Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future /
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : the edge question / by John Brockman
- Introduction : the dawn of entanglement / 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 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 awareness / Howard Rheingold
- Information metabolism / Esther Dyson
- Ctrl + click to follow link / George Church
- Replacing experience with facsimile / Eric Fischl and April Gornik
- Outsourcing the mind / Gerd Gigerenzer
- A prehistorian's perspective / Timothy Taylor
- The fourth phase of homo sapiens / Scott Atran
- Transience is now permanence / Douglas Coupland
- A return to the Scarlet-Letter Savanna / Jesse Bering
- Take love / Helen Fisher
- Internet mating strategies / David M. Buss
- Internet society / Robert R. Provine
- Don't ring me / Aubrey De Grey
- A thousand hours a year / Simon Baron-Cohen
- Thinking like the internet, thinking like biology / Nigel Goldenfeld
- The internet makes me think in the present tense / Douglas Rushkoff
- Social prosthetic systems / Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Evolving a global brain / W. Tecumseh Fitch
- Search and emergence / Rudy Rucker
- 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 navigate in the chartroom of memory / Neri Oxman
- The greatest pornographer / Alun Anderson
- My sixth sense / Albert-Laśzló Barabási
- The internet reifies a logic already there / Tom McCarthy
- Instant gratification / Peter H. Diamandis
- The internet as social amplifier / David G. Myers
- Navigating physical and virtual lives / Linda Stone
- Not everything or everyone in the world has a home on the internet / Barry C. Smith
- Ephemera and back again / Chris Dibona
- What do we think about? Who gets to do the thinking? / Evgeny Morozov
- The internet is a cultural form / Virginia Heffernan
- Wallowing in the world of knowledge / Peter Schwartz
- One's guild / Stewart Brand
- Trusting nothing, debate everything / Jason Calacanis
- Harmful one-liners, an ocean of facts, and rewired minds / Haim Harari
- What other people think / Marti Hearst
- The extinction of experience / Scott D. Sampson
- The collective nature of human intelligence / Matt Ridley
- Six ways the internet may save civilization / David Eagleman
- Better neuroxing through the internet / Samuel Barondes
- A gift to conspirators and terrorists everywhere / Marcel Kinsbourne
- The ant hill / Eva Wisten
- I can make a difference because of the internet / Bruce Hood
- 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
- Wisdom of the crowd / Keith Devlin
- Weirdness of the crowd / Robert Sapolsky
- The synchronization of minds / Jamshed Bharucha
- My judgment enhancer / Geoffrey Miller
- Speed plus mobs / Alan Alda
- Repetition, availability, and truth / Daniel Haun
- The armed truce / Irene M. Pepperberg
- More efficient, but to what end? / Emanuel Derman
- I have outsourced my memory / Charles Seife
- The new balance : more processing, less memorization / Fiery Cushman
- The enemy of insight? / Anthony Aguirre
- The joy of just-enoughness / Judith Rich Harris
- The rise of internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood / Clifford Pickover
- Immortality / Juan Enriquez
- A third replicator / Susan Blackmore
- Bells and smoke / Christine Finn
- Dare, care, and share / Tor Nørretranders
- Getting close / Stuart Pimm
- A miracle and a curse / Ed Regis
- "The plural of anecdote is not data" / Lisa Randall
- Collective action and the global commons / Giulio Boccaletti
- Informed, tightfisted, and synthetic / Laurence C. Smith
- Massive collaboration / Andrew Lih
- We know less about thinking than we think / Steven R. Quartz
- An impenetrable machine / Emily Pronin
- A question without an answer / Tony Conrad
- Conceptual compasses for deeper generalists / Paul W. Ewald
- Art making going rural / James Croak
- The cat is out of the bag / Max Tegmark
- Everyone is an expert / Roger Schank
- 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 / Paul Bloom
- My perception of time / Marina Abramović
- The rotating problem, or How I learned to accelerate my mental clock / Stanislas Dehaene
- I must confess to being perplexed / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Taking on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic / Yochai Benkler
- Thinking as therapy in a world of too much / Ernst Pöppel
- Internet is wind / Stefano Boeri
- Of knowledge, content, place, and space / Galia Solomonoff
- The power of conversation / Gloria Origgi
- A real-time perpetual time capsule / Nick Bilton
- Getting from Jack Kerouac to the pentatonic scale / Jesse Dylan
- A vehicle for large-scale education about the human mind / Mahzarin R. Banaji
- Sandbars and portages / Tim O'Reilly
- No one is immune to the storms that shake the world / Raqs Media Collective
- Dowsing through data / Xeni Jardin
- Bleat for yourself / Larry Sanger.