eBook - ePub
What Are You Optimistic About?
Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
What Are You Optimistic About?
Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
Tools to learn more effectively
Saving Books
Keyword Search
Annotating Text
Listen to it instead
Information
Searchable Terms
Abu Ghraib
acute myelogenous leukemia(AML)
Ada
Adler, Jerry
African Union Summit
aging and longevity
see also immortality; life expectancy
Albright, Madeleine
Allen, Paul
Allen, Woody
al-Sadr, Muqtada
alternative life
āAmbivalent Luddite at a Technological Feast, Anā(MacCready)
Anatomy of Melancholy
Anaximander
Anderson, Alun
Anderson, Chris (curator of TED)
Anderson, Chris (of Wired)
animatronics
Anna Karenina
Anti-Oedipus (Guatarri, Deleuze)
Archimedes
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Asimov, Isaac
Augustine, Norman
autism
baby-boomers
Bacon, Francis
Banaji, Mahzarin R.
Baron-Cohen, Simon
Barondes, Samuel
Barrett, Craig
Beckett, Margaret
beliefs, unraveling
Belloc, Hilaire
Benford, Gregory
Bernal, Desmond
Berreby, David
Bezos, Jeff
Bharucha, Jamshed
Big Bang
Bingham, Roger
Bishop, Elizabeth
Blair, Tony
Blakemore, Colin
blogging
Bly, Adam
Bodanis, David
Bohr, Niels
Bohringer, Karl
Book of Miracles, A
brain:
amygdala in
enhanced powers of
maleāfemale differences in
prefrontal cortex in
zombie processesā within
see also neuroscience
Brand, Stewart
Branson, Richard
Brenner, Sydney
Brooks, Rodney
Brown, Andrew
Brownian motion
Brundtland, Gro Harlem
Buffett, Warren
Burt, Austin
Burton, Robert
Bush, George W.
Buss, David
Byars, James Lee
Cairns-Smith, Graham
Calacanis, Jason McCabe
Calvin, John
Calvin, William
Campbell, Philip
cancer
capital punishment
capitalism as force for good
see also market forces
carbon trading
personal (PCT)
Carr, Geoffrey
Carse, James, P.
Casablanca
causality
CERN
Chalupa, Leo M.
chamber of wonders(Wunderkammer)
Childrenās Machine, The (Papert)
China
Church, George
cities
Citizendium
Clark, Andy
Cleland, Carol
climate change/global warming
Personal Carbon Trading to address
see a...
Table of contents
- Preface: The Annual Edge Question
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Daniel C. Dennett
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Brian Greene
- Jared Diamond
- Steven Pinker
- John Horgan
- John McCarthy
- Sam Harris
- Chris Anderson
- Martin Rees
- Carlo Rovelli
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Andrew Brown
- Richard Dawkins
- Michael Shermer
- Clay Shirky
- J. Craig Venter
- Douglas Rushkoff
- Anton Zeilinger
- Leonard Susskind
- Geoffrey Miller
- Marcelo Gleiser
- Martin E. P. Seligman
- Freeman J. Dyson
- Jerry Adler
- Gino Segre
- Lawrence M. Krauss
- Robert Shapiro
- Frank Wilczek
- Paul Steinhardt
- Lee Smolin
- Lisa Randall
- Charles Seife
- Karl Sabbagh
- Alexander Vilenkin
- Max Tegmark
- George F. Smoot
- James O'Donnell
- Philip G. Zimbardo
- Roger Bingham
- David Berreby
- Robert Sapolsky
- Gloria Origgi
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Diane F. Halpern
- Marco Iacoboni
- Marc D. Hauser
- Jamshed Bharucha
- Nathan Myhrvold
- Brian Eno
- Andrian Kreye
- William Calvin
- Tor Norretranders
- Gregory Benford
- George Dyson
- Stephen H. Schneider
- Scott D. Sampson
- James Geary
- Brian Goodwin
- Seth Lloyd
- Colin Blakemore
- Alun Anderson
- Oliver Morton
- Gregory Cochran
- Adam Bly
- Kevin Kelly
- Stewart Brand
- Alison Gopnik
- Paul C. W. Davies
- Garniss Curtis
- Rodney Brooks
- David Buss
- Nancy Etcoff
- Helen Fisher
- Geoffrey Carr
- W. Daniel Hillis
- Ian Wilmut
- Philip Campbell
- Stuart A. Kauffman
- Jill Neimark
- Peter Schwartz
- Leo M. Chalupa
- Marvin Minsky
- George Church
- Samuel Barondes
- Andy Clark
- Terrence Sejnowski
- Jordan Pollack
- David Dalrymple
- Neil Gershenfeld
- Keith Devlin
- Alex (Sandy) Pentland
- Joichi Ito
- Larry Sanger
- Chris Anderson
- Dan Sperber
- Roger C. Schank
- Gary F. Marcus
- Sherry Turkle
- Leon Lederman
- Chris DiBona
- Daniel Goleman
- Esther Dyson
- Jason McCabe Calacanis
- Juan Enriquez
- Daniel L. Everett
- Howard Gardner
- Joel Garreau
- David Gelernter
- Steve Grand
- Mahzarin R. Banaji
- Robert Trivers
- Jonathan Haidt
- Haim Harari
- John Gottman
- Judith Rich Harris
- Roger Highfield
- Donald D. Hoffman
- Walter Isaacson
- Xeni Jardin
- Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Kai Krause
- Howard Rheingold
- Linda Stone
- Ray Kurzweil
- Timothy Taylor
- Marti Hearst
- Jaron Lanier
- Rudy Rucker
- Nicholas Humphrey
- Elizabeth F. Loftus
- Thomas Metzinger
- Pamela McCorduck
- David G. Myers
- Randolph M. Nesse
- Mark Pagel
- David Pescovitz
- Ernst Poppel
- Robert R. Provine
- Matt Ridley
- Paul Saffo
- Gerald Holton
- Barry C. Smith
- Steven Strogatz
- Marcel Kinsbourne
- Michael Wolff
- Cory Doctorow
- David Deutsch
- Beatrice Golomb
- Piet Hut
- David Bodanis
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Irene Pepperberg
- Corey S. Powell
- Searchable Terms
- Books By John Brockman
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
Frequently asked questions
Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription
No, books cannot be downloaded as external files, such as PDFs, for use outside of Perlego. However, you can download books within the Perlego app for offline reading on mobile or tablet. Learn how to download books offline
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
- Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
- Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 990+ topics, weāve got you covered! Learn about our mission
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more about Read Aloud
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS and Android devices to read anytime, anywhere ā even offline. Perfect for commutes or when youāre on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app
Yes, you can access What Are You Optimistic About? by John Brockman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Social History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.