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Sean Gardner is a board member and V.P. of Social Media with the World Communication Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is also a global keynote speaker, business creative and digital producer who lives in the Seattle area. ... Inspire, inform and elevate social media
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The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. du Bois - 2016-07-14 (first published in 1903)
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This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human be...
Sean Gardner
2022-03-10T18:34:40.000Z
@nytimes @alexanderchee @heyitsfranklin2 @lachristensen @nytimesbooks For me it would be books like "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "Playing in the Dark" by Toni Morrison, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois, among others. Good books. Even Alvin Toffler's 1980 classic "Third Wave", which has great points about changes in the economy.      source
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - 1995-01-01 (first published in 1952)
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First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators...
Sean Gardner
2022-03-10T18:34:40.000Z
@nytimes @alexanderchee @heyitsfranklin2 @lachristensen @nytimesbooks For me it would be books like "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "Playing in the Dark" by Toni Morrison, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois, among others. Good books. Even Alvin Toffler's 1980 classic "Third Wave", which has great points about changes in the economy.      source
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Playing in the Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison - 1993-07-27 (first published in 1992)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Po...
Sean Gardner
2022-03-10T18:34:40.000Z
@nytimes @alexanderchee @heyitsfranklin2 @lachristensen @nytimesbooks For me it would be books like "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "Playing in the Dark" by Toni Morrison, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois, among others. Good books. Even Alvin Toffler's 1980 classic "Third Wave", which has great points about changes in the economy.      source
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The Third Wave
Alvin Toffler - 1980-01-01
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The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-...
Sean Gardner
2022-03-10T18:34:40.000Z
@nytimes @alexanderchee @heyitsfranklin2 @lachristensen @nytimesbooks For me it would be books like "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "Playing in the Dark" by Toni Morrison, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois, among others. Good books. Even Alvin Toffler's 1980 classic "Third Wave", which has great points about changes in the economy.      source
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis - 2020-01-28
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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of expo...
Sean Gardner
2021-04-08T21:13:06.000Z
Finished two great books this week: one about this game-changing ideas that have impacted the Web, and, the other about the emerging technologies that are shaping our future. / #books #futureofwork #dx #4IR #AI #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #Iot #iiot #nlp #innovation #tech      source
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100 Ideas that Changed the Web
Jim Boulton - 2014-08-19
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This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today.Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shakers, the book explains the origins of the Web's key techno...
Sean Gardner
2021-04-08T21:13:06.000Z
Finished two great books this week: one about this game-changing ideas that have impacted the Web, and, the other about the emerging technologies that are shaping our future. / #books #futureofwork #dx #4IR #AI #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #Iot #iiot #nlp #innovation #tech      source
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The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson - 2015-10-06 (first published in 2014)
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The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the innovations of the digital age were done co...
Sean Gardner
2019-10-01T17:41:31.000Z
@semayuce @MicrosoftUK @HelenSharmanUK @astro_timpeake @WalterIsaacson Yes, I agree: "The Innovators" is a great book. I loved it too.      source
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AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-fu Lee - 2018-09-25
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Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. I...
Sean Gardner
2019-05-25T03:36:01.000Z
Just finished “AI Super-Powers”, the massive New York Times Bestseller by AI pioneer @kaifulee. If you want to understand the #ArtificialIntelligence revolution, this is the book. After I saw @jchatterleyCNN’s interview with him, I had to read it.🤙🏽👍🏽 #iot #futureofwork #ai #dx      source
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I Cheat at Meditation
Zen in 60 Seconds
Farzana Jaffer Jeraj - 2014-01-01
Sean Gardner
2017-08-09T21:23:17.000Z
#BookLoversDay - 2 of my 2017 favorites: @SethS_D's "Everybody Lies" & @farzanajj's "I Cheat at Meditation". #bookloverday #books #bigdata      source
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Everybody Lies
Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - 2018-02-20 (first published in 2017)
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Foreword by Steven PinkerBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our worldprovided we ask the right questions.By the end of an average...
Sean Gardner
2017-06-17T17:52:31.000Z
Looking for a great #book? See @SethS_D's "Everybody Lies", a fantastic read about #BigData and the #internet. Its my favorite book of 2017!      source