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“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.” ―Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget
“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of... the Artificial State,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s
The Origins of Totalitarianism, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence, Lepore, profoundly disturbed by the technology revolution and by the soulless inundation of artificial intelligence, unfurls a new history for our own twenty-first century.
Building on an essay in
The New Yorker in 2024, Lepore’s clarion call traces our increasing dependence on and strangulation by data. Political campaigns, awash in an avalanche of fake bots, have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms, while multinational media corporations dictate public discourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to a rapid end, replaced by billionaire technocrats reliant on autocracy and the tools of AI.
With Orwellian overtones,
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State demonstrates how technology has corroded global democracy, leading to the destruction of both human community and capacity for self-government, creating a new form of AI government, a digital citizen’s assembly, where AI will recommend the course of action to humans in place of human-run legislatures. Especially sobering with this proliferation of “dizzying, ever-changing schemes, prophesies, and predictions” is that the Artificial State has come at the expense of the natural world, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
Deliberately alarming,
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, despite its abundance of dire facts, is not a funeral dirge; rather, it’s an inspiring wake-up call, written in Lepore’s typically elegiac prose, which demonstrates that nothing about the Artificial State was inevitable, for it is a “
government without consent, even government without humans.” It can, Lepore asserts, be dismantled. Other heinous systems, like feudalism, fascism, and slavery, have also been dismantled, but disassembly requires identifying the parts, tracing the sources. It requires telling a new history. This is the purpose of
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.
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Based on the award-winning Chinese title, this updated English edition presents an in-depth account of the lengthy and often contentious discussions between China and Britain regarding the Hong Kong handover. Drawing on now declassified official government documents, it provides a careful analysis of events from the 1970s to 1997, which shaped Hong Kong’s future.
當前社工教育與實務往往偏重操作技術，許多學生與同工雖熟悉操作步驟，對支撐實務的理論基礎卻未有深入了解，難以敏鋭剖析服務對象的處境。此外，現存教材多植根西方語境，若生硬套用於華人社會中，往往會引發理解偏差，進而削弱介入的專業效能。
A veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.
※本書為改版書，原書名為：《從思考到解題：數學校長訓練大學生的創意鬥智小題庫》
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香港女生aikosan年前展開了一個「瘋狂企劃」，立志遊走全港逾250 個公共屋邨，邊走邊拍攝邊了解街坊日常，開始後愈覺驚喜處處，遂創立網誌「遊走香港屋邨誌」記錄和分享香港屋邨之美。這次她嚴選21個屋邨，帶大家用猶如去旅行的心情散步其中，一邊打卡拍美照，一邊深入了解你可能忽略了的社區故事。
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旅遊之所以為旅遊，恰在於它的不可複製性。東京淺草寺的籤文握在手中時的粗糙觸感，曼谷夜市炭火烤蝦的煙熏刺痛眼睛—這些細微感受構成了旅行的血肉。虛擬現實技術再精妙，終究是隔着一層玻璃看世界，而真正的旅行需要皮膚直接接觸空氣，需要肺部吸入異鄉的塵埃。過分強調科技的萬能，就會忽視培養感受真實文化的能力。真正的文旅融合，應當是用科技為真實體驗鋪路，而非用虛擬取代真實。這本書記錄了我對這些問題的零散思考。它們好像不成體系，但都指向同一個方向：在這個科技重塑一切的時代，文旅產業的未來，取決於我們能否跳出僵化固化思維的窠臼，找到那條科技與文化的共生之道。
Meritocratic Democracy puts into dialogue contemporary works in Western democratic theory and Confucian political theory to examine the effectiveness of democracy as a decision-making system, the role of political leaders and political parties in real-world democracies. The result is a unique cross-cultural theory of democracy, meritocratic democracy, which combines democratic principles with a system of 'partisan juries' at the party level to enhance the quality of political leaders in democracy. Ultimately, this book shows that cross-cultural dialogue is imperative to generate innovative solutions to pressing political issues and foster reciprocal corrections.
香港文學百多年來不斷演化，形成了古今兼攝、中外並蓄、雅俗共賞的風格。便捷普及的專欄雜文、精緻高華的學者散文、創意不乏的現代小說、瑰奇多姿的現代詩、風雅傳承的舊體詩詞、廣受歡迎的武俠科幻言情小說，佳作傑作累累，活潑紛繁是其特色。黃維樑博士（原香港中文大學中文系教授）這本《香港文學通論》，有宏觀概述，也有微觀細賞，有高頭講章，也有輕鬆小品，還有文學交流的歡愉場景描述，希望研究者和一般讀者讀來都覺得有益也有趣。
Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies.
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Research Methods in Psychology, a text loved by instructors and students, provides the best learning experience for both future consumers and producers as they evaluate all facets of research. Award-winning author Beth Morling has thoroughly updated her groundbreaking text with fresh examples, revised ethics and statistics coverage, and a new section on qualitative methods. The new Fifth Edition is designed to support students as they practice being research consumers, learn how to produce research, and actively engage with their reading.
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From the bestselling author of MONEYLAND and BUTLER TO THE WORLD, a revelatory new anatomy of global money laundering, the crime that makes crime pay
《策略思考》無疑是我讀過最受用的書之一。葛雷格帶領讀者一步步瞭解策略思考的大小技能，引導讀者精進思考，遠離乏味與空泛的思考。──The Adept Group 總裁暨執行長保羅．歐康納（Paul O’Conner）
An in-depth anthropological study of the eating habits and culinary practices throughout Hong Kong’s rapidly shifting cultural spheres.
★ AQ逆商理論奠基之作 ★
A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research.
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