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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
How This Book Came About
Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
I The Physical World
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
5 The Challenge of Climate Change
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
II Information
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place
20 Encryption as a Human Right
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic
III Intelligence
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet
29 There Will Be No End of Work
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo
IV Epilogue
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void
Name Index
Subject Index
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