Science at the Edge - Hardcover

Brockman, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297607758 ISBN 13: 9780297607755

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

Synopsis

We are living in a world where one of the biggest changes is to the rate of change. In the midst of this scientific, technological and societal revolution, much of the most interesting and improtant work in the sciences today is about computation, as a result of computation, or is informed through models of computation.

Rebooting Civilisation will feature interviews with an ensemble cast of creators, researchers and observers in computer science, physics, cognitative science, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology and technology who are together revising our ideas of reality. These are the people who have made the modern world what it is - one in which software and computation are reshaping civilisation itself.

This state-of-the-art survey of the leading thinkers behind the software revolution examines such broad questions as how software is reshaping our notions of who and what we are; the new visions that are being offered on software, computation, mind, culture and society; how the concept of software as a philosophical idea rather than machine is rebooting civilisation; and whether there is anything beyond software.

About this title

About the Author

John Brockman, president of the Edge Foundation and a founder of The Reality Club, is a writer and literary agent based in New York. He is has written and edited twenty books, including The Third Culture, How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind and The Greatest Inventions of the past 2000 Years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297607758
• ISBN 13: 9780297607755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416