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The Life Extension Revolution: The New Science of Growing Older Without Aging

June 1, 2011

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Author:
Philip Lee Miller, Monica Reinagel
Publisher:
Bantam (2006)

Amazon | For the first time the lay public can benefit from the anti-aging secrets discovered by the Life Extension Foundation, the world’s largest, most respected organization dedicated to anti-aging research. Working with the Life Extension Foundation, renowned anti-aging physician Philip Lee Miller shows you how to retain your physical health and vigor, mental clarity, and youthful appearance — for life.

This groundbreaking book translates cutting-edge anti-aging… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Lifecycle of Software Objects

August 3, 2010

Lifecycle of Software Objects

Author:
Ted Chiang
Publisher:
Subterranean (2010)

Amazon | Is science fiction a literature of ideas, or of characters? Works that focus on the former often neglect the latter, and vice versa. It’s very difficult to examine complex abstractions and simultaneously articulate the mechanisms of fiction: most writers who attempt this balancing act end up throttling back on the ideas, or fail sideways into technical writing. So Chiang’s novella–the second piece he’s ever published that’s long… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Social/Ethical/Legal | Synthetic Biology | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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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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The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging

July 16, 2010

The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging

Author:
Michael R. Rose
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA (2005)

Amazon | Rose, an authority on gerontology, uses evolutionary biology to frame the problem of aging, contrasting the drive to reproduce in youth with the ability to survive into old age. In short, according to his research, the Victorians were right: sex is death. The evolutionary pressure of reproducing at an early age seems to have the side effect of causing early aging. Rose’s explanation of his theory is… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study

March 30, 2011

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Author:
Howard S. Friedman, Leslie R. Martin
Publisher:
Hudson Street Press (2011)

Amazon | This landmark study — which Dr. Andrew Weil calls “a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions” — upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.

We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat, how much we stress, and how fast we run. Based on the most extensive study of longevity ever conducted, The… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

September 5, 2012

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Author:
David J. Gunkel
Publisher:
MIT Press (2012)

One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the “animal question”–consideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals.

In this book, David Gunkel takes up the “machine question”: whether and to what extent intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making can be considered to have legitimate moral responsibilities and any… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True

October 4, 2011

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Author:
Richard Dawkins
Publisher:
Free Press (2011)

Amazon | Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods’ bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back… read more

Topics: Environment/Climate | Physics/Cosmology | Social Networking/Web/Education | Space

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The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World

September 12, 2011

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Author:
Wagner James Au
Publisher:
HarperBusiness (2008)

Amazon | The wholly virtual world known as Second Life has attracted more than a million active users, millions of dollars, and created its own — very real — economy.

The Making of Second Life is the behind-the-scenes story of the Web 2.0 revolution’s most improbable enterprise: the creation of a virtual 3-D world with its own industries, culture, and social systems. Now the toast of the Internet economy,… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Entertainment/New Media | Internet/Telecom | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal

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The Mind and the Machine: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters

June 17, 2011

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Author:
Matthew Dickerson
Publisher:
Brazos Press (2011)

Amazon | What does it mean to be human? Some naturalists believe that the human mind can be reduced to brain biology, suggesting that we are no more than complex biochemical machines. Computer scientist Matthew Dickerson critiques a physicalist/naturalist view of human persons and defends theistic accounts of human nature. He responds to the widespread assertion that human consciousness is nothing more than “software” that can one… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Mind’s Eye

February 8, 2011

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Author:
Oliver Sacks
Publisher:
Knopf (2010)

Amazon | In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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The Minerva Virus

January 4, 2012

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Author:
Brian Shuster
Publisher:
Night Candy (2006)

Amazon | In the depths of the internet, a new form of life is unleashed. Silent and invisible, the only hint of its existence is an ordinary-seeming computer virus, which the human race regards as a mere nuisance. But this virus is unlike anything mankind has seen before . . . this virus can evolve! As it explodes across the internet, a new plague begins to take control… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Electronics | Internet/Telecom

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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 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 Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World

March 26, 2013

The Nature of the Future

Author:
Marina Gorbis
Publisher:
Free Press (2013)

A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world.

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper “The Nature of the Firm,” provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making the provision of… read more

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

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

February 15, 2011

netdelusion

Author:
Evgeny Morozov
Publisher:
PublicAffairs (2011)

Amazon | “The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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