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Index
Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Preface: The Edge Question The Real Risk Factors for War MADness We Are in Denial About Catastrophic Risks Living Without the Internet for a Couple of Weeks Safe Mode for the Internet The Fragility of Complex Systems A Synthetic World What is Conscious? Will There Be a Singularity Within Our Lifetime? “The Singularity”: There’s No There There Capture The Triumph of the Virtual The Patience Deficit The Teenage Brain Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Words? The Contest Between Engineers and Druids “Smart” The Stifling of Technological Progress The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism and the End of Progress Armageddon Superstition Rats in a Spherical Trap The Danger from Aliens Augmented Reality Too Much Coupling Homogenization of the Human Experience Are We Homogenizing the Global View of a Normal Mind? Social Media: The More Together, The More Alone Internet Drivel Objects of Desire Incompetent Systems Democracy Is Like the Appendix The Is-Ought Fallacy of Science and Morality What Is a Good Life? A World Without Growth? Human Population, Prosperity Growth: One I Fear, One I Don’t The Underpopulation Bomb The Loss of Lust Not Enough Robots That We Won’t Make Use of the Error Catastrophe Threshold A Fearful Asymmetry: The Worrying World of a Would-Be Science Misplaced Worries There Is Nothing to Worry About, and There Never Was Worries on the Mystery of Worry The Disconnect Science by (Social) Media Unfriendly Physics, Monsters from the Id, and Self-Organizing Collective Delusions Myths About Men The Mating Wars We Don’t Do Politics The Black Hole of Finance The Opinions of Search Engines Technology-Generated Fascism Magic Data Disenfranchisement Big Experiments Won’t Happen The Nightmare Scenario for Fundamental Physics No Surprises from the LHC: No Worries for Theoretical Physics Crisis at the Foundations of Physics The End of Fundamental Science? Quantum Mechanics One Universe The Dangerous Fascination of Imagination What—Me Worry? Our Increased Medical Know-How The Promise of Catharsis I’ve Given up Worrying Our Blind Spots The Anthropocebo Effect The Relative Obscurity of the Writings of Édouard Glissant The Danger of Inadvertently Praising Zygomatic Arches The Belief or Lack of Belief in Free Will Is Not a Scientific Matter Natural Death The Loss of Death Global Graying All the T in China Technology May Endanger Democracy The Fourth Culture Classic Social Sciences’ Failure to Understand “Modern” States Shaped by Crime Is the New Public Sphere . . . Public? Blown Opportunities The Power of Bad Incentives Science Publishing Excellence Unmitigated Arrogance The Decline of the Scientific Hero Authoritarian Submission Are We Becoming Too Connected? Stress Putting Our Anxieties to Work Science Has Not Brought Us Closer to Understanding Cancer Society’s Parlous Inability to Reason About Uncertainty The Rise in Genomic Instability Current Sequencing Strategies Ignore the Role of Microorganisms in Cancer The Failure of Genomics for Mental Disorders Exaggerated Expectations Losing Our Hands Losing Touch The Human/Nature Divide Power and the Internet Close to the Edge The Paradox of Material Progress Close Observation and Description Impact The Complex, Consequential, Not-So-Easy Decisions About Our Water Resources Children of Newton and Modernity Where Did You Get That Fact? Is Idiocracy Looming? The Disconnect Between News and Understanding Super-AIs Won’t Rule the World (Unless They Get Culture First) Posthuman Geography Being Told That Our Destiny Is Among the Stars Communities of Fate Working with Others Global Cooperation Is Failing and We Don’t Know Why The Behavior of Normal People Metaworry Morbid Anxiety The Loss of Our Collective Cognition and Awareness Worrying About Children The Death of Mathematics Should We Worry About Being Unable to Understand Everything? The Demise of the Scholar Science Is in Danger of Becoming the Enemy of Humankind Illusions of Understanding and the Loss of Intellectual Humility The End of Hardship Inoculation Internet Silos The New Age of Anxiety Does the Human Species Have the Will to Survive? Neural Data Privacy Rights Can They Read My Brain? Losing Completeness C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures and the Nature-Nurture Debate The Unavoidable Intrusion of Sociopolitical Forces into Science The Growing Gap Between the Scientific Elite and the Vast “Scientifically Challenged” Majority Present-ism Do We Understand the Dynamics of Our Emerging Global Culture? We Worry Too Much About Fictional Violence A World of Cascading Crises Who Gets to Play in the Science Ballpark An Exploding Number of New Illegal Drugs History and Contingency Unknown Unknowns Digital Tats Fast Knowledge Systematic Thinking About How We Package Our Worries Worrying About Stupid The Cultural and Cognitive Consequences of Electronics What We Learn From Firefighters: How Fat Are the Fat Tails? Lamplight Probabilities The World As We Know It Worrying—the Modern Passion The Gift of Worry Notes Index Also by John Brockman Copyright About the Publisher
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