Startup War The Battle To Control The Future
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Startup War - The battle to control the future
Under the leadership of entrepreneur Zack Porter, the rise of the content automation startup Syncranite sends shock waves through the marketing world. Young Kabir Vyas, who has climbed the ranks at WhiteLabel Media, finds his industry upended by AI. As their lives intertwine through a series of fortuitous events, the paths of these two men are set on a collision course. As a vibrant startup ecosystem emerges around him, Kabir senses numerous possibilities. A serendipitous visit to Kolkata leads to a revelation, and Kabir finds his calling. He establishes Artex — a platform designed to provide sustainable income for artists side-lined by technology. Kabir's journey intersects with a diverse set of characters. They are a unique mix: colleague and love interest, Juhi; painter, flatmate and best friend, Venkat; Venkat’s fiancée and sound engineer Shweta; Shweta's ex-boyfriend, failed journalist turned revolutionary professor, Drona; and a host of cofounder prospects. To win over a prodigious tech co-founder for Artex, Kabir must compete for the coveted title of Code Lord. Meanwhile, Zack, a prodigious coder, leaves no stone unturned in his quest to achieve Artificial General Intelligence. To secure his legacy, Zack must outshine all celebrated entrepreneurs while evading the grasp of the powerful people and institutions that control the world. Startup War delves into a world dominated and divided by technology, money, and ambition. As American and Chinese venture capital firms vie for dominance, Kabir struggles to assemble his founding team. In this high-stakes arena, India becomes a crucial battleground, and Artex is thrust into the epicentre of a global Startup War. Will Zack turn Syncranite into an unstoppable force of automation, securing his legacy and reshaping the future? Or can Kabir’s Artex, a haven for human creativity, defy the AI tide and prove that human relevance can not only survive but evolve? In this clash of ideologies, only one of them can shape the future.
Future War
An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink. A leading expert on the place of technology in war and intelligence, Robert H. Latiff, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame, has spent a career in the military researching and developing new combat technologies, observing the cost of our unquestioning embrace of innovation. At its best, advanced technology acts faster than ever to save the lives of soldiers; at its worst, the deployment of insufficiently considered new technology can have devastating unintended or long-term consequences. The question of whether we can is followed, all too infrequently, by the question of whether we should. In Future War, Latiff maps out the changing ways of war and the weapons technologies we will use to fight them, seeking to describe the ramifications of those changes and what it will mean in the future to be a soldier. He also recognizes that the fortunes of a nation are inextricably linked with its national defense, and how its citizens understand the importance of when, how, and according to what rules we fight. What will war mean to the average American? Are our leaders sufficiently sensitized to the implications of the new ways of fighting? How are the attitudes of individuals and civilian institutions shaped by the wars we fight and the means we use to fight them? And, of key importance: How will soldiers themselves think about war and their roles within it? The evolving, complex world of conflict and technology demands that we pay more attention to the issues that will confront us, before it is too late to control them. Decrying what he describes as a "broken" relationship between the military and the public it serves, Latiff issues a bold wake-up call to military planners and weapons technologists, decision makers, and the nation as a whole as we prepare for a very different future.
The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet--For Now
Wikipedia went dark on January 18, 2012. So did thousands of other websites, including search giant Google, all to protest a controversial copyright bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The protest even helped to ignite mass demonstrations on the streets of over 250 cities in all 27 countries of the European Union to stop a similar attempt to regulate the Internet under the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). This book provides a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at how people organized the largest Internet protest in history, plus the largest single-day demonstration in the streets of 27 countries of the European Union. This grassroots movement involving millions of people won an unexpected, but historic first victory in the fight for a "free and open Internet."