The next fifty years science in the first half of the twenty-first century
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New York, NY :
Vintage Books
2002
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The future, in theory
- The future of the nature of the universe / Lee Smolin
- Cosmological challenges: are we alone, and where? / Martin Rees
- The mathematics of 2050 / Ian Stewart
- In the shadow of culture / Brian Goodwin
- Swappable minds / Marc D. Hauser
- What children will teach scientists / Alison Gopnik
- Toward a theory of moral development / Paul Bloom
- The science of subtlety / Geoffrey Miller
- The future of happiness / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Will we still be sad fifty years from now? / Robert M. Sapolsky
- Fermi's "little discovery" and the future of chaos and complexity theory / Steven Strogatz
- What is life? / Stuart Kauffman
- pt. 2. The future, in practice
- Son of Moore's law / Richard Dawkins
- Was there a second genesis? / Paul Davies
- What is to come and how to predict it / John H. Holland
- The merger of flesh and machines / Rodney Brooks
- The future of matter / Peter Atkins
- Are we going to get smarter? / Roger C. Schank
- The complexity ceiling / Jaron Lanier
- Tapping into the beam / David Gelernter
- Mind, brain, and self / Joseph Ledoux
- What makes us the way we are: the view from 2050 / Judith Rich Harris
- Drugs, DNA, and the Analyst's couch / Samuel Barondes
- Brain scans, wearables, and brief encounter / Nancy Etcoff
- Mastering disease / Paul W. Ewald.
