Welcome to Tomorrow: a beginner's guide to technology

by Corey Preston, Shari Angel (Editor)

Overview

For newcomers to STEM fields, where to begin their education remains a challenge with little guidance. With any luck, the inquisitive person would have a mentor able to guide them down the path, for anyone else - good luck. Whether you are a student born into a technology threaded world, or have been an active professional for years, the technology vocabulary and acronyms can present a seemingly impossible educational goal. There is now a starting point in the newly released book - Welcome to Tomorrow: a beginner’s guide to technology. Addressing technology’s positive and negative impacts head on and with humor punctuated by references to popular culture. STEM students and pleasure readers alike, will gain an accessible entry point into their own journey of digital citizenship.

You, the user, command real dollar value through your attention and interactions with content across the web, this is the basis of how Facebook and Google became modern-day Goliaths. Whether you’re viewing videos, articles or memes, the truth is that advertising dollars follow you and speak loudest on the web. Understanding that is the first step on the road to digital citizenship. Embodying digital citizenship, is an ongoing effort to understand our rapidly interlocking into the worlds.

After reading the book, readers can expect a comfortable foundation with high-tech topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Reinforcing these topics are a series of 50 free flash cards using imagery and bite-sized insights into the topics at hand. True to form, the book’s content is easily understood by beginners, establishing knowledge beginning with Information Technology basics and ranging up to tech acronyms such as application program interfaces (API) and software development kits (SDK). By grasping control of our decisions, we’ll develop a strong sense of technology’s role in elevating not only our convenience, but also our humanity. By learning about and leveraging technology in our everyday lives, we make our voices heard, the next step is learning to harness our declarations to begin building a better tomorrow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998245317
Publisher:	Corey Preston
Publication date:	06/07/2017
Series:	1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introductions

Introductions Who is this book for anyway?

The More You Know! Hardware Vs. Software

Vocabulary Review - Bit The More You Know!

Digital vs. Analog Getting Around the Web

Vocabulary Review - Pixels

Ok, Maybe We Are Living in the Future. - Flying Cars

The More You Know! Democratization of Technology (or why Gutenberg was an Original Gangsta)

Concept review - Copy > Clipboard > Paste Vocabulary

Review - Server Vocabulary Review - Network

Concept Review - Coding Languages

Ok, Maybe We Are Living in the Future. Future-Forward Fashion!

The More You Know! Don’t pay for common software, it’s free on the web!

Chapter 2 - Buckling In

Cognitive Science and You

Separating Signal From Noise

Concept Review - Communities and Social Media  

The More You Know! Picking Passwords

Rendering Perception Into Focus

Chapter 3 - Artificial Intelligence in Flux

Using all Available Tools in our Toolbox

Dialing the Horizon Into Focus

First Myth - I was told this was the future, where exactly is Skynet?

Human Level AI or AGI Measuring Artificial Intelligence

Second Myth - Good thing I’ve been watching Doomsday Preppers, won’t a super intelligent computer just enslave or otherwise eradicate humans? Let’s panic!

Concept Review - Moore’s Law

Third Myth - Let’s ban the development of AI!

The More You Know! You too can do Google Fu!

Fourth Myth - AI Will think and value the same as us!

AI Tomorrow

Quantum Leaps in Computing

Quantum Computing + AI = Oracle or Toy?

Enabling Tomorrow

Chapter 4 - Big Data Fusion

Pursuit of Wisdom Yields Insight

Big Data and You

Ƀ Vs. $ - Clash of Symbols

The Internet of Things

Big Data Tomorrow

The More You Know! Brands and You

Ok, Maybe we are living in the future, 3D Printing

Enabling Tomorrow Seeking Brave Answers

Chapter 5 - What Can Go Wrong

The More You Know! Securing Your Digital House

The Strange Web We’ve Weaved

The Bedrock of the Modern Web, Advertising Websites as Creators of Content

Where Advertising Goes Wrong

Where Social Media Goes Wrong

Where Privacy Goes Wrong

Chapter 6 - What Can Go Right

The Lead up to Our ‘Great Scott!’ Moment    

Great Scott Cycle    

Technology Adoption Lifecycle    

Killer App    

Network Effects

Ensuring Everyone’s Tomorrow