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How is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future, edited by John Brockman
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- Summary
- A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxx, 408 p.
- Contents
-
- "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 reporer, 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
- 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 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 -- Crtl + 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 sve 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 maximisation of neoteny -- Wisdom of the crowd -- Weirdness of the crowd -- The synchronization of minds -- My judgement 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 the internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood -- Immortaility -- A third replicator -- Bells and smoke -- Dare, care, and share -- Getting close -- A miracle and a curse --
- Isbn
- 9780857892461
- Label
- How is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future
- Title
- How is the Internet changing the way you think?
- Title remainder
- the net's impact on our minds and future
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by John Brockman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought
- Cataloging source
- NLE
- Dewey number
- 004.678
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Brockman, John
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Internet
- Internet
- Internet
- Thought and thinking
- Label
- How is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future, edited by John Brockman
- Contents
-
- "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 reporer, 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
- 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 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 -- Crtl + 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 sve 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 maximisation of neoteny -- Wisdom of the crowd -- Weirdness of the crowd -- The synchronization of minds -- My judgement 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 the internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood -- Immortaility -- A third replicator -- Bells and smoke -- Dare, care, and share -- Getting close -- A miracle and a curse --
- Control code
- 000048424207
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxx, 408 p.
- Isbn
- 9780857892461
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769807856
- Label
- How is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future, edited by John Brockman
- Contents
-
- "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 reporer, 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
- 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 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 -- Crtl + 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 sve 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 maximisation of neoteny -- Wisdom of the crowd -- Weirdness of the crowd -- The synchronization of minds -- My judgement 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 the internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood -- Immortaility -- A third replicator -- Bells and smoke -- Dare, care, and share -- Getting close -- A miracle and a curse --
- Control code
- 000048424207
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxx, 408 p.
- Isbn
- 9780857892461
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769807856
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