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Culture : leading scientists explore societies, art, power, and technology / edited by John Brockman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: New York ; London : Harper Perennial, 2011Description: xix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0062023136
  • 9780062023131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.83 22
LOC classification:
  • CB430 .C88 2011
Contents:
Introduction / John Broekman -- The evolution of culture / Daniel C. Dennett -- Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? / Jared Diamond -- Art and human reality / Denis Dutton -- A big theory of culture / Brian Eno -- We are as gods and have to get good at it / Stewart Brand -- 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 -- Time to start taking the internet seriously / David Gelernter -- Indirect reciprocity, assessment hardwiring, and reputation / Karl Sigmund -- Digital Maoism: the hazards of the new online collectivism / Jaron Lanier -- On Jaron Lanier's "Digital Maoism" : an Edge conversation -- Social networks are like the eye / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The next renaissance : keynote address at the personal democracy forum / Douglas Rushkoff -- Digital power and its discontents / Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky -- Does technology evolve? / Brian Arthur -- Aristotle: the knowledge web / Daniel Hillis -- The pancake people vs. the Gödel-to-Google net / Richard Foreman and George Dyson -- The age of the informavore / Frank Schirrmacher.
Summary: "A short, cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about culture. Edited by John Brockman, with contributions by the world's leading thinkers"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction / John Broekman -- The evolution of culture / Daniel C. Dennett -- Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? / Jared Diamond -- Art and human reality / Denis Dutton -- A big theory of culture / Brian Eno -- We are as gods and have to get good at it / Stewart Brand -- 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 -- Time to start taking the internet seriously / David Gelernter -- Indirect reciprocity, assessment hardwiring, and reputation / Karl Sigmund -- Digital Maoism: the hazards of the new online collectivism / Jaron Lanier -- On Jaron Lanier's "Digital Maoism" : an Edge conversation -- Social networks are like the eye / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The next renaissance : keynote address at the personal democracy forum / Douglas Rushkoff -- Digital power and its discontents / Evgeny Morozov and Clay Shirky -- Does technology evolve? / Brian Arthur -- Aristotle: the knowledge web / Daniel Hillis -- The pancake people vs. the Gödel-to-Google net / Richard Foreman and George Dyson -- The age of the informavore / Frank Schirrmacher.

"A short, cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about culture. Edited by John Brockman, with contributions by the world's leading thinkers"-- Provided by publisher.

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