Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future /
Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future /
edited by John Brockman.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.
- xxxii, 408 p. ; 21 cm.
"Edge.org presents ideas from today's leading thinkers"--Cover. "Contributors include Steven Pinker on how the mind adapts to new technologies; Nassim N. Taleb on the destruction of precise knowledge; Richard Dawkins on the consequences of infinite information; Nicholas Carr in the future of deep thought; Helen Fisher on finding love and romance thought the Net; Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger on the promise and pitfalls of the 'hive mind'; Sam Harris on the wired brain; Brian Eno on finding authenticity in a world of endless reproduction. Other thinkers include tech theorists Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, and Evgeny Morozov; founding Wired editor Kevin Kelly; Google executive Marissa Mayer; computer scientist Jaron Lanier; philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; physicists Frank Wilczek, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, and Lee Smolin; psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; geneticist George Church; novelists Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland; actor Alan Alda; artists Marina Abramović and Ai Weiwei; X Prize founder Peter H. Diamandis; science historian George Dyson; and TED Conferences curator Chris Anderson."--Cover p. [4]. 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, Lera Boroditsky, Nick Bostrom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney Brooks, David M. Buss, Jason Calacanis, William Calvin, Philip Campbell, Nicholas Carr, Sean Carroll, Leo Chalupa, Nicholas Christakis, George Church, Andy Clark, June Cohen, Tony Conrad, Douglas Coupland, James Croak, M. Csikszentmihalyi, Fiery Cushman, David Dalrymple, Richard Dawkins, Aubrey De Grey, Stanislas Dehaene, Daniel Dennett, Emanuel Derman, Keith Devlin, Peter Diamandis, Chris DiBona, Eric Drexler, Jesse Dylan, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, David Eagleman, Olafar Eliasson, Brian Eno, Juan Enriquez, Daniel Everett, Paul Ewald, Hu Fang, Christine Finn, Eric Fischl, Helen Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Richard Foreman, Fabrizo Gallanti, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Neil Gershenfeld, Ralph Gibson, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ian & Joel Gold, Nigel Goldenfeld, Alison Gopnik, April Gornik, Joshua Greene, Haim Harari, Judith Rich Harris, Sam Harris, Daniel Haun, Marc Hauser, Marti Hearst, Virginia Heffernan, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald Hoffman, Bruce Hood, Nick Isaac, Xeni Jardin, Paul Kedrosky, Kevin Kelly, Jon Kleinberg, Brian Knutson, Terence Koh, Stephen Kosslyn, Kai Krause, Andrian Kreye, Jaron Lanier, Joseph LeDoux, Andrew Lih, Seth Lloyd, Gary Marcus, Lynn Margulis, John Markoff, Marissa Mayer, Tom McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Metzinger, Geoffrey Miller, Dave Morin, Evgevny Morozov, David Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James O'Donnell, Tim O'Reilly, Gloria Origgi, Neri Oxman, Mark Pagel, Gregory Paul, Irene Pepperberg, Clifford Pickover, Stuart Pimm, Steven Pinker, Ernst Pöppel, Emily Pronin, Robert Provine, Steve Quartz, Lisa Randall, Raqs Media Collective, Martin Rees, Ed Regis, Howard Rheingold, Matt Ridley, Matthew Ritchie, Rudy Rucker, Douglas Rushkoff, Karl Sabbagh, Paul Saffo, Scott D. Sampson, Larry Sanger, Robert Sapolsky, Roger Schank, Peter Schwartz, Charles Seife, Terrence Sejnowski, Robert Shapiro, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, Barry Smith, Laurence Smith, Lee Smolin, Galia Solomonoff, Linda Stone, Seirian Sumner, Tom Standage, Victoria Stodden, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, Max Tegmark, Frank Tipler, Fred Tomaselli, John Tooby, Arnold Trehub, Sherry Turkle, Eric Weinstein, Ai Weiwei, Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmut, Eva Wisten, Richard Saul Wurman, Anton Zeilinger."--Edge.org.
the edge question / the dawn of entanglement / The bookless library / The invisible college / Net gain / Let us calculate / The waking dream / To dream the waking dream in new ways / Tweet me nice / The dazed state / What's missing here? / Power corrupts / The rediscovery of fire / The rise of social media is really a reprise / The internet and the loss of tranquility / The greatest detractor to serious thinking since television / The large information Collider, BDTs, and gravity holidays on Tuesdays / The web helps us see what isn't there / Knowledge without, focus within, people everywhere / A level playing field / Move aside, sex / Rivaling Gutenberg / The shoulders of giants / Brain candy and bad mathematics / Publications can perish / Will the great leveler destroy diversity of thought? / We have become hunter-gatherers of images and information / The human texture of information / Not at all / This is your brain on internet / The sculpting of human thought / What kind of dumb question is that? / Public dreaming / The age of (quantum) information? / Edge, A to Z (pars pro toto) / by John Brockman -- by W. Daniel Hillis -- Nicholas Carr -- Clay Shirky -- Richard Dawkins -- Frank Wilczek -- Kevin Kelly -- Richard Saul Wurman -- Ian Gold and Joel Gold -- Richard Foreman -- Matthew Ritchie -- Daniel C. Dennett -- Chris Anderson -- June Cohen -- Noga Arikha -- Leo Chalupa -- Paul Kedrosky -- Eric Drexler -- David Dalrymple -- Martin Rees -- Seth Lloyd -- John Tooby -- William Calvin -- Mark Pegel -- Robert Shapiro -- Frank J. Tipler -- Lee Smolin -- Jon Kleinberg -- Steven Pinker -- Terrence Sejnowski -- Donald Hoffman -- Andy Clark -- Thomas Metzinger -- Anton Zeilinger -- Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Preface : Introduction : The degradation of predictability - and knowledge / Calling you on your crap / How I think about how I think / I am not exactly a thinking person - I am a poet / Kayaks versus canoes / The upload has begun / Hell if I know / What I notice / It's not what you know, it's what you can find out / When I'm on the net, I start to think / The internet has become boring / The dumb butler / Finding stuff remains a challenge / Attention, crap detection, and network awareness / Information metabolism / Ctrl + click to follow link / Replacing experience with facsimile / Outsourcing the mind / A prehistorian's perspective / The fourth phase of homo sapiens / Transience is now permanence / A return to the Scarlet Letter Savanna / Take love / Internet mating strategies / Internet society / Don't ring me / A thousand hours a year / Thinking like the internet, thinking like biology / The internet makes me think in the present tense / Social prosthetic systems / Evolving a global brain / Search and emergence / Nassim N. Taleb -- Sean Carroll -- Lera Boroditsky -- Jonas Mekas -- George Dyson -- Sam Harris -- Gregory Paul -- Brian Eno -- Marissa Mayer -- Ai Weiwei -- Andrian Kreye -- Joshua Greene -- Philip Campbell -- Howard Rheingold -- Esther Dyson -- George Church -- Eric Fischl and April Gornik -- Gerd Gigerenzer -- Timothy Taylor -- Scott Atran -- Douglas Coupland -- Jesse Bering -- Helen Fisher -- David M. Buss -- Robert R. Provine -- Aubrey De Grey -- Simon Baron-Cohen -- Nigel Goldenfeld -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Stephen M. Kosslyn -- W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Rudy Rucker -- My fingers have become part of my brain / A mirror for the world's foibles / A completely new form of sense / By changing my behavior / There is no new self / I once was lost but now am found, or how to navigate in the chartroom of memory / The greatest pornographer / My sixth sense / The internet reifies a logic already there / Instant gratification / The internet as social amplifier / Navigating physical and virtual lives / Not everything or everyone in the world has a home on the internet / Ephemera and back again / What do we think about? Who gets to do the thinking? / The internet is a cultural form / Wallowing in the world of knowledge / One's guild / Trusting nothing, debate everything / Harmful one-liners, an ocean of facts, and rewired minds / What other people think / The extinction of experience / The collective nature of human intelligence / Six ways the internet may save civilization / Better neuroxing through the internet / A gift to conspirators and terrorists everywhere / The ant hill / I can make a difference because of the internet / James O'Donnell -- John Markoff -- Terence Koh -- Seirian Sumner -- Nicholas A. Christakis -- Neri Oxman -- Alun Anderson -- Albert-Laśzló Barabási -- Tom McCarthy -- Peter H. Diamandis -- David G. Myers -- Linda Stone -- Barry C. Smith -- Chris Dibona -- Evgeny Morozov -- Virginia Heffernan -- Peter Schwartz -- Steward Brand -- Jason Calacanis -- Haim Harari -- Marti Hearst -- Scott D. Sampson -- Matt Ridley -- David eagleman -- Samuel Barondes -- Marcel Kinsbourne -- Eva Wisten -- Bruce Hood -- Go virtual, young man / My internet mind / "If you have cancer, don't go on the internet" / Incomprehensible visitors from the technological future / "Go native" / The maximization of neoteny / Wisdom of the crowd / Weirdness of the crowd / The synchronization of minds / My judgment enhancer / Speed plus mobs / Repetition, availability, and truth / The armed truce / More efficient, but to what end? / I have outsourced my memory / The new balance : more processing, less memorization / The enemy of insight? / The joy of just-enoughness / The rise of internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood / Immortality / A third replicator / Bells and smoke / Dare, care, and share / Getting close / A miracle and a curse / "The plural of anecdote is not data" / Collective action and the global commons / Informed, tightfisted, and synthetic / Massive collaboration / We know less about thinking than we think / An impenetrable machine / A question without an answer / Conceptual compasses for deeper generalists / Art making going rural / The cat is out of the bag / Everyone is an expert / Eric Weinstein -- Thomas A. Bass -- Karl Sabbagh -- Alison Gopnik -- Howard Gardner -- Jaron Lanier -- Keith Devlin -- Robert Sapolsky -- Jamshed Bharucha -- Geoffrey Miller -- Alan Alda -- Daniel Haun -- Irene M. Pepperberg -- Emanuel Derman -- Charles Seife -- Fiery Cushman -- Anthony Aguirre -- Judith Rich Harris -- Clifford Pickover -- Juan Enriquez -- Susan Blackmore -- Christine Finn -- Tor Nørretranders -- Stuart Pimm -- Ed Regis -- Lisa Randall -- Giulio Boccaletti -- Laurence C. Smith -- Andrew Lih -- Steven R. Quartz -- Emily Pronin -- Tony Conrad -- Paul W. Ewald -- James Croak -- Max Tegmark -- Roger Schank -- Pioneering insights / Thinking in the Amazon / The virtualization of the universe / Information-provoked attention deficit disorder / Present versus future self / I am realizing how nice people can be / My perception of time / The rotating problem, or how I learned to accelerate my mental clock / I must confess to being perplexed / Taking on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic / Thinking as therapy in a world of too much / Internet is wind / Of knowledge, content, place, and space / The power of conversation / A real-time perpetual time capsule / Getting from Jack Kerouac to the pentatonic scale / A vehicle for large-scale education about the human mind / Sandbars and portages / No one is immune to the storms that shake the world / Dowsing through data / Bleat for yourself / Neil Gershenfeld -- Daniel L. Everett -- David Gelernter -- Rodney Brooks -- Brian Knutson -- Paul Bloom -- Marina Abramović -- Stanislas Dehaene -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Yochai Benkler -- Ernst Pöppel -- Stefano Boeri -- Galia Solomonoff -- Gloria Origgi -- Nick Bilton -- Jesse Dylan -- Mahzarin R. Banaji -- Tim O'Reilly -- Raqs Media Collective -- Xeni Jardin -- Larry Sanger.
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.
9780062020444 (pbk.) 0062020447 (pbk.
Internet
Internet--Aspectos sociales
Internet--Social aspects.
Thought and thinking.
Pensamiento
TK 5105.875 / I73 2011
004.67/8
"Edge.org presents ideas from today's leading thinkers"--Cover. "Contributors include Steven Pinker on how the mind adapts to new technologies; Nassim N. Taleb on the destruction of precise knowledge; Richard Dawkins on the consequences of infinite information; Nicholas Carr in the future of deep thought; Helen Fisher on finding love and romance thought the Net; Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger on the promise and pitfalls of the 'hive mind'; Sam Harris on the wired brain; Brian Eno on finding authenticity in a world of endless reproduction. Other thinkers include tech theorists Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, and Evgeny Morozov; founding Wired editor Kevin Kelly; Google executive Marissa Mayer; computer scientist Jaron Lanier; philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; physicists Frank Wilczek, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, and Lee Smolin; psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; geneticist George Church; novelists Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland; actor Alan Alda; artists Marina Abramović and Ai Weiwei; X Prize founder Peter H. Diamandis; science historian George Dyson; and TED Conferences curator Chris Anderson."--Cover p. [4]. 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, Lera Boroditsky, Nick Bostrom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney Brooks, David M. Buss, Jason Calacanis, William Calvin, Philip Campbell, Nicholas Carr, Sean Carroll, Leo Chalupa, Nicholas Christakis, George Church, Andy Clark, June Cohen, Tony Conrad, Douglas Coupland, James Croak, M. Csikszentmihalyi, Fiery Cushman, David Dalrymple, Richard Dawkins, Aubrey De Grey, Stanislas Dehaene, Daniel Dennett, Emanuel Derman, Keith Devlin, Peter Diamandis, Chris DiBona, Eric Drexler, Jesse Dylan, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, David Eagleman, Olafar Eliasson, Brian Eno, Juan Enriquez, Daniel Everett, Paul Ewald, Hu Fang, Christine Finn, Eric Fischl, Helen Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Richard Foreman, Fabrizo Gallanti, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Neil Gershenfeld, Ralph Gibson, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ian & Joel Gold, Nigel Goldenfeld, Alison Gopnik, April Gornik, Joshua Greene, Haim Harari, Judith Rich Harris, Sam Harris, Daniel Haun, Marc Hauser, Marti Hearst, Virginia Heffernan, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald Hoffman, Bruce Hood, Nick Isaac, Xeni Jardin, Paul Kedrosky, Kevin Kelly, Jon Kleinberg, Brian Knutson, Terence Koh, Stephen Kosslyn, Kai Krause, Andrian Kreye, Jaron Lanier, Joseph LeDoux, Andrew Lih, Seth Lloyd, Gary Marcus, Lynn Margulis, John Markoff, Marissa Mayer, Tom McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Metzinger, Geoffrey Miller, Dave Morin, Evgevny Morozov, David Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James O'Donnell, Tim O'Reilly, Gloria Origgi, Neri Oxman, Mark Pagel, Gregory Paul, Irene Pepperberg, Clifford Pickover, Stuart Pimm, Steven Pinker, Ernst Pöppel, Emily Pronin, Robert Provine, Steve Quartz, Lisa Randall, Raqs Media Collective, Martin Rees, Ed Regis, Howard Rheingold, Matt Ridley, Matthew Ritchie, Rudy Rucker, Douglas Rushkoff, Karl Sabbagh, Paul Saffo, Scott D. Sampson, Larry Sanger, Robert Sapolsky, Roger Schank, Peter Schwartz, Charles Seife, Terrence Sejnowski, Robert Shapiro, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, Barry Smith, Laurence Smith, Lee Smolin, Galia Solomonoff, Linda Stone, Seirian Sumner, Tom Standage, Victoria Stodden, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, Max Tegmark, Frank Tipler, Fred Tomaselli, John Tooby, Arnold Trehub, Sherry Turkle, Eric Weinstein, Ai Weiwei, Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmut, Eva Wisten, Richard Saul Wurman, Anton Zeilinger."--Edge.org.
the edge question / the dawn of entanglement / The bookless library / The invisible college / Net gain / Let us calculate / The waking dream / To dream the waking dream in new ways / Tweet me nice / The dazed state / What's missing here? / Power corrupts / The rediscovery of fire / The rise of social media is really a reprise / The internet and the loss of tranquility / The greatest detractor to serious thinking since television / The large information Collider, BDTs, and gravity holidays on Tuesdays / The web helps us see what isn't there / Knowledge without, focus within, people everywhere / A level playing field / Move aside, sex / Rivaling Gutenberg / The shoulders of giants / Brain candy and bad mathematics / Publications can perish / Will the great leveler destroy diversity of thought? / We have become hunter-gatherers of images and information / The human texture of information / Not at all / This is your brain on internet / The sculpting of human thought / What kind of dumb question is that? / Public dreaming / The age of (quantum) information? / Edge, A to Z (pars pro toto) / by John Brockman -- by W. Daniel Hillis -- Nicholas Carr -- Clay Shirky -- Richard Dawkins -- Frank Wilczek -- Kevin Kelly -- Richard Saul Wurman -- Ian Gold and Joel Gold -- Richard Foreman -- Matthew Ritchie -- Daniel C. Dennett -- Chris Anderson -- June Cohen -- Noga Arikha -- Leo Chalupa -- Paul Kedrosky -- Eric Drexler -- David Dalrymple -- Martin Rees -- Seth Lloyd -- John Tooby -- William Calvin -- Mark Pegel -- Robert Shapiro -- Frank J. Tipler -- Lee Smolin -- Jon Kleinberg -- Steven Pinker -- Terrence Sejnowski -- Donald Hoffman -- Andy Clark -- Thomas Metzinger -- Anton Zeilinger -- Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Preface : Introduction : The degradation of predictability - and knowledge / Calling you on your crap / How I think about how I think / I am not exactly a thinking person - I am a poet / Kayaks versus canoes / The upload has begun / Hell if I know / What I notice / It's not what you know, it's what you can find out / When I'm on the net, I start to think / The internet has become boring / The dumb butler / Finding stuff remains a challenge / Attention, crap detection, and network awareness / Information metabolism / Ctrl + click to follow link / Replacing experience with facsimile / Outsourcing the mind / A prehistorian's perspective / The fourth phase of homo sapiens / Transience is now permanence / A return to the Scarlet Letter Savanna / Take love / Internet mating strategies / Internet society / Don't ring me / A thousand hours a year / Thinking like the internet, thinking like biology / The internet makes me think in the present tense / Social prosthetic systems / Evolving a global brain / Search and emergence / Nassim N. Taleb -- Sean Carroll -- Lera Boroditsky -- Jonas Mekas -- George Dyson -- Sam Harris -- Gregory Paul -- Brian Eno -- Marissa Mayer -- Ai Weiwei -- Andrian Kreye -- Joshua Greene -- Philip Campbell -- Howard Rheingold -- Esther Dyson -- George Church -- Eric Fischl and April Gornik -- Gerd Gigerenzer -- Timothy Taylor -- Scott Atran -- Douglas Coupland -- Jesse Bering -- Helen Fisher -- David M. Buss -- Robert R. Provine -- Aubrey De Grey -- Simon Baron-Cohen -- Nigel Goldenfeld -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Stephen M. Kosslyn -- W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Rudy Rucker -- My fingers have become part of my brain / A mirror for the world's foibles / A completely new form of sense / By changing my behavior / There is no new self / I once was lost but now am found, or how to navigate in the chartroom of memory / The greatest pornographer / My sixth sense / The internet reifies a logic already there / Instant gratification / The internet as social amplifier / Navigating physical and virtual lives / Not everything or everyone in the world has a home on the internet / Ephemera and back again / What do we think about? Who gets to do the thinking? / The internet is a cultural form / Wallowing in the world of knowledge / One's guild / Trusting nothing, debate everything / Harmful one-liners, an ocean of facts, and rewired minds / What other people think / The extinction of experience / The collective nature of human intelligence / Six ways the internet may save civilization / Better neuroxing through the internet / A gift to conspirators and terrorists everywhere / The ant hill / I can make a difference because of the internet / James O'Donnell -- John Markoff -- Terence Koh -- Seirian Sumner -- Nicholas A. Christakis -- Neri Oxman -- Alun Anderson -- Albert-Laśzló Barabási -- Tom McCarthy -- Peter H. Diamandis -- David G. Myers -- Linda Stone -- Barry C. Smith -- Chris Dibona -- Evgeny Morozov -- Virginia Heffernan -- Peter Schwartz -- Steward Brand -- Jason Calacanis -- Haim Harari -- Marti Hearst -- Scott D. Sampson -- Matt Ridley -- David eagleman -- Samuel Barondes -- Marcel Kinsbourne -- Eva Wisten -- Bruce Hood -- Go virtual, young man / My internet mind / "If you have cancer, don't go on the internet" / Incomprehensible visitors from the technological future / "Go native" / The maximization of neoteny / Wisdom of the crowd / Weirdness of the crowd / The synchronization of minds / My judgment enhancer / Speed plus mobs / Repetition, availability, and truth / The armed truce / More efficient, but to what end? / I have outsourced my memory / The new balance : more processing, less memorization / The enemy of insight? / The joy of just-enoughness / The rise of internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood / Immortality / A third replicator / Bells and smoke / Dare, care, and share / Getting close / A miracle and a curse / "The plural of anecdote is not data" / Collective action and the global commons / Informed, tightfisted, and synthetic / Massive collaboration / We know less about thinking than we think / An impenetrable machine / A question without an answer / Conceptual compasses for deeper generalists / Art making going rural / The cat is out of the bag / Everyone is an expert / Eric Weinstein -- Thomas A. Bass -- Karl Sabbagh -- Alison Gopnik -- Howard Gardner -- Jaron Lanier -- Keith Devlin -- Robert Sapolsky -- Jamshed Bharucha -- Geoffrey Miller -- Alan Alda -- Daniel Haun -- Irene M. Pepperberg -- Emanuel Derman -- Charles Seife -- Fiery Cushman -- Anthony Aguirre -- Judith Rich Harris -- Clifford Pickover -- Juan Enriquez -- Susan Blackmore -- Christine Finn -- Tor Nørretranders -- Stuart Pimm -- Ed Regis -- Lisa Randall -- Giulio Boccaletti -- Laurence C. Smith -- Andrew Lih -- Steven R. Quartz -- Emily Pronin -- Tony Conrad -- Paul W. Ewald -- James Croak -- Max Tegmark -- Roger Schank -- Pioneering insights / Thinking in the Amazon / The virtualization of the universe / Information-provoked attention deficit disorder / Present versus future self / I am realizing how nice people can be / My perception of time / The rotating problem, or how I learned to accelerate my mental clock / I must confess to being perplexed / Taking on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic / Thinking as therapy in a world of too much / Internet is wind / Of knowledge, content, place, and space / The power of conversation / A real-time perpetual time capsule / Getting from Jack Kerouac to the pentatonic scale / A vehicle for large-scale education about the human mind / Sandbars and portages / No one is immune to the storms that shake the world / Dowsing through data / Bleat for yourself / Neil Gershenfeld -- Daniel L. Everett -- David Gelernter -- Rodney Brooks -- Brian Knutson -- Paul Bloom -- Marina Abramović -- Stanislas Dehaene -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Yochai Benkler -- Ernst Pöppel -- Stefano Boeri -- Galia Solomonoff -- Gloria Origgi -- Nick Bilton -- Jesse Dylan -- Mahzarin R. Banaji -- Tim O'Reilly -- Raqs Media Collective -- Xeni Jardin -- Larry Sanger.
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.
9780062020444 (pbk.) 0062020447 (pbk.
Internet
Internet--Aspectos sociales
Internet--Social aspects.
Thought and thinking.
Pensamiento
TK 5105.875 / I73 2011
004.67/8