Peter Nowak

Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology. As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially. Breakthroughs from robotics to genetics appear almost on a daily basis. It's all happening so quickly that it's hard to keep track — but recently there's been a shift. With vaccinations, in-vitro fertilization, and individual genetic therapy, we're entering a new epoch, a next step, faster and more dramatic than the shift from Australopithicines to Homo Sapiens. The technology that set us apart from our earliest selves is becoming part of the evolutionary process. Advancements in computing, robotics, nanotechnology, neurology, and genetics mean that our wildest imaginings could soon become commonplace. Peter Nowak deftly presents the potential outcomes — both exciting and frightening — of key, rapidly advancing technologies and adroitly explores both the ramifications of adopting them and what doing so will reveal about the future of our species. We've come a long way in 4 million years. Welcome to Humans 3.0.

The Upgrading of the Species

Humans 3.0

"A history of technology based on research into the histories of all three industries and including interviews with inventors, experts, academics, executives and commentators. It is also a chronicle of popular culture. From cars to high-definition televisions, from website logins to microwave popcorn and slinkies, it reveals how our everyday lives have been shaped by war, porn and fast food"--Back cover.

How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know it

Sex, Bombs and Burgers

Das Arzt-Patient-Gespräch wurde als das «Herz der Medizin» bezeichnet. Unbestritten ist die Bedeutung für die Gesundung und das Wohlbefinden der Patientinnen und Patienten, aber auch der Ärztinnen und Ärzte selbst. Wie viel wissen wir über Gesprächsverläufe und Auswirkungen des sprachlichen Handelns von Ärztinnen und Ärzten? Diese Arbeit zeigt, mit welcher Methodik vielfältige Befunde der Gesprächsforschung systematisch in einer übergreifenden Synthese zusammengeführt werden können. Das Ergebnis zeigt sich als Entwurf einer Systematik des sprachlichen Handelns von Ärztinnen und Ärzten in neun Gesprächskomponenten, die in 46 Handlungstypen entfaltet werden. Die Fülle dokumentierter Gesprächsausschnitte und systemtheoretischer Überlegungen macht das Buch zur Fundgrube für Praxis, Lehre und weiterführende Forschung.

systemtheoretische Grundlagen, qualitative Synthesemethodik und diskursanalytische Ergebnisse zum sprachlichen Handeln von Ärztinnen und Ärzten

Eine Systematik der Arzt-Patient-Interaktion

Life for early humans wasn’t easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn’t remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology. As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially. Breakthroughs from robotics to genetics appear almost on a daily basis. It’s all happening so quickly that it’s hard to keep track—but recently there’s been a shift. We used to create technology to change the world around us; now we’re using it to change ourselves. With vaccinations, in-vitro fertilization, and individual genetic therapy, we’re entering a new epoch, a next step, faster and more dramatic than the shift from Australopithicines to Homo Sapiens. The technology that set us apart from our earliest selves is becoming part of the evolutionary process. Advancements in computing, robotics, nanotechnology, neurology, and genetics mean that our wildest imaginings could soon become commonplace. Peter Nowak deftly presents the potential outcomes—both exciting and frightening—of key, rapidly advancing technologies and adroitly explores both the ramifications of adopting them and what doing so will reveal about the future of our species. We’ve come a long way in 4 million years. Welcome to Human 3.0.

Dieses Buch schlägt einen Bogen von der fernsten Vergangenheit zu den übereinstimmenden Weissagungen verschiedener Religionen über das Ende unseres Zeitalters. Es zeigt auf der Grundlage der alten Überlieferungen das Verhältnis von Gott und Göttern ("Engeln") und ihren Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Menschheit. Behandelt werden unter anderem die Weissagungen der Essener, der Bibel, des Koran, der Hindhu-Schriften, der Edda und der Budhisten zum Ende unseres Zeitalters, deren Übereinstimmung selbst den Anhängern dieser Religionen unbekannt sein dürfte. Die Deutung dieser Prophezeiungen folgt dabei keinem Dogma, sondern erklärt sie aus dem Vergleich ihrer Aussagen untereinander und mit der Wirklichkeit unserer Zeit. In Bezug auf die Essener wird darüber hinaus geklärt, wer der "Lehrer der Gerechtigkeit" war, welches Verhältnis die Essener mit den Christen verbindet und wie die Essener aktiv in deren Geschichte eingriffen. All dies ist, obwohl aus den Überlieferungen zu entnehmen, der >wissenschaftlichen Theologie

Die Vorgeschichte der Menschheit nach antiken Quellen dargestellt (umgearbeitete und erweiterte 2. Auflage)

Als die Götter Menschen waren

Meanwhile, back in the darkened alleys of a city near you... trouble is brewing. A fight breaks out. A mugger shakes down an innocent tourist. Inequality is on the rise. Enter our heroes. Dark Guardian chases off an angry drug dealer in Manhattan. Mr. Xtreme charges in and breaks up a San Diego bar brawl. T.O. Ronin hugs a homeless man on the snowy streets of Toronto. These aren’t the big-screen or comic-book heroes that have been increasingly dominating pop culture. They’re real-life superheroes: individuals who take on masked personae to fight crime and help the helpless. They don’t have superpowers, but they do try to make the world a better place. Lifelong comic-book fan and veteran journalist Peter Nowak goes to the source of this phenomenon, meeting with real-life superheroes in North America and around the world to get their stories and investigate what the movement means for the future of society. To some people, real-life superheroes may seem like quirky outliers or dangerous vigilantes but, as Nowak shows, they are also archetypes whose job is to remind us of the better part of human nature.

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