Most high. That is now changing and God is slowly removing his protection from our nation.. America's power and influence whether for good or evil was given to us by God. It is He who sets up nations, and it is He who brings about their fall. What is happening to the United States today has happened before with many other kingdoms. There is no new thing under the sun. Nor was there any respect of persons given from The Most High. This nation will and is currently feeling the pains of all the other nations that has fallen before it. And just like all the other kingdoms that fell such as Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Babylon , America's blind adherence to self promotion, and narcissistic hubris has blurred her vision of her plight. America is now a weak nation, a nation that is living on so called past greatness. Militarily America relies on enormous deficit spending on technology and advanced weaponry in order to maintain its power and influence worldwide. Yet when engaged in actual combat with weaker nations America still suffers a bloody nose and a black eye. Vietnam , Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, are modern examples of America's inability to win wars outright. These wars and excursions drain the coffers of this nation and force it into deficit spending in order to maintain the false illusion of wealth and power. The scepter has been removed from America’s hand. The royal diadem no longer sits above her brow. Yet she does not perceive its removal. The once so called democratic form of government in America has now morphed into a technocratic corporate oligarchy. The gap between rich and poor is now wider here than in any industrialized nation in the world. This leads to those in power creating a culture to maintain their wealth and prevent uprising from the masses. This will lead to the use of technological advances,such as A.I. in order to quell any potential rebellions. America, your once proud land has become a nation of fornicators , whiners, complainers, abusers, murderers, and politically corrupt parasites. America’s plight can be summed up in one Phrase. ICHABOD : THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS DEPARTED.
