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  The Xenotext: Book 2

  Christian Bock

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  The first work of ‘living poetry’ in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia. 
  Christian Bök in Book 1 of The Xenotext outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to outlive any apocalypse, surviving until the death of the Sun itself. After more than two decades of effort, Bök has, at last, succeeded at this incredible experiment, and Book 2 of The Xenotext situates his enterprise within the deep time of the cosmos. 
  Bök rehearses some of the techniques likely to be used in the future to preserve the cultural heritage of our civilization against a potential planetary disaster (be it thermonuclear warfare or astrophysical barrage); moreover, Bök speculates that, buried within the biochemistry of Life itself, there really does exist an innate beauty, if not a hidden poetry – a literal message that we might read, if we deign to seek it.

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  Turing's Vision - How AI is...

  Pietro Perconti, Alessio Plebe

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  Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives. The rapid advancement of AI is eroding one by one all the cornerstones considered unique of human nature: language, consciousness, creativity, and moral responsibility. The book argues that the revolution we are facing is driven by Alan Turing's "vision". This vision rests on the idea that intelligence is not an intrinsic property of human beings, but is a way in which matter is functionally organized and an attribute we are naturally inclined to ascribe to certain entities. For decades we have pretended that this idea does not have the corrosive power that it actually does, perhaps more so than the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions. But now, given the achievements of new forms of computing based on deep learning and predictive coding, the most common intuitions can no longer avoid the dangerous Turing idea. 
   
  The book is intended for scholars, researchers, and listeners intrigued by the intersections across disciplines interested in understanding the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on human nature.

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  Velociraptor The: The History of...

  Editors Charles River

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  The massively popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its subsequent movie adaptations led to a huge resurgence in interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world. That interest continues to the present day, even though most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren’t actually from the Jurassic period. Triceratops, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex and the huge sauropods such as Brachiosaurus that feature in the book and movies all actually belong to the Late Cretaceous period, more than 40 million years after the end of the Jurassic. Regardless, the movie made certain kinds of dinosaurs instantly recognizable, even if associated with the wrong era. 
  	Thanks to the movie, there has been some unwitting confusion over the identity of the Velociraptor, and this confusion was due in large part to the fact the name sounds far more scary than the creature to which the name originally belonged. Moreover, the creature to which the label was applied in the novel and movie was actually a distant cousin named Deinonychus, but as the story goes, the author, Michael Crichton, thought “Velociraptor” sounded “more dramatic.” The actual Velociraptor lived not in the badlands of North America, but in the badlands of central-eastern Asia, and it was not nearly as intimidating as Deinonychus. In fact, the main species of genus Velociraptor - Velociraptor mongoliensis - was no bigger than a turkey. Thus, in a very real sense, the Velociraptor has taken on a larger-than-life reputation.

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  The Beginning of Infinity

  David Deutsch

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  This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from The Beginning of Infinity. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for readers who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work. 
  A wide-ranging meditation on knowledge, this book argues that good explanations and critical inquiry can, in principle, lead to unlimited progress. It weaves together quantum physics, computation, philosophy, morality and politics to defend a bold form of rational optimism about the human future.

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  Future Horizons in Cybersecurity...

  Jessica Green

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  The book "Future Horizons in Cybersecurity: Defensive Fortitude: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Digital Assets" is a timely resource that provides a comprehensive analysis of the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity. In a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected, this indispensable manual equips readers with the abilities and information required to safeguard their digital assets.  
  To emphasize the importance of strong cybersecurity measures, the book begins by charting cyber threats' historical development. After that, it explores how to create a robust cyber defense, going on incident response plans, cybersecurity frameworks, risk assessments, and security controls. Building a solid defense against cyberattacks requires these fundamental components. 
  Threat intelligence, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and network security are among the advanced defense techniques that are looked at. Each chapter offers practical guidance and examples from real-world situations to aid readers in understanding these sophisticated methods.  
  The book also addresses the unique challenges of cloud security in an increasingly cloud-based world. It offers compliance solutions and best practices for effectively securing cloud systems. Furthermore, the book takes a forward-looking approach by discussing emerging technologies like blockchain, IoT, AI, and quantum computing, highlighting the security risks they pose and providing proactive strategies to mitigate these risks. 
  IT administrators, cybersecurity experts, and anyone interested in digital security will find "Future Horizons in Cybersecurity" a priceless resource. It gives readers the defensive strength to protect their digital assets and keep up with the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

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  The Book on the Bookshelf

  Henry Petroski

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  From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. 
  Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn’t. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. 
   Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, when books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security. He explains how the printing press not only changed the way books were made and shelved but also increased their availability and transformed book readers into book owners and collectors. 
  In delightful digressions, Petroski lets Seneca have his say on “the evils of book collecting;” examines the famed collection of Samuel Pepys and his only three thousand titles—old discarded to make room for new; and discusses bookselling, book buying, and book collecting through the centuries. 
  This is the ultimate book on the book: how it came to be and how we have come to keep it.

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