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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Edge Question, by John Brockman
Introduction: The Dawn of Entanglement, by W. Daniel Hillis
The Bookless Library
The Invisible College
Net Gain
Let Us Calculate
The Waking Dream
To Dream the Waking Dream in New Ways
Tweet Me Nice
The Dazed State
What’s Missing Here?
Power Corrupts
The Rediscovery of Fire
The Rise of Social Media Is Really a Reprise
The Internet and the Loss of Tranquility
The Greatest Detractor to Serious Thinking Since Television
The Large Information Collider, BDTs, and Gravity Holidays on Tuesdays
The Web Helps Us See What Isn’t There
Knowledge Without, Focus Within, People Everywhere
A Level Playing Field
Move Aside, Sex
Rivaling Gutenberg
The Shoulders of Giants
Brain Candy and Bad Mathematics
Publications Can Perish
Will the Great Leveler Destroy Diversity of Thought?
We Have Become Hunter-Gatherers of Images and Information
The Human Texture of Information
Not at All
This Is Your Brain on Internet
The Sculpting of Human Thought
What Kind of a Dumb Question Is That?
Public Dreaming
The Age of (Quantum) Information?
Edge, A to Z (Pars Pro Toto)
The Degradation of Predictability—and Knowledge
Calling You on Your Crap
How I Think About How I Think
I Am Not Exactly a Thinking Person—I Am a Poet
Kayaks Versus Canoes
The Upload Has Begun
Hell if I Know
What I Notice
It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Can Find Out
When I’m on the Net, I Start to Think
The Internet Has Become Boring
The Dumb Butler
Finding Stuff Remains a Challenge
Attention, Crap Detection, and Network Awareness
Information Metabolism
Ctrl + Click to Follow Link
Replacing Experience with Facsimile
Outsourcing the Mind
A Prehistorian’s Perspective
The Fourth Phase of Homo sapiens
Transience Is Now Permanence
A Return to the Scarlet-Letter Savanna
Take Love
Internet Mating Strategies
Internet Society
Don’t Ring Me
A Thousand Hours a Year
Thinking Like the Internet, Thinking Like Biology
The Internet Makes Me Think in the Present Tense
Social Prosthetic Systems
Evolving a Global Brain
Search and Emergence
My Fingers Have Become Part of My Brain
A Mirror for the World’s Foibles
a completely new form of sense
By Changing My Behavior
There Is No New Self
I Once Was Lost but Now Am Found, or How to Navigate in the Chartroom of Memory
The Greatest Pornographer
My Sixth Sense
The Internet Reifies a Logic Already There
Instant Gratification
The Internet as Social Amplifier
Navigating Physical and Virtual Lives
Not Everything or Everyone in the World Has a Home on the Internet
Ephemera and Back Again
What Do We Think About? Who Gets to Do the Thinking?
The Internet Is a Cultural Form
Wallowing in the World of Knowledge
One’s Guild
Trust Nothing, Debate Everything
Harmful One-Liners, an Ocean of Facts, and Rewired Minds
What Other People Think
The Extinction of Experience
The Collective Nature of Human Intelligence
Six Ways the Internet May Save Civilization
Better Neuroxing Through the Internet
A Gift to Conspirators and Terrorists Everywhere
The Ant Hill
I Can Make a Difference Because of the Internet
Go Virtual, Young Man
My Internet Mind
“If You Have Cancer, Don’t Go on the Internet”
Incomprehensible Visitors from the Technological Future
“Go Native”
The Maximization of Neoteny
Wisdom of the Crowd
Weirdness of the Crowd
The Synchronization of Minds
My Judgment Enhancer
Speed Plus Mobs
Repetition, Availability, and Truth
The Armed Truce
More Efficient, but to What End?
I Have Outsourced My Memory
The New Balance: More Processing, Less Memorization
The Enemy of Insight?
The Joy of Just-Enoughness
The Rise of Internet Prosthetic Brains and Soliton Personhood
Immortality
A Third Replicator
Bells and Smoke
Dare, Care, and Share
Getting Close
A Miracle and a Curse
“The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Data”
Collective Action and the Global Commons
Informed, Tightfisted, and Synthetic
Massive Collaboration
We Know Less About Thinking Than We Think
An Impenetrable Machine
A Question Without an Answer
Conceptual Compasses for Deeper Generalists
Art Making Going Rural
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
Everyone Is an Expert
Pioneering Insights
Thinking in the Amazon
The Virtualization of the Universe
Information-Provoked Attention Deficit Disorder
Present Versus Future Self
I Am Realizing How Nice People Can Be
My Perception of Time
The Rotating Problem, or How I Learned to Accelerate My Mental Clock
I Must Confess to Being Perplexed
Taking on the Habits of the Scientist, the Investigative Reporter, and the Media Critic
Thinking as Therapy in a World of Too Much
internet is wind
Of Knowledge, Content, Place, and Space
The Power of Conversation
A Real-Time Perpetual Time Capsule
Getting from Jack Kerouac to the Pentatonic Scale
A Vehicle for Large-Scale Education About the Human Mind
Sandbars and Portages
No One Is Immune to the Storms That Shake the World
Dowsing Through Data
Bleat for Yourself
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