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Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life

by Jen Chillingsworth  · 19 Feb 2019

your bill, while barely noticing the difference. If you have thermostats on your radiators, set the temperature for each room that requires heating. GET A SMART METER These show you exactly how much energy you are using and how much it costs. Seeing the numbers creep up on the meter makes you

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

by Peter Frase  · 10 Mar 2015  · 121pp  · 36,908 words

rules such as two-hour limits and the like. Under the influence of this theory, the city of Los Angeles decided to implement a wireless smart-metering system called LA Express Park. Sensors are installed in the pavement below each space, and they detect the presence of cars in a given area

Ten Technologies to Save the Planet: Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future

by Chris Goodall  · 1 Jan 2010  · 297pp  · 95,518 words

French homes are fitted with meters that restrict energy consumption to this level. In Italy, almost all the customers of the main electricity company have smart meters and can reduce their bills by switching their electricity use to the times of day when prices are lowest. More advanced meters could be used

The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 6 Oct 2011  · 471pp  · 109,267 words

gas market faced a cliff edge in 2015. To secure supply and cut carbon, Ofgem said the UK should invest £200 billion by 2020 in smart meters, transmission, renewable heating, wind and nuclear. The challenge was ideological as much as practical because cutting carbon meant more state action. Liberalized gas markets simply

Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado  · 2 Feb 2018  · 571pp  · 105,054 words

through non-uniform fast Fourier transform.” Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance, IEEE Press. Todd, A. et al. (2014): “Insights from Smart Meters: The potential for peak hour savings from behavior-based programs.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Available at https://www4.eere.energy.gov/seeaction/system/files/documents

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/smart_meters.pdf. Wu, K. et al. (2013): “A big data approach to analyzing market volatility.” Algorithmic Finance. Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 241–267. Wu, L.

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

data. Enterprises often have the opportunity to collect even more information during the course of business via sensors or process monitoring such as: Log data, Smart meters, Internet-connected devices (e.g., IoT), Voice/phone, Security camera feeds, RFID, and Wireless signals. For example, XO Communications now analyzes 500 discrete customer data

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth

by Chris Goodall  · 30 Jan 2020  · 154pp  · 48,340 words

’i or the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish coast, the focus is on developing energy self-sufficiency by using advanced digital technologies, such as smart meters, to reduce dependence on energy from outside the area. Other places are beginning to notice these lessons. Many schemes now focus on trying to make

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solar panels supplies power to a home down the street, while a bakery imports from a battery in the house across the road. Buildings with smart meters record electricity usage every second and communicate the information to the LO3 network. This enables management of supply and demand and settlement of bills for

Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy

by David Sawyer  · 17 Aug 2018  · 572pp  · 94,002 words

hours): £150. Ditch cleaner (DIY: easy after the physical declutter): £80. Ditch shared office (while retaining an office facility): £65. Renegotiate utility bill (gaining a smart meter): £35. Renegotiate mobile phone bills (while upgrading to 4G): £30. Petrol (through a reduced commute and increased use of our bikes): £25. Renegotiate landline/broadband

The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All

by Chris Goodall  · 6 Jul 2016  · 271pp  · 79,367 words

or pool pumps, which are big users of electricity, or any other appliances in their home. Ninety per cent of Californian homes have so-called ‘smart’ meters that collect information on electricity usage minute by minute and send it back to utilities or companies like OhmConnect. The app looks at the pattern

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utility such as the one in Ontario know when homes are using a lot of electricity? The answer is that it will have to install smart meters for all homes. Similar devices are gradually being put in UK homes to prepare for time-of-use tariffs. These meters can be set up

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in wind power or electricity from anaerobic digestion plants to fill the gap. All this is handled automatically via its central software platform and the smart meters that tell it second by second how much power your PV system is generating and how much is actually being used in the home. The

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The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 3 Mar 2020  · 279pp  · 90,888 words

, unwilling to think afresh about privatisation or its regulation. It refused to require train operators to speed up wi-fi provision or to link household smart meters with a data network. ‘Talks beset by infighting,’ reported the Financial Times, as O2, Vodafone, EE and Three tried to escape an Ofcom injunction to

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed  · 31 Aug 2021  · 168pp  · 49,067 words

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll  · 30 Apr 2012  · 944pp  · 243,883 words

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin  · 21 Jun 2023  · 248pp  · 73,689 words

22 Days in May: The birth of the Lib Dem - Conservative coalition

by Laws, David  · 22 Nov 2010  · 309pp  · 93,958 words

Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data Into Big Money

by Frank J. Ohlhorst  · 28 Nov 2012  · 133pp  · 42,254 words

Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside

by Dieter Helm  · 7 Mar 2019  · 348pp  · 102,438 words

American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness

by Dan Dimicco  · 3 Mar 2015  · 219pp  · 61,720 words

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter  · 11 Nov 2014  · 492pp  · 153,565 words

Innovation and Its Enemies

by Calestous Juma  · 20 Mar 2017

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden  · 24 Oct 2022  · 392pp  · 114,189 words

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

by Stefan Al  · 11 Apr 2022  · 300pp  · 81,293 words

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

Industrial Internet

by Jon Bruner  · 27 Mar 2013  · 49pp  · 12,968 words

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier  · 5 Mar 2013  · 304pp  · 82,395 words

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

by Eric Klinenberg  · 11 Jul 2002  · 440pp  · 128,813 words

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets

by David J. Leinweber  · 31 Dec 2008  · 402pp  · 110,972 words

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben  · 15 Apr 2019

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

by Kurt Andersen  · 4 Sep 2017  · 522pp  · 162,310 words

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

Fantasyland

by Kurt Andersen  · 5 Sep 2017

There's a War Going on but No One Can See It

by Huib Modderkolk  · 1 Sep 2021  · 295pp  · 84,843 words

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal  · 20 Jan 2011  · 470pp  · 128,328 words

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

by Meredith. Angwin  · 18 Oct 2020  · 376pp  · 101,759 words

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

by Varun Sivaram  · 2 Mar 2018  · 469pp  · 132,438 words

The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs

by Nicolas Pineault  · 6 Dec 2017

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov  · 15 Nov 2013  · 606pp  · 157,120 words

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

by Julia Angwin  · 25 Feb 2014  · 422pp  · 104,457 words

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

Demystifying Smart Cities

by Anders Lisdorf

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke  · 30 Nov 2016

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Smart Grid Standards

by Takuro Sato  · 17 Nov 2015

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

CTOs at Work

by Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson  · 13 Jan 2012  · 458pp  · 135,206 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Feb 2018  · 348pp  · 97,277 words

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right

by Philippe Legrain  · 22 Apr 2014  · 497pp  · 150,205 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value

by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen  · 30 Dec 2014  · 252pp  · 70,424 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

by Richard Watson  · 5 Nov 2013  · 219pp  · 63,495 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences

by Rob Kitchin  · 25 Aug 2014

Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing (Columbia Business School Publishing)

by John E. Kelly Iii  · 23 Sep 2013  · 118pp  · 35,663 words

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 25 Apr 2018  · 457pp  · 125,329 words

The Rare Metals War

by Guillaume Pitron  · 15 Feb 2020  · 249pp  · 66,492 words

CIOs at Work

by Ed Yourdon  · 19 Jul 2011  · 525pp  · 142,027 words

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

by Gretchen Bakke  · 25 Jul 2016  · 433pp  · 127,171 words

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre  · 18 Jan 2023

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg  · 13 Apr 2017

Data and the City

by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle  · 2 Aug 2017

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 5 Nov 2013  · 501pp  · 145,943 words

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist  · 27 Jun 2016

Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

by Thomas H. Davenport  · 4 Feb 2014

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World

by Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler  · 25 Mar 2018

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge  · 27 Feb 2018  · 267pp  · 72,552 words

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert  · 4 Jun 2018  · 244pp  · 66,977 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)

by Jamie Bartlett  · 4 Apr 2018  · 170pp  · 49,193 words

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy  · 14 Apr 2020

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe  · 3 Oct 2022  · 689pp  · 134,457 words

The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss

by Ron Adner  · 1 Mar 2012  · 265pp  · 70,788 words

Mastering Blockchain, Second Edition

by Imran Bashir  · 28 Mar 2018