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Index
Cover
Title Page
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
Also by John Brockman
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