Launchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor JohnBrockman delivers this cutting-edge master class covering everything you needto know about Culture. With original contributions by the world'sleading thinkers and scientists, including Jared Diamond, Daniel C. Dennett,Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier,Nicholas Christakis, and others, Culture offers a mind-expanding primeron a fundamental topic. Unparalleled in scope, depth, insight and quality, Edge.org's Culture is not to be missed.
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Culture
Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution
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eBook - ePub
Culture
Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution
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"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction (John Brockman)
- 1. The Evolution of Culture (Daniel C. Dennett)
- 2. Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? (Jared Diamond)
- 3. Art and Human Reality (Denis Dutton)
- 4. A Big Theory of Culture (Brian Eno)
- 5. We are as Gods and Have to Get Good at It (Stewart Brand)
- 6. Turing’s Cathedral: A Visit to Google on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of John Von Neumann’s Proposal for a Digital Computer (George Dyson)
- 7. Time to Start Taking the Internet Seriously (David Gelernter)
- 8. Indirect Reciprocity, Assessment Hardwiring, and Reputation (Karl Sigmund)
- 9. Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism (Jaron Lanier)
- 10. On Jaron Lanier’s “Digital Maoism” (An Edge Conversation)
- 11. Social Networks are Like the Eye (Nicholas A. Christakis)
- 12. The Next Renaissance: Keynote Address at the Personal Democracy Forum (Douglas Rushkoff)
- 13. Digital Power and its Discontents (Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky)
- 14. Does Technology Evolve? (W. Brian Arthur)
- 15. Aristotle: The Knowledge Web (W. Daniel Hillis)
- 16. The Pancake People vs. The Gödel-to-Google Net (Richard Foreman and George Dyson)
- 17. The Age of the Informavore (Frank Schirrmacher)
- Books by John Brockman
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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