Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future / edited by J...
Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future / edited by J...
Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future / edited by John Brockman.
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New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.
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N004.678/105
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English
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xxxii, 408 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Preface: the edge question / by John Brockman -- Introduction: the dawn of entaglement / by W. Daniel Hillis -- The bookless library / Nicholas Carr -- The invisible college / Clay Shirky -- Net gain / Richard Dawkins -- Let us calculate / Frank Wilczek -- The waking dream / Kevin Kelly -- To dream...
The degradation of predictability - and knowledge / Nassim N. Taleb -- Calling you on your crap / Sean Carroll -- How I think about how I think / Lera Boroditsky -- I am not exactly a thinking person - I am a poet / Jonas Mekas -- Kayaks versus canoes / George Dyson -- The upload has begun / Sam Har...
My fingers have become part of my brain / James O'Donnell -- A mirror for the world's foibles / John Markoff -- A completely new form of sense / Terence Koh -- By changing my behavior / Seirian Sumner -- There is no new self / Nicholas A. Christakis -- I once was lost but now am found, or how to nav...
Go virtual, young man / Eric Weinstein -- My internet mind / Thomas A. Bass -- "If you have cancer, don't go on the internet" / Karl Sabbagh -- Incomprehensible visitors from the technological future / Alison Gopnik -- "Go native" / Howard Gardner -- The maximization of neoteny / Jaron Lanier -- Wis...
Pioneering insights / Neil Gershenfeld -- Thinking in the Amazon / Daniel L. Everett -- The virtualization of the universe / David Gelernter -- Information-provoked attention deficit disorder / Rodney Brooks -- Present versus future self / Brian Knutson -- I am realizing how nice people can be / Pau...
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Publisher
New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
Every 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.
Examines 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....
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Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future / edited by John Brockman.
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"Edge.org presents ideas from today's leading thinkers"--Cover.
List 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, Le...
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c2011.
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N004.678/105
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74VvDv504QNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvDv504QNZ
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0062020447
9780062020444
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004.678
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991004884079702626
