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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma

The Coming Wave Technology

THIS IS HOW AN AI sees it. QUESTION: What does the coming wave of technology mean for humanity? In the annals of human history, there are moments that stand out as turning points, where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. The discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, the harnessing of electricity—all […]

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Laser Safety (Second Edition)

Laser Safety (Second Edition)

Some technologies come along and seem to capture the world. They are everywhere. The automobile is a good example. They were around for a few years as a novelty and then with the introduction of mass production they exploded across the world. I am sure the reader can think of some examples. To me the […]

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Radio-Electronic Equipment in Civil Aviation: Construction and Maintenance

Radio-Electronic Equipment in Civil Aviation: Construction and Maintenance

Safe transportation of people and valuable cargo is the main task of civil aviation at the present time. The complexity of implementing this function in accordance with the established requirements increases sharply in conditions of constantly increasing air traffic intensity and reducing the time to make the right decision. In these conditions, it is necessary […]

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Biodegradable Polymers, Blends and Composites

Biodegradable Polymers, Blends and Composites

In developing countries, environmental contamination caused by polymeric materials has reached high levels. Fossil fuel-derived polymers are not biodegradable, and their resistance to microbial degradation causes them to be stored in the environment. Furthermore, oil prices have recently risen dramatically. Evidence like this has fueled research in biodegradable polymers (Mochizuki & Hirami, 1997). These polymers […]

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Applied Mechanics of Polymers: Properties, Processing, and Behavior

Applied Mechanics of Polymers Properties, Processing, and Behavior

Polymers are one of the primary classes of materials rivaling metals and ceramics while being an integral part of the remarkable and transformative hybrid materials of polymer matrix composites. Polymers are commonly referred to as plastics, but we ought to formalize this nomenclature since the classification of polymers is important for the fundamental understanding of […]

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The First-Time Homesteader: A complete beginner’s guide to starting and loving your new homestead

The First-Time Homesteader A complete beginners guide to starting and loving your new homestead

The desire for a homestead was born early in me. As a child, I’d been wooed by the steady rock of a horseback ride and had conceived the notion of a farm with a red barn, yard birds, and neat garden rows. It was a poetic desire, the romantic hope of a child. I didn’t […]

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The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late

The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late

This is a book about energy. For more than a hundred years, we’ve had the opportunity to pump energy out of the ground virtually for free. We’ve used that cheap fuel to build the world around us, and we’ve created amazing things, wasted valuable resources, and made a mess while we were at it. At […]

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The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything

The Metaverse And How it Will Revolutionize Everything

TECHNOLOGY FREQUENTLY PRODUCES SURPRISES that no one predicts. But the biggest and most fantastical developments are often anticipated decades in advance. In the 1930s, Vannevar Bush, then president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, began work on a hypothetical electromechanical device that would store all books, records, and communications, and mechanically link them together by […]

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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

Arbitrary Lines How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

As Americans, we take comfort in the idea that we have the right to plan our own lives. We are unique in our confidence that it is within our power to move to a better life, as so many of our ancestors did. Where other countries talk about managing stagnation and even decline, we stand […]

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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Atoms and Ashes A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Radiation—the emission or transmission of energy—comes in a variety of forms. The ionizing radiation produced by nuclear explosions and accidents carries enough energy to detach electrons from atoms and molecules. It combines electromagnetic radiation, including gamma rays and X-rays, with particle radiation, which consists of alpha and beta particles and neutrons. There are three different […]

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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Escaping Gravity My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

The Mars Science Laboratory was on track to land on the Red Planet at 10:30 p.m. PDT on August 5, 2012, after traveling over 10,000 miles per hour for 283 days. The mission—known as MSL—carried the largest, most complex and scientifically advanced spacecraft ever built to land anywhere other than Earth. The rover’s name was […]

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Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil

Fossil Future Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil

TO READERS OF THE MORAL CASE FOR FOSSIL FUELS Note: If you’ve never read my previous book on fossil fuels, I encourage you to skip this section and go straight to chapter 1. In my 2014 book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, I made the highly unusual and controversial prediction that fossil fuel use […]

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