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Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other. -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, or iris scanners and fingerprint readers – were all seen as unlikely. Today they are a reality. How then will the world react to his predictions as set out in Uncommon Sense of a networked world of distributed ignorance and sharing overcoming an old world of concentrated skill and control? To everything becoming 'Napsterised' in every dimension, where storage and processing power cost nothing, and become connected without the help of the old network companies? A world where individuals create their own networks, where laws of copyright and resale, and old business models have to be changed as giant industries are dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th Century and into the 21st? Peter Cochrane poses and answers questions, suggests solutions, and raises red flags on issues that need to be addressed. Tables, diagrams, pictures and illustrations generously support all of the text, with the most difficult aspects illustrated by simulations and other material on a CD and links to a web site with an ongoing expansion of the themes addressed.

Настоящее издание – явление удивительное, даже уникальное, во многих аспектах. Полное собрание сочинений. Автор – Эдвард Лир (1812–1888), знаменитый английский поэт и художник XIX века. Основоположник поэзии нонсенса. Отец литературного лимерика. Переводчик – Борис Архипцев, совершивший своего рода творческий подвиг, отдав работе над книгой без малого четверть века. Значительная часть текстов переведена на русский впервые. Всё, переведённое заново, выводит отечественные интерпретации Э. Лира на новый, прежде недостижимый уровень. Переводы Архипцева (ему же принадлежат и все прочие русские материалы в книге – предисловие, комментарии и т. д.) отличает редкостный сплав точности, верности автору, его замыслу и воле, с поразительной свободой изложения, лёгкостью и изяществом слога. Книга двуязычна: переводы сопровождаются авторскими текстами на языке оригинала и собственными иллюстрациями Эдварда Лира.

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense – or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?