The next fifty years
Subtitle: science in the first half of the twenty-first century
By: edited by John Brockman
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780297829256
Subjects: Science; History
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1 : The future, in theory; title: The future of the nature of the universe; title: Cosmological challenges : are we alone, and where?; title: The mathematics of 2050; title: In the shadow of culture; title: Swappable minds; title: What children will teach scientists; title: Toward a theory of moral development; title: The science of subtlety; title: The future of happiness; title: Will we still be sad fifty years from now?; title: Fermi's "Little discovery" and the future of chaos and complexity theory; title: What is life?; title: pt. 2 : The future, in practice; title: Son of Moore's law; title: Was there a second genesis?; title: What is to come and how to predict it; title: The merger of flesh and machines; title: Are we going to get smarter; title: The complexity ceiling; title: Tapping into the beam; title: Mind, brain, self; title: What makes us the way we are : the view from 2050; title: Drugs, DNA and the analyst's couch; title: Brain scans, wearables, and brief encounters; title: Mastering disease.