What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night
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- ISBN: 9780062296238 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 006229623X (pbk.)
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xxvi, 499 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2014]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The real risk factors for war / Steven Pinker -- MADness / Vernor Vinge -- We are in denial about catastrophic risks / Martin Rees -- Living without the Internet for a couple of weeks / Daniel C. Dennett -- Safe mode for the Internet / George Dyson -- The fragility of complex systems / Randolph Nesse -- A synthetic world / Seirian Sumner -- What is conscious? / Timo Hannay -- Will there be a singularity within our lifetime? / Max Tegmark -- "The singularity" : there's no there there / Bruce Sterling -- Capture / Charles Seife -- The triumph of the virtual / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The patience deficit / Nicholas G. Carr -- The teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Who's afraid of the big bad words? / Benjamin Bergen -- The contest between engineers and druids / Paul Saffo -- "Smart" / Evgeny Morozov -- The stifling of technological progress / David Pizarro -- The rise of anti-intellectualism and the end of progress / Tim O'Reilly -- Armageddon / Timothy Taylor -- Superstition / Matt Ridley -- Rats in a spherical trap / Gregory Benford -- The danger from aliens / Seth Shostak -- Augmented reality / William Poundstone -- Too much coupling / Steven Strogatz -- Homogenization of the human experience / Scott Atran -- Are we homogenizing the global view of a normal mind? / P. Murali Doraiswamy -- Social media : the more together, the more alone / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Internet drivel / David Gelernter -- Objects of desire / Sherry Turkle -- Incompetent systems / John Naughton -- Democracy is like the appendix / Dylan Evans -- The is-ought fallacy of science and morality / Michael Shermer -- What is a good life? / David Christian -- A world without growth? / Satyajit Das -- Human population, prosperity growth : one I fear, one I don't / Laurence C. Smith -- The underpopulation bomb / Kevin Kelly -- The loss of lust / Tor Nørretranders -- Not enough robots / Rodney A. Brooks ; That we won't make use of the error catastrophe threshold / William McEwan -- A fearful asymmetry : the worrying world of a would-be science / Helena Cronin -- Misplaced worries / Dan Sperber -- There is nothing to worry about, and there never was / Virginia Heffernan -- Worries on the mystery of worry / Donald D. Hoffman -- The disconnect / Barbara Strauch -- Science by (social) media / Michael I. Norton -- Unfriendly physics, monsters from the id, and self-organizing collective delusions / John Tooby -- Myths about men / Helen Fisher -- The mating wars / David M. Buss -- We don't do politics / Brian Eno -- The black hole of finance / Seth Lloyd -- The opinions of search engines / W. Daniel Hillis -- Technology-generated fascism / David Bodanis -- Magic / Neil Gershenfeld -- Data disenfranchisement / David Rowan -- Big experiments won't happen / Lisa Randall -- The nightmare scenario for fundamental physics / Peter Woit -- No surprises from the LHC : no worries for theoretical physics / Amanda Fefter -- Crisis at the foundations of physics / Steve Giddings -- The end of fundamental science? / Mario Livio -- Quantum mechanics / Lee Smolin -- One universe / Lawrence M. Krauss -- The dangerous fascination of imagination / Carlo Rovelli -- What-- me worry? / J. Craig Venter -- Our increased medical know-how / Esther Dyson -- The promise of catharsis / Andrian Kreye -- I've given up worrying / Terry Gilliam -- Our blind spots / Daniel Goleman -- The anthropocebo effect / Jennifer Jacquet -- The relative obscurity of the writing of Édouard Glissant / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The danger of inadvertently praising zygomatic arches / Robert Sapolsky -- The belief or lack of belief in free will is not a scientific matter / Howard Gardner -- Natural death / Antony Garrett Lisi -- The loss of death / Kate Jeffery -- Global graying / David Berreby -- All the T in China / Robert Kurzban -- Technology may endanger democracy / Haim Harari -- The fourth culture / Bruce Parker -- |
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