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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
First edition (US)
Author
John Brockman
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Science, Technology, Futurology
Publisher
Vintage Books (US) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK)
Publication date
2002
Media type
Paperback
ISBN
0-375-71342-5
OCLC
48450819
Dewey Decimal
501/.12 21
LC Class
Q125 .N485 2002
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century is a 2002 collection of essays by twenty-five well-known scientists, edited by Edge Foundation founder John Brockman, who wrote the introduction.
The essays contain speculation by the authors about the scientific and technological advances that are likely to occur in their various fields in the first half of the 21st century.
The collection is divided into two parts; the twelve essays in Part One are devoted to more theoretical speculation, whereas the thirteen essays in Part Two discuss the possible practical applications of scientific and technological advance.
The contributing scientists are:
Lee Smolin, The Future of the Nature of the Universe
Martin Rees, Cosmological Challenges: Are We Alone, and Where?
Ian Stewart, The Mathematics of 2050
Brian Goodwin, In the Shadow of Culture
Marc D. Hauser, Swappable Minds
Alison Gopnik, What Children Will Teach Scientists
Paul Bloom, Toward a Theory of Moral Development
Geoffrey Miller, The Science of Subtlety
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Future of Happiness
Robert M. Sapolsky, Will We Still Be Sad Fifty Years from Now?
Steven Strogatz, Fermi's "Little Discovery" and the Future of Chaos and Complexity Theory
Stuart Kauffman, What Is Life?
Richard Dawkins, Son of Moore's Law
Paul Davies, Was There a Second Genesis?
John H. Holland, What Is to Come and How to Predict It?
Rodney Brooks, The Merger of Flesh and Machines
Peter Atkins, The Future of Matter
Roger C. Schank, Are We Going to Get Smarter?
Jaron Lanier, The Complexity Ceiling
David Gelernter, Tapping Into the Beam
Joseph E. LeDoux, Mind, Brain, and Self
Judith Rich Harris, What Makes Us the Way We Are: The View from 2050
Samuel Barondes, Drugs, DNA, and the Analyst's Couch
Nancy Etcoff, Brain Scans, Wearables, and Brief Encounters
Paul W. Ewald, Mastering Disease
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