{"title":"Computers--Information Theory","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-black-swan-second-edition-the-impact-of-the-highly-improbable-with-a-new-section-on-robustness-and-fragility-1","title":"The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called \"On Robustness and Fragility.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9\/11. 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A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI and automated content production. . . . Masterful and provocative.\"--Mustafa Suleyman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Wave\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI--a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. 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