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UNINA9910953239303321 |
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Autore |
Goertzel Ben |
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The path to posthumanity : 21st century technology and its radical implications for mind, society and reality / / Ben Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj |
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Bethesda, MD, : Academica Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (633 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Technology - Social aspects |
Technological forecasting |
Artificial intelligence |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST""; ""CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE""; ""CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1""; ""CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL""; ""CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY""; ""CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS""; ""CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY""; ""CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE""; ""CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION"" |
""CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING?""""CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISM""; ""CHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST""; ""CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES""; ""CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX"" |
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Describing the near future technologies and scientific changes that will affect human life in the next 25 years, this book covers key topics in artificial intelligence, as well as looking at computing and biotechnology. |
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UNINA9910959219903321 |
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Autore |
Bryden Alan |
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International law, politics and inhumane weapons : the effectiveness of global landmine regimes / / Alan Bryden |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-21996-X |
1-283-60640-2 |
9786613918857 |
1-136-21997-8 |
0-203-09680-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Law, conflict and international relations |
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Humanitarian law |
Land mines (International law) |
Mines (Military explosives) (International law) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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International Law, Politics and Inhumane Weapons The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 The design, implementation and effectiveness of global landmine regimes; 2 Regimes prohibiting the use in war of poison gas and dum dum bullets; 3 The emergence of the landmine regimes; 4 Implementing the landmine regimes; 5 Humanitarian demining; 6 Stockpile destruction; 7 The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines.Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body of related literature, clear understandings have not been established on the effectiveness of these international legal frameworks in meeting the challenges that prompted |
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their creation. This book seeks to address this lacuna. An analytical framework grounded in regime theory helps m |
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