What Should We Be Worried About?What Should We Be Worried About?
[Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night]
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Book, 2014
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Current format, Book, 2014, Unabridged, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsPosing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
"Steven Pinker uncovers the real risk factors for war -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi peers into the coming virtual abyss -- Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek laments our squandered opportunities to prevent global catastrophe -- Seth Lloyd calculates the threat of a financial black hole -- Alison Gopnik on the loss of childhood -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why firefighters understand risk far better than economic "experts" -- Matt Ridley on the alarming re-emergence of superstition -- Daniel C. Dennett and George Dyson ponder the impact of a major breakdown of the Internet -- Jennifer Jacquet fears human-induced damage to the planet due to "the Anthropocebo Effect" -- Douglas Rushkoff fears humanity is losing its soul -- Nicholas Carr on the "patience deficit" -- Tim O'Reilly foresees a coming new Dark Age -- Scott Atran on the homogenization of human experience -- Sherry Turkle explores what's lost when kids are constantly connected -- Kevin Kelly outlines the looming "underpopulation bomb" -- Helen Fisher on the fate of men -- Lawrence Krauss dreads what we don't know about the universe -- Susan Blackmore on the loss of manual skills -- Kate Jeffery on the death of death ; plus J. Craig Venter, Daniel Goleman, Virginia Heffernan, Sam Harris, Brian Eno, Martin Rees, and more." --
"Steven Pinker uncovers the real risk factors for war -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi peers into the coming virtual abyss -- Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek laments our squandered opportunities to prevent global catastrophe -- Seth Lloyd calculates the threat of a financial black hole -- Alison Gopnik on the loss of childhood -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why firefighters understand risk far better than economic "experts" -- Matt Ridley on the alarming re-emergence of superstition -- Daniel C. Dennett and George Dyson ponder the impact of a major breakdown of the Internet -- Jennifer Jacquet fears human-induced damage to the planet due to "the Anthropocebo Effect" -- Douglas Rushkoff fears humanity is losing its soul -- Nicholas Carr on the "patience deficit" -- Tim O'Reilly foresees a coming new Dark Age -- Scott Atran on the homogenization of human experience -- Sherry Turkle explores what's lost when kids are constantly connected -- Kevin Kelly outlines the looming "underpopulation bomb" -- Helen Fisher on the fate of men -- Lawrence Krauss dreads what we don't know about the universe -- Susan Blackmore on the loss of manual skills -- Kate Jeffery on the death of death ; plus J. Craig Venter, Daniel Goleman, Virginia Heffernan, Sam Harris, Brian Eno, Martin Rees, and more." --
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- Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by Recorded Books, p2014.
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