Culture

by Brockman, John

• ISBN13: 9780062023131
• ISBN10: 0062023136
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-16
• Publisher: Perennial

Summary

"The way Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science with ones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzz any brain." -Chicago Sun-Times, on This Will Change Everything Launching a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor John Brockman delivers this cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about Culture. With original contributions by the world's leading thinkers and scientists, including Jared Diamond, Daniel C. Dennett, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Christakis, and others, Culture offers a mind-expanding primer on a fundamental topic. Unparalleled in scope, depth, insight and quality, Edge.org's Culture is not to be missed.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Evolution of Culture	p. 1
Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?	p. 27
Art and Human Reality	p. 43
A Big Theory of Culture	p. 57
We Are As Gods and Have To Get Good At It	p. 71
Turing's Cathedral: A Visit to Google on the Occasion Of the 60th Anniversary of John Von Neumann's Proposal for a Digital Computer	p. 87
Time to Start Taking The Internet Seriously	p. 97
Indirect Reciprocity, Assessment Hardwiring, and Reputation	p. 111
Digital Maoism: The Hazards of The New Online Collectivism	p. 125
On Jaron Lanier's ôDigital Maoismö An Edge Conversation	p. 143
Social Networks Are Like the Eye	p. 171
The Next Renaissance: Keynote Address at the Personal Democracy Forum	p. 191
Digital Power and its Discontents	p. 197
Does Technology Evolve?	p. 219
Aristotle: The Knowledge Web	p. 237
The Pancake People vs. The Gödel-to-Google Net	p. 255
The age of the informavore	p. 263ï
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