TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brockman,John
AU  - Pinker,Steven
AU  - Vinge,Vernor
AU  - Rees,Martin J.
AU  - Dennett,D.C.
AU  - Dyson,George
AU  - Nesse,Randolph M.
AU  - Sumner,Seirian
AU  - Hannay,Timo
AU  - Tegmark,Max
AU  - Sterling,Bruce
TI  - What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night 
SN  - 9780062296238
AV  - HM901 .W52 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Science
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social prediction
KW  - Worry
KW  - Fear
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480) and index; Classic social sciences' failure to understand "modern" states shaped by crime / Eduardo Salcedo-AlbaraÌn -- Is the new public sphere ... public? / Andrew Lih -- Blown opportunities / Frank Wilczek -- The power of bad incentives / Sam Harris -- Science publishing / Marco Iacoboni -- Excellence / Eric R. Weinstein -- Unmitigated arrogance / Jessica L. Tracy -- The decline of the scientific hero / Roger Highfield -- Authoritarian submission / Michael Vassar -- Are we becoming too connected? / Gino Segre -- Stress / Ariana Huffington -- Putting our anxieties to work / Joseph LeDoux -- Science has not brought us close to understanding cancer / Xeni Jardin -- Society's parlous inability to reason about uncertainty / Aubrey De Grey -- The rise in genomic instability / Eric J. Topol -- Current sequencing strategies ignore the role of microorganisms in cancer / Azra Raza -- The failure of genomics for mental disorders / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Exaggerated expectations / Stuart Firestein -- Losing our hands / Susan Blackmore -- Losing touch / Christine Finn -- The human/nature divide / Scott Sampson -- Power and the Internet / Bruce Schneier -- Close to the Edge / Kai Krause -- The paradox of material progress / Rolf Dobelli -- Close observation and description / Ursula Martin -- Impact / Bruce Hood -- The complex, consequential, not-so-easy decisions about our water resources / Giulio Boccaletti -- Children of Newton and modernity / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Where did you get that fact? / Victoria Stodden -- Is idiocracy looming? / Douglas T. Kenrick -- The disconnect between news and understanding / Gavin Schmidt -- Super-AIs won't rule the world (unless they get culture first) / Andy Clark -- Posthuman geography / David Dalrymple -- Being told that our destiny is among the stars / Ed Regis -- Communities of fate / Margaret Levi -- Working with others / Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg -- Global cooperation is failing and we don't know why / Daniel Haun -- The behavior of normal people / Karl Sabbagh -- Metaworry / Brian Knutson -- Morbid anxiety / Joel Gold -- The loss of our collective cognition and awareness / Douglas Rushkoff -- Worrying about children / Alison Gopnik -- The death of mathematics / Keith Devlin -- Should we worry about being unable to understand everything? / Clifford Pickover -- The demise of the scholar / Daniel L. Everett -- Science is in danger of becoming the enemy of humankind / Colin Tudge -- Illusions of understanding and the loss of intellectual humility / Tania Lombrozo -- The end of hardship inoculation / Adam Alter -- Internet silos / Larry Sanger -- The new age of anxiety / Gary Klein -- Does the human species have the will to survive? / Dave Winer -- Neural data privacy rights / Melanie Swan -- Can they read my brain? / Stanislas Dehaene -- Losing completeness / Anton Zeilinger -- C.P. Snow's two cultures and the nature-nurture debate / Simon Baron-Cohen -- The unavoidable intrusion of sociopolitical forces into science / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The growing gap between the scientific elite and the vast "scientifically challenged" majority / Leo M. Chalupa -- Present-ism / Noga Arikha -- Do we understand the dynamics of our emerging global culture? / Kirsten Bomblies -- We worry too much about fictional violence / Jonathan Gottschall -- A world of cascading crises / Peter Schwartz -- Who gets to play in the science ballpark / Stephon H. Alexander -- An exploding number of new illegal drugs / Thomas Metzinger -- History and contingency / Paul Kedrosky -- Unknown unknowns / Gary Marcus -- Digital tats / Juan Enriquez -- Fast knowledge / Nicholas Humphrey -- Systematic thinking about how we package our worries / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Worrying about stupid / Roger Schank -- The cultural and cognitive consequences of electronics / Luca De Biase -- What we learn from firefighters : how fat are the fat tails? / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Lamplight probabilities / Bart Kosko -- The world as we know it / Richard Foreman -- Worrying-- the modern passion / James J. O'Donnell -- The gift of worry / Robert Provine
N2  - Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most
ER  -