Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet is changing our minds, culture, and future, in John Brockman’s latest compendium from Harper Perennial and Edge.org.
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How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 150 of the world's most influential minds. Brilliant, farsighted, and fascinating, Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? is an essential guide to the Net-based world.

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“The latest prophetic collection from John Brockman of Edge.org invites scores of the world’s most brilliant thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, and Brian Eno, to predict what game-changing events will occur in their lifetimes. . . . Pouring over these pages is like attending a dinner party where every guest is brilliant and captivating and only wants to speak with you—overwhelming, but an experience to savor.” - Seed magazine

“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world. ” - Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

“A typically brilliant array of brief essays, by turns provocative, playful and profound . . . compulsively readable” - Scientific American