LIBROS DEL AUTOR: len biel

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: len biel

  • Buckminster Fuller
    Len Biel
    Buckminster Fuller treated civilization itself as an unfinished design problem. He wanted to know whether humanity could raise living standards for everyone while continually reducing the material and energetic resources required to do it. He called the process ephemeralization-doing more with less-and spent a lifetime testing it through radical prototypes: the Dymaxion House a...
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  • Norbert Wiener
    Len Biel
    In the middle of the twentieth century, a restless mathematical prodigy named Norbert Wiener helped invent a new way of seeing the world. Out of wartime work on anti-aircraft predictors and a deep engagement with feedback, information, and control, he formulated cybernetics: the claim that the same principles governing a thermostat, a nervous system, a guided missile, and a fac...
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  • Lewis Mumford
    Len Biel
    Lewis Mumford saw the machine coming long before the rest of us.He died in 1990, never having used a smartphone, a search engine, or a social-media feed. Yet his analysis of technological civilization-its organizational logic, its power, its psychological and ecological costs-reads as if written for the age of data centers, algorithmic management, platform monopolies, and artif...
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  • THE NECESSARY POWER
    Len Biel
    Hardly any political term is as morally suspicious as power. In contemporary discourse it is almost automatically linked to oppression, hierarchy, and the corruption of freedom. Yet the absence of power can leave people just as unfree.An individual who cannot resist an attacker is not free. A society that cannot defend its borders or enforce its laws is not virtuous-it is expos...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Unconventional Warfare
    Len Biel
    Unconventional warfare is not the exception. It is the historical rule.For centuries, strategic thought, international law, and military institutions have treated symmetric state-on-state industrial war as the natural baseline of conflict. History shows the opposite. From Paleolithic raids and Scythian dispersal tactics to hybrid gray-zone campaigns, networked terrorism, cyber ...
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    39,63 €