Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
February 13, 2012
- Author:
- David Weinberger
- Published:
- Basic Books, 2012
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Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
January 20, 2012
- Author:
- Michael Hingson
- Published:
- Thomas Nelson, 2011
- Author:
- Susan Cain
- Published:
- Crown, 2012
Amazon | At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled “quiet,” it is to introverts that we…
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
January 12, 2012
- Author:
- Thomas Metzinger
- Published:
- Basic Books, 2010
Amazon | This is a radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness. The Ego Tunnel, a major work from one of the brightest of the new generation of philosophers of mind, proposes a simple yet radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness and a fascinating and controversial exploration of what it implies.…
- Author:
- Gary Wenk
- Published:
- Oxford University Press, 2010
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
January 12, 2012
- Author:
- Cathy N. Davidson
- Published:
- Viking Adult, 2011
Amazon | When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light — as an innovative way to…
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Principles and Practice
January 12, 2012
- Author:
- Jonathan Wolpaw, Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw
- Published:
- Oxford University Press, 2012
Amazon | In the last 15 years, a recognizable surge in the field of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) research and development has emerged. This emergence has sprung from a variety of factors. For one, inexpensive computer hardware and software is now available and can support the complex high-speed analyses of brain activity…
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Future
January 12, 2012
- Author:
- John Brockman
- Published:
- Harper Perennial, 2011
Amazon | How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it’s exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world’s most influential minds. Brilliant,…
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
January 12, 2012
- Author:
- Michael Nielsen
- Published:
- Princeton University Press, 2011
Amazon | In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how…
Post Mortal Syndrome: A Science Fiction Novel
January 11, 2012
- Author:
- Damien Broderick, Barbara Lamar
- Published:
- Borgo Press, 2011
Amazon | Attorney Jill Shannon’s clients include Blick Pharmaceuticals, which is pursuing research into life-extending drugs.
Blick has reawakened the homicidal maniac Payback, whom they created twenty years earlier, to literally kill off the competition by targeting research scientists.
Jill’s boyfriend, Paul Gibson, one of the scientists, is forced to…
Imagine: How Creativity Works
January 4, 2012
- Author:
- Jonah Lehrer
- Published:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
Amazon | Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
From the best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the…
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
January 4, 2012
- Author:
- Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
- Published:
- Princeton University Press, 2009
Amazon | Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything…
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
January 3, 2012
- Author:
- Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Published:
- Free Press, 2012
Distrust That Particular Flavor
January 3, 2012
- Author:
- William Gibson
- Published:
- Putnam Adult, 2012
Amazon | William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. Wired magazine sent him…