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Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today's leading thinkers-to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.

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 than 150 of the world's most influential minds

The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human - in fact, it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that score. It is about thinking'. In How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think?, the latest volume in Brockman's cutting-edge Edge questions series, 154 of the world's leading intellectuals - scientists, artists and creative thinkers - explore exactly what it means to think in the new age of the Inter

In seinem Buch "Die dritte Kultur" (BA 1/97) hat Herausgeber John Brockman, Leiter einer Literaturagentur in New York sowie mehrfacher Autor und Herausgeber, die "Dritte Kultur" in den Mittelpunkt gestellt, eine neue intellektuelle Szene, die interdisziplinär, fundiert und in neuen Vorstellungswelten denkt und für die Schlüsselfragen der menschlichen Existenz immer mehr vorausdenkende Leitfiguren hervorbringt. Sie stellt für ihn die ganzheitlich wissenschaftlich denkenden "neuen Humanisten", und in diesem Band kommen diese zu Wort: die Evolutionsbiologin Helena Cronin, die Physikerin Lisa Randall, der Physiker David Deutsch, der Computerwissenschaftler David Gelernter, der Biogeograph Jared Diamond u.a. Sie äußern sich z.B. zur Herstellung von lebenden Systemen, biologischen Fragen der menschlichen Natur, Bran-Theorien u.a. Die Beiträge sind entweder vom Herausgeber zu Aufsätzen umgearbeitete Interview-/Gesprächsaufzeichnungen oder Veröffentlichungen aus der ebenfalls vom Herausgeber ins Leben gerufenen Website der Gemeinschaft "Edge". Wissenschaft auf neuen Wegen - eine spannende Lektüre!

When John Brockman's essay, "The New Humanists" appeared on his popular cutting-edge science website, Edge (www.edge.org), he received a record number of responses from the intellectuals from the Edge community. In his essay, Brockman noted that the American intellectual had become proudly or defiantly ignorant of major scientific accomplishments. According to Brockman, intellectual thought was becoming trapped in a "swelling spiral of commentary," and often ignored the real world. Citing C.P. Snow's theory of two cultures: the literary intellectual and the scientist, Brockman predicted an "emerging third culture" where scientists and other empirical thinkers, through their work and writing, would redefine who and what we are. In The New Humanists: Science At the Edge, Brockman has assembled some of the top scientists of today: Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Marvin Minsky and Lee Smolin and others, and has them discuss the unique contributions each of them are making to the development of modern thought. Some of these thinkers are in sync, others in dissent, but what emerges in The New Humanists is a dialogue that serves as a support to Brockman's theory and an introduction to some of the best scientific minds of the 21st century.

The shift in Western intellectual life is examined. In the 1930s, the designation of intellectual was usurped by literary intellectuals to the exclusion of scientists. By the 1960s, scientists had begun to build a case for the implications of their work, & their ideas became visible not through the writing of journalistic middlemen, but via direct communication with the general public through publication of their own work. Scientific thinkers have created what has become known as a third culture of intellectuals, & traditional science has become public culture. The third culture of scientific thinkers differs from intellectuals of the past in that they tolerate disagreement between ideas & their intellectual pursuits affect the lives of all people on the planet. D. Generoli