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A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.
The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions.
An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.
--Edward Chancellor, Reuters
Автор: Phil Parvin Название: Karl Popper ISBN: 1441185399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441185396 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Karl Popper is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the history of ideas. Elements of Popper's thought were clearly libertarian or conservative in character. His politics, however, were recognisably social democratic. His ideal of an open society was not a free market utopia, but a political community in which diverse people engaged with one another in constructive dialogue to seek political solutions to common problems. If Popper made important and enduring contributions to the libertarian and conservative traditions, it would be a mistake to uncritically label him a conservative or libertarian. Rather, Popper was a scholar who contributed to a range of different fields without being shackled to one particular perspective or approach. It is in this context that we should understand Popper's contribution to libertarian and conservative thought.
Автор: Bryan Magee Название: Popper ISBN: 0006860087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006860082 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper`s importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.
Описание: Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) is one of the most controversial and widely read philosophers of the 20th century. His influence has been enormous in the fields of epistemology, logic, metaphysics, methodology of science, the philosophy of physics and biology, political philosophy, and the social sciences, and his intellectual achievement has stimulated many scholars in a wide range of disciplines. These three volumes of previously unpublished essays, based on lectures given at the congress KARL POPPER 2002 held in Vienna to mark the centenary of Popper's birth, provide an up-to-date examination of many aspects of Popper's life and thought. Volume I discusses a variety of topics in Popper's early intellectual history, and considers also some features of his remarkable influence outside philosophy. The second part of the volume contains papers that from different political perspectives tackle problems raised by Popper's prncipal contribution to political theory, democracy and community, "The Open Society and its Enemies".
Автор: Popper, Sir Karl Название: Open society and its enemies ISBN: 1138126802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138126800 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16078.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.'
- Karl Popper, from the Preface
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.
Popper's highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity of The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it demands to be read today and in years to come.
Автор: Popper, Frank Название: From technological to virtual art ISBN: 026216230X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262162302 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9409.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An influential and respected historian of art and technology analyzes the development of immersive, interactive new media art; includes detailed looks at the work of such artists as Nam June Paik, John Maeda, and Jenny Holzer.
Raw and loony, filthy and funnygutbucket belches from Kirk Alex, author of the acclaimed and controversial LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher.
Thiscollection includes tales such as the sexually graphic and outlandishly violent ZiggyPopper at Large, about an ex-con fresh out of the joint, sitting in a dive bar in seedy East Hollywood, nursing a beer and minding his own business, when a scrawny loser walks in and parks his butt on the stool next to his and offers him cash money to shag his wife. The man even shows him a faded Polaroid of a woman tied down to a bed with nothing on but a blindfold. The bitch of it is the female in the photo resembles Ziggy's ex, the one who helped send him to prison - or is it? Ziggy's not sure, although he's intrigued enough to take the offer and find out.
Hardboiled and packing a punch of LA attitude in its gritty realism and black humor, "ZiggyPopper" shows what can happen when a man's past catches up to him. Even in the middle of a steamy sex scene.
The compilation also includes the cab stories "Don't chu want it?", Cruising for Action, and "Youshould have done what I did," as well as the seriously raunchy and absurd noir parodies starring low-rent, private dick "Choo-Choo" Buschitski, in a series of adventures entitled: Bone, My Kind of Client, Angel-the Crazy Woman, The Case of the Vengeful Vixen, et al.
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