How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Author(s): John Brockman (ed.)
A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought.
In How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think?, 154 of the world's leading intellectuals - scientists, artists and creative thinkers - explore exactly what it means to think in the new age of the Internet: from Nicholas Carr's reflections on what the Internet is doing to our brains, to Richard Dawkins's sanguine assessment of its long-term potential for good; and from Clay Shirky's assessment of the impact of the Internet on the dissemination and sharing of knowledge, to Ian and Joel Gold's observations on the seismic social changes it has brought about.
Editor John Brockman has assembled a world-class array of contributors, which includes (in addition to those mentioned above) Daniel C. Dennett, Martin Rees, Steven Pinker, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sean Carroll, Brian Eno, Douglas Coupland, Matt Ridley and scores of others at the epicentre of research in their respective disciplines.
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John Brockman is a literary agent and author and the founder of the EDGE, an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 and whose motto is: 'To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.' He is the author of By the Late John Brockman and The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, and is the editor of a score of books in the The EDGE Annual Question Books series.
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- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Canongate Books
- : 01 February 2012
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- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2012
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- : John Brockman (ed.)
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- : English
- : 004.678
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