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Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World

October 21, 2010
Author:
Michael D. Fayer
Publisher:
AMACOM (2010)

Publishers Weekly | How a photon can be in two places at once is just one of the conundrums of quantum physics that Fayer (Elements of Quantum Mechanics) helps to unravel. The Stanford University Professor of Chemistry provides a roadmap for non-scientific readers who wish to understand the subject but lack advanced mathematical training.

Fayer’s belief that our everyday experiences “teach us to think in terms… read more

Topics: Quantum | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context

October 21, 2010
Publisher:
NASA (2010)

Amazon | During the last 50 years, coincident with the Space Age, cosmic evolution has been recognized as the master narrative of the universe, history writ large. Cosmic evolution includes physical, biological, and cultural evolution, and of these the latter is by far the most rapid.

In this volume, authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Space

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Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

October 13, 2010
Author:
Gary Shteyngart
Publisher:
Random House (2010)

Amazon | The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years — and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.

In a very near future — oh,… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Biomed/Longevity | Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

October 13, 2010
Author:
Steven Johnson
Publisher:
Riverhead Hardcover (2010)

Amazon | With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Listening to the Future: Why It’s Everybody’s Business

October 11, 2010

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Author:
Daniel W. Rasmus, Rob Salkowitz
Publisher:
Wiley (2008)

Amazon | Listening to the Future: Why It’s Everybody’s Business explores the challenges and opportunities facing organizations, the transformations that will ripple through the political, economic, and social environments, and the implications for different industries in the 21st century workplace. Written by Microsoft forecasters Daniel W. Rasmus and Rob Salkowitz, this important book equips your business to get out in front of new technology innovations in the consumer world… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures

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Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

October 5, 2010

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Author:
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Publisher:
Portfolio Hardcover (2010)

Amazon | In their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. Now, in the wake of the global financial crisis, the principles of wikinomics have become more powerful than ever.

Many of the institutions that have served us well for decades or centuries seem stuck… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Telecom | Singularity/Futures | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works

October 5, 2010

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Author:
Nick Bilton
Publisher:
Crown Business (2010)

Amazon | Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?

The world, as Nick Bilton — with tongue-in-cheek — shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future

September 13, 2010

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Author:
Martin Ford
Publisher:
CreateSpace (2009)

Amazon | What will the economy of the future look like? Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead?

Is it possible that accelerating computer technology was a primary cause of the current global economic crisis–and that even more disruptive impacts lie ahead?

This groundbreaking book by Silicon Valley computer engineer and entrepreneur, Martin Ford, explores these questions and shows how accelerating technology… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures

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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

September 13, 2010

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Author:
Henry Jenkins
Publisher:
New York University Press (2006)

Reed Business Information | Henry Jenkins, founder and director of MIT’s comparative media studies program, debunks outdated ideas of the digital revolution in this remarkable book, proving that new media will not simply replace old media, but rather will learn to interact with it in a complex relationship he calls “convergence culture.”  The book’s goal is to explain how convergence is currently impacting the relationship among media… read more

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

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

September 10, 2010

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Author:
Sam Harris
Publisher:
Free Press (2010)

Amazon | Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values.

Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the most common justification for religious… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man

September 10, 2010

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Author:
Jeffrey Satinover
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2001)

Amazon | Do we have free will or just imagine that we do? Do we create our own destinies or are we merely machines? Can we create a brain bigger than our own? To answer these and many other provocative questions, psychiatrist, researcher, and critically acclaimed author Jeffrey Satinover turns to the cutting edge of science and sees a future for and truth about ourselves that are… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Quantum | Singularity/Futures

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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications

September 10, 2010

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Author:
David Deutsch
Publisher:
Penguin (1998)

Amazon | “Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense,” writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch traces what he considers the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum theory, evolution, computation, and the theory of knowledge. “The four of them taken together form a coherent explanatory structure that is so far-reaching, and has come to… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Quantum

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A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer

September 9, 2010

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Author:
George Johnson
Publisher:
Vintage Books (2004)

Amazon | In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable of almost unimaginable calculations in the blink of an eye.

As computer chips continue to… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Quantum

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

September 7, 2010

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Author:
Nicholas G. Carr
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (2010)

Amazon | The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Internet/Telecom

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Daemon

September 3, 2010

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Author:
Daniel Suarez
Publisher:
Signet (2009)

Amazon | Originally self-published, Suarez’s riveting debut would be a perfect gift for a favorite computer geek or anyone who appreciates thrills, chills and cyber suspense. Gaming genius Matthew Sobol, the 34-year-old head of CyberStorm Entertainment, has just died of brain cancer, but death doesn’t stop him from initiating an all-out Internet war against humanity. When the authorities investigate Sobol’s mansion in Thousand Oaks, Calif., they find… read more

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