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Various titles on future trends.
Popular post on David Gelertner's latest article showed his book published by The Edge group, and got me interested in finding out about other books. Library search of the publisher John Brockman leads to a number of titles predicting trends of the future. This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future (short opinions) What have you changed your mind about? : today's leading minds rethink everything (short opinions) What we believe but cannot prove : today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty (short opinions) The new humanists : science at the edge (medium length essays, focus mostly on human, evolutionary and biological, mind and consciousness, man vs machine, then 1/3 on theories of universe) The next fifty years : science in the first half of the twenty-first century (medium length opinions, more interesting. on science, math, mind, moral, learning, human development and various fields of psychology, then computation, mind, DNA, etc. David Gelertner's article on information beam is interesting.) The third culture (earlier version along the lines of the "new humanist", similar types of essays, in the form of discussions) The philosopher's game : match your wits against the 100 greatest thinkers of all time (short description of philosophers, then a multiple choice of what they said) How things are : a science tool-kit for the mind My Einstein : essays by twenty-four of the world's leading thinkers on the man, his work, and his legacy The Greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years. (Short opinions.) Curious minds : how a child becomes a scientist. (Medium length stories recollected by famous scientists. Teens should read this book!) |
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