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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net´s impact on our minds and future
John Brockman (Ed.)
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Description for How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net´s impact on our minds and future
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 648. The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future. 448 pages. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PDR. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 33. Weight: 688.
The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human - in fact, it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that score. It is about thinking'.
In How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, the latest volume in Brockman's cutting-edge Edge questions series, 154 of the world's leading intellectuals - scientists, artists and creative thinkers - explore exactly what it means to think in the new age of the Internet: from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857892485
SKU
V9780857892485
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99-10
About John Brockman (Ed.)
John Brockman is a literary agent and author and the founder of the EDGE, an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 and whose motto is: 'To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have them ask each other the questions they ... Read more
Reviews for How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net´s impact on our minds and future
Peppered with insights
Andrew Pettie
Daily Telegraph
Regularly illuminating... Diverse enough to inform you about how to think about [the internet] and, more importantly, how to defend it.
Pat Kane
Independent
A genuinely thought-provoking collection of writing on a subject the future of which is only very tentatively beginning to be spied through the ... Read more
Andrew Pettie
Daily Telegraph
Regularly illuminating... Diverse enough to inform you about how to think about [the internet] and, more importantly, how to defend it.
Pat Kane
Independent
A genuinely thought-provoking collection of writing on a subject the future of which is only very tentatively beginning to be spied through the ... Read more