Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

John Brockman

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780062078551
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Industrie informatique

How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net-based world.

Contents

Dedication

Preface: The Edge Question

Introduction: The Dawn of Entanglement: W. Daniel Hillis

The Bookless Library: Nicholas Carr

The Invisible College: Clay Shirky

Net Gain: Richard Dawkins

Let Us Calculate: Frank Wilczek

The Waking Dream: Kevin Kelly

To Dream the Waking Dream in New Ways: Richard Saul Wurman

Tweet Me Nice: Ian Gold and Joel Gold

The Dazed State: Richard Foreman

What’s Missing Here?: Matthew Ritchie

Power Corrupts: Daniel C. Dennett

The Rediscovery of Fire: Chris Anderson

The Rise of Social Media Is Really a Reprise: June Cohen

The Internet and the Loss of Tranquility: Noga Arikha

The Greatest Detractor to Serious Thinking Since Television: Leo Chalupa

The Large Information Collider, BDTs, and Gravity Holidays on Tuesdays: Paul Kedrosky

The Web Helps Us See What Isn’t There: Eric Drexler

Knowledge Without, Focus Within, People Everywhere: David Dalrymple

A Level Playing Field: Martin Rees

Move Aside, Sex: Seth Lloyd

Rivaling Gutenberg: John Tooby

The Shoulders of Giants: William Calvin

Brain Candy and Bad Mathematics: Mark Pagel

Publications Can Perish: Robert Shapiro

Will the Great Leveler Destroy Diversity of Thought?: Frank J. Tipler

We Have Become Hunter-Gatherers of Images and Information: Lee Smolin

The Human Texture of Information: Jon Kleinberg

Not at All: Steven Pinker

This Is Your Brain on Internet: Terrence Sejnowski

The Sculpting of Human Thought: Donald Hoffman

What Kind of a Dumb Question Is That?: Andy Clark

Public Dreaming: Thomas Metzinger

The Age of (Quantum) Information?: Anton Zeilinger

Edge, A to Z (Pars Pro Toto): Hans Ulrich Obrist

The Degradation of Predictability—and Knowledge: Nassim N. Taleb

Calling You on Your Crap: Sean Carroll

How I Think About How I Think: Lera Boroditsky

I Am Not Exactly a Thinking Person— I Am a Poet: Jonas Mekas

Kayaks Versus Canoes: George Dyson

The Upload Has Begun: Sam Harris

Hell if I Know: Gregory Paul

What I Notice: Brian Eno

It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Can Find Out: Marissa Mayer

When I’m on the Net, I Start to Think: Ai Weiwei

The Internet Has Become Boring: Andrian Kreye

The Dumb Butler: Joshua Greene

Finding Stuff Remains a Challenge: Philip Campbell

Attention, Crap Detection, and Network A...

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface: The Edge Question
• Introduction: The Dawn of Entanglement: W. Daniel Hillis
• The Bookless Library: Nicholas Carr
• The Invisible College: Clay Shirky
• Net Gain: Richard Dawkins
• Let Us Calculate: Frank Wilczek
• The Waking Dream: Kevin Kelly
• To Dream the Waking Dream in New Ways: Richard Saul Wurman
• Tweet Me Nice: Ian Gold and Joel Gold
• The Dazed State: Richard Foreman
• What’s Missing Here?: Matthew Ritchie
• Power Corrupts: Daniel C. Dennett
• The Rediscovery of Fire: Chris Anderson
• The Rise of Social Media Is Really a Reprise: June Cohen
• The Internet and the Loss of Tranquility: Noga Arikha
• The Greatest Detractor to Serious Thinking Since Television: Leo Chalupa
• The Large Information Collider, BDTs, and Gravity Holidays on Tuesdays: Paul Kedrosky
• The Web Helps Us See What Isn’t There: Eric Drexler
• Knowledge Without, Focus Within, People Everywhere: David Dalrymple
• A Level Playing Field: Martin Rees
• Move Aside, Sex: Seth Lloyd
• Rivaling Gutenberg: John Tooby
• The Shoulders of Giants: William Calvin
• Brain Candy and Bad Mathematics: Mark Pagel
• Publications Can Perish: Robert Shapiro
• Will the Great Leveler Destroy Diversity of Thought?: Frank J. Tipler
• We Have Become Hunter-Gatherers of Images and Information: Lee Smolin
• The Human Texture of Information: Jon Kleinberg
• Not at All: Steven Pinker
• This Is Your Brain on Internet: Terrence Sejnowski
• The Sculpting of Human Thought: Donald Hoffman
• What Kind of a Dumb Question Is That?: Andy Clark
• Public Dreaming: Thomas Metzinger
• The Age of (Quantum) Information?: Anton Zeilinger
• Edge, A to Z (Pars Pro Toto): Hans Ulrich Obrist
• The Degradation of Predictability—and Knowledge: Nassim N. Taleb
• Calling You on Your Crap: Sean Carroll
• How I Think About How I Think: Lera Boroditsky
• I Am Not Exactly a Thinking Person— I Am a Poet: Jonas Mekas
• Kayaks Versus Canoes: George Dyson
• The Upload Has Begun: Sam Harris
• Hell if I Know: Gregory Paul
• What I Notice: Brian Eno
• It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Can Find Out: Marissa Mayer
• When I’m on the Net, I Start to Think: Ai Weiwei
• The Internet Has Become Boring: Andrian Kreye
• The Dumb Butler: Joshua Greene
• Finding Stuff Remains a Challenge: Philip Campbell
• Attention, Crap Detection, and Network Awareness: Howard Rheingold
• Information Metabolism: Esther Dyson
• Ctrl + Click to Follow Link: George Church
• Replacing Experience with Facsimile: Eric Fischl and April Gornik
• Outsourcing the Mind: Gerd Gigerenzer
• A Prehistorian’s Perspective: Timothy Taylor
• The Fourth Phase of Homo sapiens: Scott Atran
• Transience Is Now Permanence: Douglas Coupland
• A Return to the Scarlet-Letter Savanna: Jesse Bering
• Take Love: Helen Fisher
• Internet Mating Strategies: David M. Buss
• Internet Society: Robert R. Provine
• Don’t Ring Me: Aubrey de Grey
• A Thousand Hours a Year: Simon Baron-Cohen
• Thinking Like the Internet, Thinking Like Biology: Nigel Goldenfeld
• The Internet Makes Me Think in the Present Tense: Douglas Rushkoff
• Social Prosthetic Systems: Stephen M. Kosslyn
• Evolving a Global Brain: W. Tecumseh Fitch
• Search and Emergence: Rudy Rucker
• My Fingers Have Become Part of My Brain: James O’Donnell
• A Mirror for the World’s Foibles: John Markoff
• a completely new form of sense: Terence Koh
• By Changing My Behavior: Seirian Sumner
• There Is No New Self: Nicholas A. Christakis
• I Once Was Lost but Now Am Found, or How to Navigate in the Chartroom of Memory: Neri Oxman
• The Greatest Pornographer: Alun Anderson
• My Sixth Sense: Albert-László Barabási
• The Internet Reifies a Logic Already There: Tom McCarthy
• Instant Gratification: Peter H. Diamandis
• The Internet as Social Amplifier: David G. Myers
• Navigating Physical and Virtual Lives: Linda Stone
• Not Everything or Everyone in the World Has a Home on the Internet: Barry C. Smith
• Ephemera and Back Again: Chris DiBona
• What Do We Think About? Who Gets to Do the Thinking?: Evgeny Morozov
• The Internet Is a Cultural Form: Virginia Heffernan
• Wallowing in the World of Knowledge: Peter Schwartz
• One’s Guild: Stewart Brand
• Trust Nothing, Debate Everything: Jason Calacanis
• Harmful One-Liners, an Ocean of Facts, and Rewired Minds: Haim Harari
• What Other People Think: Marti Hearst
• The Extinction of Experience: Scott D. Sampson
• The Collective Nature of Human Intelligence: Matt Ridley
• Six Ways the Internet May Save Civilization: David Eagleman
• Better Neuroxing Through the Internet: Samuel Barondes
• A Gift to Conspirators and Terrorists Everywhere: Marcel Kinsbourne
• The Ant Hill: Eva Wisten
• I Can Make a Difference Because of the Internet: Bruce Hood
• Go Virtual, Young Man: Eric Weinstein
• My Internet Mind: Thomas A. Bass
• “If You Have Cancer, Don’t Go on the Internet”: Karl Sabbagh
• Incomprehensible Visitors from the Technological Future: Alison Gopnik
• “Go Native”: Howard Gardner
• The Maximization of Neoteny: Jaron Lanier
• Wisdom of the Crowd: Keith Devlin
• Weirdness of the Crowd: Robert Sapolsky
• The Synchronization of Minds: Jamshed Bharucha
• My Judgment Enhancer: Geoffrey Miller
• Speed Plus Mobs: Alan Alda
• Repetition, Availability, and Truth: Daniel Haun
• The Armed Truce: Irene M. Pepperberg
• More Efficient, but to What End?: Emanuel Derman
• I Have Outsourced My Memory: Charles Seife
• The New Balance: More Processing, Less Memorization: Fiery Cushman
• The Enemy of Insight?: Anthony Aguirre
• The Joy of Just-Enoughness: Judith Rich Harris
• The Rise of Internet Prosthetic Brains and Soliton Personhood: Clifford Pickover
• Immortality: Juan Enriquez
• A Third Replicator: Susan Blackmore
• Bells and Smoke: Christine Finn
• Dare, Care, and Share: Tor Nørretranders
• Getting Close: Stuart Pimm
• A Miracle and a Curse: Ed Regis
• “The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Data”: Lisa Randall
• Collective Action and the Global Commons: Giulio Boccaletti
• Informed, Tightfisted, and Synthetic: Laurence C. Smith
• Massive Collaboration: Andrew Lih
• We Know Less About Thinking Than We Think: Steven R. Quartz
• An Impenetrable Machine: Emily Pronin
• A Question Without an Answer: Tony Conrad
• Conceptual Compasses for Deeper Generalists: Paul W. Ewald
• Art Making Going Rural: James Croak
• The Cat Is Out of the Bag: Max Tegmark
• Everyone Is an Expert: Roger Schank
• Pioneering Insights: Neil Gershenfeld
• Thinking in the Amazon: Daniel L. Everett
• The Virtualization of the Universe: David Gelernter
• Information-Provoked Attention Deficit Disorder: Rodney Brooks
• Present Versus Future Self: Brian Knutson
• I Am Realizing How Nice People Can Be: Paul Bloom
• My Perception of Time: Marina Abramović
• The Rotating Problem, or How I Learned to Accelerate My Mental Clock: Stanislas Dehaene
• I Must Confess to Being Perplexed: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Taking on the Habits of the Scientist, the Investigative Reporter, and the Media Critic: Yochai Benkler
• Thinking as Therapy in a World of Too Much: Ernst Pöppel
• internet is wind: Stefano Boeri
• Of Knowledge, Content, Place, and Space: Galia Solomonoff
• The Power of Conversation: Gloria Origgi
• A Real-Time Perpetual Time Capsule: Nick Bilton
• Getting from Jack Kerouac to the Pentatonic Scale: Jesse Dylan
• A Vehicle for Large-Scale Education About the Human Mind: Mahzarin R. Banaji
• Sandbars and Portages: Tim O’Reilly
• No One Is Immune to the Storms That Shake the World: Raqs Media Collective
• Dowsing Through Data: Xeni Jardin
• Bleat for Yourself: Larry Sanger
• Acknowledgments
• Books by John Brockman
• Cover
• Copyright
• About the Publisher