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What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things are Good and Getting Better by John Brockman
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Edge Question Series
The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinke ...Show more
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Edge Question Series
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, so ...Show more
What To Think About Machines That Think by John Brockman
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Edge Question Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trum ...Show more