Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

John Brockman

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Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

John Brockman

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How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net-based world.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780062078551
Subtopic
IT Industry
Contents
Dedication
Preface: The Edge Question
Introduction: The Dawn of Entanglement: 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 Waking Dream in New Ways: Richard Saul Wurman
Tweet Me Nice: Ian Gold and Joel Gold
The Dazed State: Richard Foreman
What’s Missing Here?: Matthew Ritchie
Power Corrupts: Daniel C. Dennett
The Rediscovery of Fire: Chris Anderson
The Rise of Social Media Is Really a Reprise: June Cohen
The Internet and the Loss of Tranquility: Noga Arikha
The Greatest Detractor to Serious Thinking Since Television: Leo Chalupa
The Large Information Collider, BDTs, and Gravity Holidays on Tuesdays: Paul Kedrosky
The Web Helps Us See What Isn’t There: Eric Drexler
Knowledge Without, Focus Within, People Everywhere: David Dalrymple
A Level Playing Field: Martin Rees
Move Aside, Sex: Seth Lloyd
Rivaling Gutenberg: John Tooby
The Shoulders of Giants: William Calvin
Brain Candy and Bad Mathematics: Mark Pagel
Publications Can Perish: Robert Shapiro
Will the Great Leveler Destroy Diversity of Thought?: Frank J. Tipler
We Have Become Hunter-Gatherers of Images and Information: Lee Smolin
The Human Texture of Information: Jon Kleinberg
Not at All: Steven Pinker
This Is Your Brain on Internet: Terrence Sejnowski
The Sculpting of Human Thought: Donald Hoffman
What Kind of a Dumb Question Is That?: Andy Clark
Public Dreaming: Thomas Metzinger
The Age of (Quantum) Information?: Anton Zeilinger
Edge, A to Z (Pars Pro Toto): Hans Ulrich Obrist
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 Harris
Hell if I Know: Gregory Paul
What I Notice: Brian Eno
It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Can Find Out: Marissa Mayer
When I’m on the Net, I Start to Think: Ai Weiwei
The Internet Has Become Boring: Andrian Kreye
The Dumb Butler: Joshua Greene
Finding Stuff Remains a Challenge: Philip Campbell
Attention, Crap Detection, and Network A...

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