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  • Living with the Genie

    Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery

    Edición de Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser, Alan P Lightman ...
    At a time when scientific and technological breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of today's most innovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our technological future.Human ingenuity has granted us a world of unprecedented personal power -- enabling us to communicate ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

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  • This Will Change Everything

    Ideas That Will Shape the Future

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 6 - Edge Question Series
    “This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelEditor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • What Should We Be Worried About?

    Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 13 - Edge Question Series
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

    Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 4 - Edge Question Series
    The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Emergence

    The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    de Steven Johnson ...
    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • SuperCooperators

    Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

    de Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield ...
    EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature “red in tooth and claw”?Martin Nowak, one of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Culture

    Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution

    Edición de John Brockman ...
    Series series Best of Edge Series
    "Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." — Chicago Sun-Times , on This Will Change EverythingLaunchinga hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor JohnBrockman delivers this cutting-edge master class covering everything you needto know about ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Future Shock

    de Alvin Toffler ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises.“Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street JournalFuture Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Good Work

    When Excellence and Ethics Meet

    de William Damon, Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • What Are You Optimistic About?

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 5 - Edge Question Series
    The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Know This

    Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 22 - Edge Question Series
    Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of ... Leer más

    $8.49 USD

  • Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind

    Origins of the Human Social Mind

    de Mark Pagel ...
    “Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD