The Power Of The Machine

Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759116917

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Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine—'industrial technomass'—as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies. Find out more about the author at the Lund University, Sweden web site.

Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759100675

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The Power of the Machine by Alf Hornborg Pdf

Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine--"industrial technomass"--as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies. Find out more about the author at the Lund University, Sweden web site.

Author : Robert Angus Buchanan
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0140170634

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The Power of the Machine by Robert Angus Buchanan Pdf

By far the most important single factor in world history has been the process of technological revolution whereby small-scale agricultural societies have been transformed into massive industrialized and urbanized communities. This development has occurred over a long period of time, but its greatest thrust has been concentrated over the last two centuries, beginning in the West, in Europe and North America, and then spreading through the rest of the world. The author systematically analyses this process, showing how increasing mastery over sources of power provided increased industrial and agricultural productivity, and created radically new methods of transport and communication. He then examines the impact of these technical achievements on society, paying special attention to the political and ecological consequences of a vastly increased world population, the facilities for rapid transport and instantaneous communication, and the possession of weapons of immense destructive force.

Author : Patrick Bangert
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128226001

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Machine Learning and Data Science in the Power Generation Industry by Patrick Bangert Pdf

Machine Learning and Data Science in the Power Generation Industry explores current best practices and quantifies the value-add in developing data-oriented computational programs in the power industry, with a particular focus on thoughtfully chosen real-world case studies. It provides a set of realistic pathways for organizations seeking to develop machine learning methods, with a discussion on data selection and curation as well as organizational implementation in terms of staffing and continuing operationalization. It articulates a body of case study–driven best practices, including renewable energy sources, the smart grid, and the finances around spot markets, and forecasting. Provides best practices on how to design and set up ML projects in power systems, including all nontechnological aspects necessary to be successful Explores implementation pathways, explaining key ML algorithms and approaches as well as the choices that must be made, how to make them, what outcomes may be expected, and how the data must be prepared for them Determines the specific data needs for the collection, processing, and operationalization of data within machine learning algorithms for power systems Accompanied by numerous supporting real-world case studies, providing practical evidence of both best practices and potential pitfalls

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sunil Kumar Saini
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Power of Artificial Intelligence Exploring Machine Learning and Neural Networks by Anonim Pdf

"The Power of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Machine Learning and Neural Networks" is a book that provides an overview of the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on machine learning and neural networks. The book explains the basic concepts and techniques of AI and how they can be applied to solve real-world problems. The book covers a wide range of topics, including supervised and unsupervised learning, neural network architectures, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and more. It also discusses the ethical and societal implications of AI, as well as the future of the field. The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to readers with a basic understanding of computer science and mathematics. It is aimed at anyone interested in learning about AI and its potential applications, including students, researchers, and professionals in fields such as data science, engineering, and computer programming.

Author : Brian Merchant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316487740

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Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant Pdf

The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work--and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today. The most pressing story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley, Seattle, or even Shenzhen. It begins two hundred years ago in rural England, when working men and women rose up en masse rather than starve at the hands of the factory owners who were using machines to erase and degrade their livelihoods. They organized guerilla raids, smashed those machines, and embarked on full-scale assaults against the wealthy machine owners. They won the support of Lord Byron, inspired Mary Shelley, and enraged the Prince Regent and his bloodthirsty government. Before it was over, much blood would be spilled--of rich and poor, of the invisible and of the powerful. This all-but-forgotten and deeply misunderstood class struggle nearly brought 19th century England to its knees. We live now in the second machine age, when similar fears that big tech is dominating our lives and machines replacing human labor run high. We worry that technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are ousting workers from factories, and artificial intelligence will soon remove drivers from cars. How will this all reshape our economy and the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in the story of our first machine age, when mechanization first came to British factories at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Intertwined with a lucid examination of our current age, the story of the Luddites, the working-class insurgency that took up arms against automation (at a time when it was punishable by death to break a machine), Blood in the Machine reaches through time and space to tell a story about how technology changed our world--and how it's already changing our future.

Author : Hubert Dreyfus,Stuart E. Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780743205511

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Mind Over Machine by Hubert Dreyfus,Stuart E. Dreyfus Pdf

Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. It's important to emphasize that he doesn't believe that AI is fundamentally impossible, only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead, he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being in the world, which would require them to have bodies more or less like ours, and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. This helps to explain the practical problems in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.

Author : Timothy L. Skvarenina
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420037067

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The Power Electronics Handbook by Timothy L. Skvarenina Pdf

Less expensive, lighter, and smaller than its electromechanical counterparts, power electronics lie at the very heart of controlling and converting electric energy, which in turn lies at the heart of making that energy useful. From household appliances to space-faring vehicles, the applications of power electronics are virtually limitless. Until now, however, the same could not be said for access to up-to-date reference books devoted to power electronics. Written by engineers for engineers, The Power Electronics Handbook covers the full range of relevant topics, from basic principles to cutting-edge applications. Compiled from contributions by an international panel of experts and full of illustrations, this is not a theoretical tome, but a practical and enlightening presentation of the usefulness and variety of technologies that encompass the field. For modern and emerging applications, power electronic devices and systems must be small, efficient, lightweight, controllable, reliable, and economical. The Power Electronics Handbook is your key to understanding those devices, incorporating them into controllable circuits, and implementing those systems into applications from virtually every area of electrical engineering.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UOM:39015007212718

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The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of power : New explorations, new worlds by Lewis Mumford Pdf

An in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times. Mumford criticizes the modern trend of technology, which emphasizes constant, unrestricted expansion, production, and replacement. He contends that these goals work against technical perfection, durability, social efficiency, and overall human satisfaction. Modern technology fails to produce lasting, quality products by using devices such as consumer credit, installment buying, non-functioning and defective designs, built-in fragility, and frequent superficial "fashion" changes. "Without constant enticement by advertising," he writes, "production would slow down and level off to normal replacement demand. Otherwise many products could reach a plateau of efficient design which would call for only minimal changes from year to year."

Author : William James Rolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Physics
ISBN : UCAL:$B306529

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Natural Philosophy ... by William James Rolfe Pdf

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281257

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE TIMES (UK), VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, AND BOOKRIOT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. “The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Author : Martin Cohen,Andrew McKillop
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137000347

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The Doomsday Machine by Martin Cohen,Andrew McKillop Pdf

Today, there are over one hundred nuclear reactors operating in our backyards, from Indian Point in New York to Diablo Canyon in California. Proponents claim that nuclear power is the only viable alternative to fossil fuels, and due to rising energy consumption and the looming threat of global warming, they are pushing for an even greater investment. Here, energy economist Andrew McKillop and social scientist Martin Cohen argue that the nuclear power dream being sold to us is pure fantasy. Debunking the multilayered myth that nuclear energy is cheap, clean, and safe, they demonstrate how landscapes are ravaged in search of the elusive yellowcake to fuel the reactors, and how energy companies and politicians rarely discuss the true costs of nuclear power plants - from the subsidies that build the infrastructure to the unspoken guarantee that the public will pick up the cleanup cost in the event of a meltdown, which can easily top $100 billion dollars.

Author : Isabel Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351517157

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God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson Pdf

The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943, Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights, limited government, and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine, she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world.Paterson sees the individual creative mind as the dynamo of history, and respect for the individual's God-given rights as the precondition for the enormous release of energy that produced the modern world. She sees capitalist institutions as the machinery through which human energy works, and government as a device properly used merely to cut off power to activities that threaten personal liberty.Paterson applies her general theory to particular issues in contemporary life, such as education, .social welfare, and the causes of economic distress. She severely criticizes all but minimal application of government, including governmental interventions that most people have long taken for granted. The God of the Machine offers a challenging perspective on the continuing, worldwide debate about the nature of freedom, the uses of power, and the prospects of human betterment.Stephen Cox's substantial introduction to The God of the Machine is a comprehensive and enlightening account of Paterson's colorful life and work. He describes The God of the Machine as "not just theory, but rhapsody, satire, diatribe, poetic narrative." Paterson's work continues to be relevant because "it exposes the moral and practical failures of collectivism, failures that are now almost universally acknowledged but are still far from universally understo

Author : Morteza Nazari-Heris,Somayeh Asadi,Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo,Moloud Abdar,Houtan Jebelli,Milad Sadat-Mohammadi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030776961

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Application of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods to Power System Problems by Morteza Nazari-Heris,Somayeh Asadi,Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo,Moloud Abdar,Houtan Jebelli,Milad Sadat-Mohammadi Pdf

This book evaluates the role of innovative machine learning and deep learning methods in dealing with power system issues, concentrating on recent developments and advances that improve planning, operation, and control of power systems. Cutting-edge case studies from around the world consider prediction, classification, clustering, and fault/event detection in power systems, providing effective and promising solutions for many novel challenges faced by power system operators. Written by leading experts, the book will be an ideal resource for researchers and engineers working in the electrical power engineering and power system planning communities, as well as students in advanced graduate-level courses.

Author : Xinya Song
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863602673

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Machine Learning Assisted Digital Twin for Event Identification in Electrical Power System by Xinya Song Pdf