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    Book Arrangement: Race to the Polar Sea has an obscurely intricate design complete with three parts, individually asunder by roughly ten chapters. Including 38 chapters may seem substantial and futile, but after having read Ken McGoogan’s thrilling, but informative, narrative recounting all the miniscule yet meaningful details of Elisha Kent Kane’s life, the reader realizes all 361 pages are eminently imperative. Part I commences with a bit of a biography over the main character in the book, Elisha

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    Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans ' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.” Technological singularity is on the verge of having a massive breakthrough but are we ready for what it brings? Raymond Kurzweil, an American author, believes that singularity will emerge in 2045. Technological singularity is an event in which artificial intelligent machines go beyond human intelligence and have the possibility to redesign themselves. Scientific

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    will our biological intelligence and environmental acumen transform as we approach the age of Singularity? Ray Kurzweil adroitly asks, “…What is the Singularity? From my perspective, the Singularity is a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so fast and far-reaching that human existence on this planet will be irreversibly

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    communication to networked communication. This movement has created a media global environment where moving from mass communicators such as TV or radio to network communicators such as mobile and the Internet. This transition is evident of a technological convergence where it has changed the way news are reported and viewed in today’s world. Where in today’s

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    Everyone has seen that kid with music blasting out of his headphones, or the girl rapidly texting on her phone. The youth of today are constantly drawn in technological advancements that promote nonstop communication and instant satisfaction, whether through cell phones, video games, laptops, or iPod/MP3 players. Before the invention of these devices, family members would sit together around the table and play

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    Technology is the distribution of intelligence that deals with the arrangement and use of industrial means and their relationship with life, society, and the environment. Since the establishment of modern technology has been entangled with it. On average a smartphone user will check their phones 150 times a day-----. And that is just how the people cooperate with their Smartphone. Technology has a large negative effect on society. Neurologists worry that if unless we wake up to the catastrophe that

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    Technology has been rapidly increasing in the 21st century. Dr. Ray Kurzweil has made successful calculations and predictions on technology advancements about the future during the 1980s. “His predictions featured the invention of small devices that may include a function to assist people who are blind, and give them the ability to read documents at anytime and location. He also predicted the rapid internet boom in the 1990s, which evidently became true.” Despite many of the new technology advancements

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    The Singularity is Near: Book Response The Singularity is Near was written by Ray Kurzweil in 2005. Kurzweil looks into the near future and confidently predicts where we, as a species, will find ourselves. The Singularity is a future period at which artificial intelligence will match and exceed the intelligence of humans, including the problem-solving skills, pattern recognition, even emotional and moral intelligence of the human brain. We will reach this point relatively soon. Kurzweil estimates

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    ONE. A. An organization is a stable, formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes to produce products. It essentially focuses on three basic elements, which are capital, labor, and production. The technical definition of organizations is more stable than an informal group, formal legal entities, and social structures. While a behavioral definition of an organization is a collection of rights, missions, and responsibilities that are balanced over a period of time

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    Introduction In humanity, as in all of life, the most successful traits in producing offspring will also become the most prevalent. There is a belief that because we no longer fight for our survival, we will no longer evolve. Evolution, however, has no goal or foresight. Though we have seized the need to fight, and have triumphed to the top of the animal food chain, we continue to change and develop by whatever is most successful for production. This could be beneficial, but could also have detrimental

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