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245 0 0 _aIs the Internet changing the way you think? :
_bthe net's impact on our minds and future /
_cedited by John Brockman.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_cc2011.
300 _axxxii, 408 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"Edge.org presents ideas from today's leading thinkers"--Cover.
500 _a"Contributors include Steven Pinker on how the mind adapts to new technologies; Nassim N. Taleb on the destruction of precise knowledge; Richard Dawkins on the consequences of infinite information; Nicholas Carr in the future of deep thought; Helen Fisher on finding love and romance thought the Net; Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger on the promise and pitfalls of the 'hive mind'; Sam Harris on the wired brain; Brian Eno on finding authenticity in a world of endless reproduction. Other thinkers include tech theorists Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, and Evgeny Morozov; founding Wired editor Kevin Kelly; Google executive Marissa Mayer; computer scientist Jaron Lanier; philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; physicists Frank Wilczek, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, and Lee Smolin; psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; geneticist George Church; novelists Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland; actor Alan Alda; artists Marina Abramović and Ai Weiwei; X Prize founder Peter H. Diamandis; science historian George Dyson; and TED Conferences curator Chris Anderson."--Cover p. [4].
500 _aList of 172 essayists: "Marina Abramovic, Anthony Aguirre, Alan Alda, Alun Anderson, Chris Anderson, Noga Arikha, Scott Atran, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Albert-László Barabási, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel Barondes, Thomas A. Bass, Yochai Benkler, Jesse Bering, Jamshed Bharucha, Nick Bilton, Sue Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Giulio Boccaletti, Stefano Boeri, Lera Boroditsky, Nick Bostrom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney Brooks, David M. Buss, Jason Calacanis, William Calvin, Philip Campbell, Nicholas Carr, Sean Carroll, Leo Chalupa, Nicholas Christakis, George Church, Andy Clark, June Cohen, Tony Conrad, Douglas Coupland, James Croak, M. Csikszentmihalyi, Fiery Cushman, David Dalrymple, Richard Dawkins, Aubrey De Grey, Stanislas Dehaene, Daniel Dennett, Emanuel Derman, Keith Devlin, Peter Diamandis, Chris DiBona, Eric Drexler, Jesse Dylan, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, David Eagleman, Olafar Eliasson, Brian Eno, Juan Enriquez, Daniel Everett, Paul Ewald, Hu Fang, Christine Finn, Eric Fischl, Helen Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Richard Foreman, Fabrizo Gallanti, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Neil Gershenfeld, Ralph Gibson, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ian & Joel Gold, Nigel Goldenfeld, Alison Gopnik, April Gornik, Joshua Greene, Haim Harari, Judith Rich Harris, Sam Harris, Daniel Haun, Marc Hauser, Marti Hearst, Virginia Heffernan, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald Hoffman, Bruce Hood, Nick Isaac, Xeni Jardin, Paul Kedrosky, Kevin Kelly, Jon Kleinberg, Brian Knutson, Terence Koh, Stephen Kosslyn, Kai Krause, Andrian Kreye, Jaron Lanier, Joseph LeDoux, Andrew Lih, Seth Lloyd, Gary Marcus, Lynn Margulis, John Markoff, Marissa Mayer, Tom McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Metzinger, Geoffrey Miller, Dave Morin, Evgevny Morozov, David Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James O'Donnell, Tim O'Reilly, Gloria Origgi, Neri Oxman, Mark Pagel, Gregory Paul, Irene Pepperberg, Clifford Pickover, Stuart Pimm, Steven Pinker, Ernst Pöppel, Emily Pronin, Robert Provine, Steve Quartz, Lisa Randall, Raqs Media Collective, Martin Rees, Ed Regis, Howard Rheingold, Matt Ridley, Matthew Ritchie, Rudy Rucker, Douglas Rushkoff, Karl Sabbagh, Paul Saffo, Scott D. Sampson, Larry Sanger, Robert Sapolsky, Roger Schank, Peter Schwartz, Charles Seife, Terrence Sejnowski, Robert Shapiro, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, Barry Smith, Laurence Smith, Lee Smolin, Galia Solomonoff, Linda Stone, Seirian Sumner, Tom Standage, Victoria Stodden, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, Max Tegmark, Frank Tipler, Fred Tomaselli, John Tooby, Arnold Trehub, Sherry Turkle, Eric Weinstein, Ai Weiwei, Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmut, Eva Wisten, Richard Saul Wurman, Anton Zeilinger."--Edge.org.
505 0 0 _gPreface :
_tthe edge question /
_rby John Brockman --
_gIntroduction :
_tthe dawn of entanglement /
_rby W. Daniel Hillis --
_tThe bookless library /
_rNicholas Carr --
_tThe invisible college /
_rClay Shirky --
_tNet gain /
_rRichard Dawkins --
_tLet us calculate /
_rFrank Wilczek --
_tThe waking dream /
_rKevin Kelly --
_tTo dream the waking dream in new ways /
_rRichard Saul Wurman --
_tTweet me nice /
_rIan Gold and Joel Gold --
_tThe dazed state /
_rRichard Foreman --
_tWhat's missing here? /
_rMatthew Ritchie --
_tPower corrupts /
_rDaniel C. Dennett --
_tThe rediscovery of fire /
_rChris Anderson --
_tThe rise of social media is really a reprise /
_rJune Cohen --
_tThe internet and the loss of tranquility /
_rNoga Arikha --
_tThe greatest detractor to serious thinking since television /
_rLeo Chalupa --
_tThe large information Collider, BDTs, and gravity holidays on Tuesdays /
_rPaul Kedrosky --
_tThe web helps us see what isn't there /
_rEric Drexler --
_tKnowledge without, focus within, people everywhere /
_rDavid Dalrymple --
_tA level playing field /
_rMartin Rees --
_tMove aside, sex /
_rSeth Lloyd --
_tRivaling Gutenberg /
_rJohn Tooby --
_tThe shoulders of giants /
_rWilliam Calvin --
_tBrain candy and bad mathematics /
_rMark Pegel --
_tPublications can perish /
_rRobert Shapiro --
_tWill the great leveler destroy diversity of thought? /
_rFrank J. Tipler --
_tWe have become hunter-gatherers of images and information /
_rLee Smolin --
_tThe human texture of information /
_rJon Kleinberg --
_tNot at all /
_rSteven Pinker --
_tThis is your brain on internet /
_rTerrence Sejnowski --
_tThe sculpting of human thought /
_rDonald Hoffman --
_tWhat kind of dumb question is that? /
_rAndy Clark --
_tPublic dreaming /
_rThomas Metzinger --
_tThe age of (quantum) information? /
_rAnton Zeilinger --
_tEdge, A to Z (pars pro toto) /
_rHans Ulrich Obrist --
505 0 0 _tThe degradation of predictability - and knowledge /
_rNassim N. Taleb --
_tCalling you on your crap /
_rSean Carroll --
_tHow I think about how I think /
_rLera Boroditsky --
_tI am not exactly a thinking person - I am a poet /
_rJonas Mekas --
_tKayaks versus canoes /
_rGeorge Dyson --
_tThe upload has begun /
_rSam Harris --
_tHell if I know /
_rGregory Paul --
_tWhat I notice /
_rBrian Eno --
_tIt's not what you know, it's what you can find out /
_rMarissa Mayer --
_tWhen I'm on the net, I start to think /
_rAi Weiwei --
_tThe internet has become boring /
_rAndrian Kreye --
_tThe dumb butler /
_rJoshua Greene --
_tFinding stuff remains a challenge /
_rPhilip Campbell --
_tAttention, crap detection, and network awareness /
_rHoward Rheingold --
_tInformation metabolism /
_rEsther Dyson --
_tCtrl + click to follow link /
_rGeorge Church --
_tReplacing experience with facsimile /
_rEric Fischl and April Gornik --
_tOutsourcing the mind /
_rGerd Gigerenzer --
_tA prehistorian's perspective /
_rTimothy Taylor --
_tThe fourth phase of homo sapiens /
_rScott Atran --
_tTransience is now permanence /
_rDouglas Coupland --
_tA return to the Scarlet Letter Savanna /
_rJesse Bering --
_tTake love /
_rHelen Fisher --
_tInternet mating strategies /
_rDavid M. Buss --
_tInternet society /
_rRobert R. Provine --
_tDon't ring me /
_rAubrey De Grey --
_tA thousand hours a year /
_rSimon Baron-Cohen --
_tThinking like the internet, thinking like biology /
_rNigel Goldenfeld --
_tThe internet makes me think in the present tense /
_rDouglas Rushkoff --
_tSocial prosthetic systems /
_rStephen M. Kosslyn --
_tEvolving a global brain /
_rW. Tecumseh Fitch --
_tSearch and emergence /
_rRudy Rucker --
505 0 0 _tMy fingers have become part of my brain /
_rJames O'Donnell --
_tA mirror for the world's foibles /
_rJohn Markoff --
_tA completely new form of sense /
_rTerence Koh --
_tBy changing my behavior /
_rSeirian Sumner --
_tThere is no new self /
_rNicholas A. Christakis --
_tI once was lost but now am found, or how to navigate in the chartroom of memory /
_rNeri Oxman --
_tThe greatest pornographer /
_rAlun Anderson --
_tMy sixth sense /
_rAlbert-Laśzló Barabási --
_tThe internet reifies a logic already there /
_rTom McCarthy --
_tInstant gratification /
_rPeter H. Diamandis --
_tThe internet as social amplifier /
_rDavid G. Myers --
_tNavigating physical and virtual lives /
_rLinda Stone --
_tNot everything or everyone in the world has a home on the internet /
_rBarry C. Smith --
_tEphemera and back again /
_rChris Dibona --
_tWhat do we think about? Who gets to do the thinking? /
_rEvgeny Morozov --
_tThe internet is a cultural form /
_rVirginia Heffernan --
_tWallowing in the world of knowledge /
_rPeter Schwartz --
_tOne's guild /
_rSteward Brand --
_tTrusting nothing, debate everything /
_rJason Calacanis --
_tHarmful one-liners, an ocean of facts, and rewired minds /
_rHaim Harari --
_tWhat other people think /
_rMarti Hearst --
_tThe extinction of experience /
_rScott D. Sampson --
_tThe collective nature of human intelligence /
_rMatt Ridley --
_tSix ways the internet may save civilization /
_rDavid eagleman --
_tBetter neuroxing through the internet /
_rSamuel Barondes --
_tA gift to conspirators and terrorists everywhere /
_rMarcel Kinsbourne --
_tThe ant hill /
_rEva Wisten --
_tI can make a difference because of the internet /
_rBruce Hood --
505 0 0 _tGo virtual, young man /
_rEric Weinstein --
_tMy internet mind /
_rThomas A. Bass --
_t"If you have cancer, don't go on the internet" /
_rKarl Sabbagh --
_tIncomprehensible visitors from the technological future /
_rAlison Gopnik --
_t"Go native" /
_rHoward Gardner --
_tThe maximization of neoteny /
_rJaron Lanier --
_tWisdom of the crowd /
_rKeith Devlin --
_tWeirdness of the crowd /
_rRobert Sapolsky --
_tThe synchronization of minds /
_rJamshed Bharucha --
_tMy judgment enhancer /
_rGeoffrey Miller --
_tSpeed plus mobs /
_rAlan Alda --
_tRepetition, availability, and truth /
_rDaniel Haun --
_tThe armed truce /
_rIrene M. Pepperberg --
_tMore efficient, but to what end? /
_rEmanuel Derman --
_tI have outsourced my memory /
_rCharles Seife --
_tThe new balance :
_tmore processing, less memorization /
_rFiery Cushman --
_tThe enemy of insight? /
_rAnthony Aguirre --
_tThe joy of just-enoughness /
_rJudith Rich Harris --
_tThe rise of internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood /
_rClifford Pickover --
_tImmortality /
_rJuan Enriquez --
_tA third replicator /
_rSusan Blackmore --
_tBells and smoke /
_rChristine Finn --
_tDare, care, and share /
_rTor Nørretranders --
_tGetting close /
_rStuart Pimm --
_tA miracle and a curse /
_rEd Regis --
_t"The plural of anecdote is not data" /
_rLisa Randall --
_tCollective action and the global commons /
_rGiulio Boccaletti --
_tInformed, tightfisted, and synthetic /
_rLaurence C. Smith --
_tMassive collaboration /
_rAndrew Lih --
_tWe know less about thinking than we think /
_rSteven R. Quartz --
_tAn impenetrable machine /
_rEmily Pronin --
_tA question without an answer /
_rTony Conrad --
_tConceptual compasses for deeper generalists /
_rPaul W. Ewald --
_tArt making going rural /
_rJames Croak --
_tThe cat is out of the bag /
_rMax Tegmark --
_tEveryone is an expert /
_rRoger Schank --
505 0 0 _tPioneering insights /
_rNeil Gershenfeld --
_tThinking in the Amazon /
_rDaniel L. Everett --
_tThe virtualization of the universe /
_rDavid Gelernter --
_tInformation-provoked attention deficit disorder /
_rRodney Brooks --
_tPresent versus future self /
_rBrian Knutson --
_tI am realizing how nice people can be /
_rPaul Bloom --
_tMy perception of time /
_rMarina Abramović --
_tThe rotating problem, or how I learned to accelerate my mental clock /
_rStanislas Dehaene --
_tI must confess to being perplexed /
_rMihaly Csikszentmihalyi --
_tTaking on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic /
_rYochai Benkler --
_tThinking as therapy in a world of too much /
_rErnst Pöppel --
_tInternet is wind /
_rStefano Boeri --
_tOf knowledge, content, place, and space /
_rGalia Solomonoff --
_tThe power of conversation /
_rGloria Origgi --
_tA real-time perpetual time capsule /
_rNick Bilton --
_tGetting from Jack Kerouac to the pentatonic scale /
_rJesse Dylan --
_tA vehicle for large-scale education about the human mind /
_rMahzarin R. Banaji --
_tSandbars and portages /
_rTim O'Reilly --
_tNo one is immune to the storms that shake the world /
_rRaqs Media Collective --
_tDowsing through data /
_rXeni Jardin --
_tBleat for yourself /
_rLarry Sanger.
520 _aEvery year, Edge.org's World Question Center poses a new question to be answered by a group of luminary thinkers--philosophers, scientists, historians and the like. The 2010 question is "How is the Internet changing the way YOU think?" This book collects the responses of more than 150 of the world's most influential minds.
520 _aExamines the way the Internet has affected society and the way people think and poses the title question to various writers, author, actors, and thinkers who contribute short essays on the subject.
650 0 _aInternet.
650 0 _aInternet
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650 0 _aThought and thinking.
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650 7 _aInternet
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700 1 _aBrockman, John,
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710 2 _aEdge.org.
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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