John Brockman - What Should We Be Worried About?
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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 scientific reasons, worries them—particularly scenarios that aren’t on the popular radar yet. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more—here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
Steven Pinker uncovers the real risk factors for war • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi peers into the coming virtual abyss • Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek laments our squandered opportunities to prevent global catastrophe • Seth Lloyd calculates the threat of a financial black hole • Alison Gopnik on the loss of childhood • Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why firefighters understand risk far better than economic “experts” • Matt Ridley on the alarming re-emergence of superstition • Daniel C. Dennett and george dyson ponder the impact of a major breakdown of the Internet • Jennifer Jacquet fears human-induced damage to the planet due to “the Anthropocebo Effect” • Douglas Rushkoff fears humanity is losing its soul • Nicholas Carr on the “patience deficit” • Tim O’Reilly foresees a coming new Dark Age • Scott Atran on the homogenization of human experience • Sherry Turkle explores what’s lost when kids are constantly connected • Kevin Kelly outlines the looming “underpopulation bomb” • Helen Fisher on the fate of men • Lawrence Krauss dreads what we don’t know about the universe • Susan Blackmore on the loss of manual skills • Kate Jeffery on the death of death • plus J. Craig Venter, Daniel Goleman, Virginia Heffernan, Sam Harris, Brian Eno, Martin Rees, and more.
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whooping cough, 202
Wikipedia, 164, 428
Wilczek, Frank, 257–58
Williams, George C., 19, 101
will to survive, 405
Wilson, E. O., 313
Winer, Dave, 405
wireless devices, 34
Woit, Peter, 177–79
Wood, Elisabeth, 360
Woolf, Virginia, 237
World Health Organization (WHO), 85, 233, 283
World Trade Organization (WTO), 318
World War I, 7
World War II, 1, 4–5, 73, 167, 461
World Wide Web, 280, 342. See also Internet
worry gap, 370–71
Wright, Sewall, 265–66
writing, 87, 90–92. See also journalism
Yeager, Chuck, 226
Y2K-bug, 2, 456
yoga, 284
YouTube, 171, 254, 412, 451
Zeilberger, Doron, 387–88
Zeilinger, Anton, 415–16
Zimmer, Carl, 298
zoonotic transfer, 201, 202, 210
Zoroastrianism, 81
Zweig, Stefan, 214–15, 217
zygomatic arches, 221
ALSO BY JOHN BROCKMAN
By the Late John Brockman
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Afterwords
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Digerati
About Bateson
Speculations
Doing Science
Ways of Knowing
Creativity
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years
The Next Fifty Years
The New Humanists
Curious Minds
What We Believe But Cannot Prove
My Einstein
Intelligent Thought
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
What Are You Optimistic About?
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
This Will Change Everything
Is The Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Culture
The Mind
This Will Make You Smarter
This Explains Everything
Thinking
How Things Are ( with Katinka Matson)
COPYRIGHT
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NOTES
a
“Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?” arXiv:1207.3123v2 [hep-th] 22 Aug. 2012.
b
“Human Population Grows Up,” Scientific American , September 2005.
c
“An experimental study of apparent behaviour,” Amer. J. Psychol. 13 (1944).
d
Castelli, F., Frith, C., Happé, F., Frith, U., “Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes,” Brain 125(8): 1839-49 (2002).
e
“Cognitive Capitalism: The Effect of Cognitive Ability on Wealth, As Mediated Through Scientific Achievement and Economic Freedom,” Psychol. Sci , 22:6, 754-63 (2011).
f
Susan Kruglinski, “When Even Mathematicians Don’t Understand the Math,” New York Times , May 25, 2004.
g
Techonomy Conference, Lake Tahoe, California, August 6, 2010.
h
Marcia C. Linn, et al. “Can Desirable Difficulties Overcome Deceptive Clarity in Scientific Visualizations?” in Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork , Aaron Benjamin, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2010).
i
“Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns,” Science 320, 1191 (2008).
j
“Deciphering Cortical Number Coding from Human Brain Activity Patterns,” Curr. Biol. 19, 1608-15 (2009).
k
“Inverse retinotopy: Inferring the visual content of images from brain activation patterns,” NeuroImage 33:4, 1104-16 (2006).
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