Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in
conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas. Science
today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual
"eurekas." This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a
series of interconnected dialogues with leading scientists who are
asked to reflect on key questions and concepts about the physical
world, technology, and the mind. These thinkers offer both specific
observations and broader comments about the intellectual traditions
that inform these questions; doing so, they reveal a rich seam of
interacting ideas. The persistent paradox of our era is that in a
world of unprecedented access to information, many of the most
important questions remain unsolved. These conversations (conducted
by a veteran science writer, Adolfo Plasencia) reflect this, with
scientists addressing such issues as intelligence, consciousness,
global warming, energy, technology, matter, the possibility of
another earth, changing the past, and even the philosophical
curveball, "is the universe a hologram?" The dialogues discuss such
fascinating aspects of the physical world as the function of the
quantum bit, the primordial cosmology of the universe, and the
wisdom of hewn stones. They offer optimistic but reasoned views of
technology, considering convergence culture, algorithms, "Beauty ?
Truth," the hacker ethic, AI, and other topics. And they offer
perspectives from a range of disciplines on intelligence,
discussing subjects that include the neurophysiology of the brain,
affective computing, collaborative innovation, and the wisdom of
crowds. Conversations with Hal Abelson, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, John
Perry Barlow, Javier Benedicto, Jose Bernabeu, Michail Bletsas,
Jose M. Carmena, David Casacuberta, Yung Ho Chang, Ignacio Cirac,
Gianluigi Colalucci, Avelino Corma, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Javier
Echeverria, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Hiroshi Ishii, Pablo
Jarillo-Herrero, Henry Jenkins, Anne Margulies, Mario J. Molina,
Tim O'Reilly, John Ochsendorf, Paul Osterman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
Rosalind W. Picard, Howard Rheingold, Alejandro W. Rodriguez,
Israel Ruiz, Sara Seager, Richard Stallman, Antonio Torralba, Bebo
White, Jose Maria Yturralde
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