Every year, Edge.org's World Question Center poses a new question to be answered by a group of luminary thinkers--philosophers, scientists, historians and the like. The 2010 question is "How is the Internet changing the way YOU think?" This book collects the responses of more th…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values. From free speech to privacy, from liberty and personal autonomy to the right against self-incrimination, basic constitutional principles are…
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the …
This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and ph…
Is the informational world of smartphones and social media changing who we are and how we relate to others and the environment? Are we becoming informational organisms or 'inforgs', deeply enmeshed in a globe-spanning 'infosphere'?
1. Equality of welfare 2. Equlity of resources 3. The place of liberty 6. Equality and the good life 7. Equality and capability 8. Justice and the high cost of health 9. Justice, insurance, and luck 10. Free speech, politics, and the dimenaions of democracy 11. Affirmati…
The book argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. The author uses the politics and debates of gentrification to diagnose the problems blighting our…
