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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

March 8, 2011

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Author:
Brian Christian
Publisher:
Doubleday (2011)

Amazon | The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing, the Tur­ing Test convenes a panel of judges who… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI

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The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts

March 30, 2011

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Author:
Neal Bascomb
Publisher:
Crown (2011)

Amazon | That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing.  A physics teacher with a dream — the first public high-school teacher ever to win a MacArthur… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Electronics | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe

April 4, 2011

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Author:
Fred Alan Wolf
Publisher:
Hierophant Publishing (2011)

Amazon | In his most important book since Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explains how our understanding of time, space, and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these new ideas we have a glimpse into the “mind of God.”

Making comparisons to Hindu Vedic and Judeo-Christian cosmology, Dr. Wolf explains how the universal command of the Deity “Let there be… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Quantum | Space

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Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell

October 28, 2012

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Author:
Dennis Bray
Publisher:
Yale University Press (2011)

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book offers a startling and original answer.

In clear, jargon-free language, Dennis Bray taps the findings of the new discipline of systems biology to show that the internal… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Biotech | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything

February 9, 2011

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Author:
Stephen Baker
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2011)

Amazon | What if there were a computer that could answer virtually any question? IBM engineers are developing such a machine, teaching it to compete on the quiz show ”Jeopardy!” In February 2011, it will face off in a nationally televised game against two of the game’s greatest all-time winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Final Jeopardy tells the riveting story behind the match.

Final Jeopardy carries readers on… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI

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World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet

February 16, 2011

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Author:
Michael Chorost
Publisher:
Free Press (2011)

Amazon | What if digital communication felt as real as being touched?

This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Human Enhancement | Internet/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life

April 21, 2011

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Author:
Jesse Bering
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2011)

Amazon | The surprising psychology behind why we believe in God, the supernatural, and the afterlife.

Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who might be watching us as we go about our lives, and imagining what might come after death.… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality

February 23, 2011

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Author:
Elias Aboujaoude
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2011)

 

Amazon | A penetrating examination of the insidious effects of the Internet on our personalities — online and off. Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it.

Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment

April 4, 2011

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Author:
David Perlmutter, Alberto Villoldo
Publisher:
Hay House (2011)

Amazon | The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve seen — monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe — it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Human Enhancement

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Homo Evolutis

March 16, 2011

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Author:
Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services (2011)

Amazon | There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is next? Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, two of the world’s… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech | Human Enhancement | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures

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Homo Evolutis (Kindle Single) (TED Books)

November 6, 2012

Homo Evolutis

Author:
Juan Enriquez
Publisher:
TED Books (2011)

There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is next? Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, two of the world’s most eminent science authors,… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures

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H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics

May 5, 2011

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Author:
Gregory R. Hansell, William Grassie
Publisher:
Xlibris Corporation (2011)

William Grassie | Can human nature be improved upon with the application on new sciences and technologies? Can we increase human life span, perhaps even curing death? Can we recreate ourselves and our children to be super healthy, super attractive, super athletic, super happy, and super smart? Who gets to decide these questions and how? Would these super humans still be humans or should we better call them… read more

Topics: Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Next Decade: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

January 25, 2011

The Next Decade

Author:
George Friedman
Publisher:
Doubleday (2011)

Amazon | The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.

The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

November 10, 2010
Author:
Jane McGonigal
Publisher:
The Penguin Press HC (2011)

Amazon | More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend ten thousand hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to virtual worlds is that videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. In this groundbreaking exploration of the power and future of gaming, McGonigal reveals… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media

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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

January 25, 2011

The Winter of Our Disconnect

Author:
Susan Maushart
Publisher:
Tarcher (2011)

Amazon | The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more.

When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family’s entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months — from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son’s seriously souped-up gaming PC — her three kids didn’t blink an eye.… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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