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The Caine mutiny [DVD]

[2007]

Collector's ed.

During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A shi

DVD

JLC Title 245h

[DVD]

The big sleep [videorecording]

[2005]

Standard version.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

DVD

JLC Title 245h

[videorecording]

Enemy at the gates [DVD]

[2001]

Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Er

DVD

JLC Title 245h

[DVD]

The African Queen [DVD]

[2010]

At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment t

DVD

JLC Title 245h

[DVD]

This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future

1st ed.

"Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you

Book

Harper Perennial,

9780061899676

Book

This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future

Ideas that will shape the future

Preface: The Edge question -- Introduction / Evolution changes everything / DNA : writing the software of life / A change in who we are / The robotic moment / The brain-machine interface / Breaking the species barrier / Slippery expectations / The full flourishing of solar technology / Personal genomics--or maybe not / Our genes are not our fate / A forebrain for the world mind / Future as present : a final experiment / But we shall all be changed / The credit crunch for materialism / The laptop quantum computer / Undo the present ; recall the past / Rounding an endless vicious circle / The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / The feeling that things will get worse / Homesteading in Hilbert space / Revelation / The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / AI and intellectual mastery / Avoiding doomsday / Escaping the Gravity Well / Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Life (or not) on Mars / A separate origin for life / Shadow biosphere / Laboratory earth colonies / Interstellar viruses / Computers are the new microscopes / Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers

The implementation of life in engineered materials / Decoding the brain / Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Superintelligence / Becoming robotic / The synchronization of brains / Thinking small : understanding the brain / Controlling the brain's plasticity / Never-ending childhood / The ebb of memory / Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Malthusian information famine / Reading minds / True lie detection / Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Little changes make the biggest difference / Neuronally expressed messages / A new kind of mind / The age of reputation / Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Culture / Molecular manufacturing / Resizing ourselves / The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Computing the embryo / Homo evolutis / The open universe / Living to a hundred and fifty / Mastering death / No more time decay / West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Climate will change everything / Molecular manufacturing and climate change / The mastery of climate / The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population

Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Accidental nuclear war / The breakdown of all computers / The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Adopting rationality and sustainability / Fusion expectations / Green oil / Attempts at geoengineering / Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / The anthroposphere / At last : technology will change education / Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / On basketball and science camps / A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Wisdom reborn / Tracks and clusters / The mobile phone / Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Undoing Babylon / Soul travel for selfless beings / Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Changes in the changers / Neurocosmetics / Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Celebratory self-reengineering / A different kind of male subjectivity / Hidden persuaders '09 / A lively gamete market / Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / A farewell to harm / God need not actually exist to have evolved / Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / The reality of time / The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Black holes : the ultimate game changer?

Better measurements / We are learning to make phenotypes / The next step in human health care? / Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Biological markers for mental illness / Recognizing that the body is not a machine / The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Africa / Epistemology will change the world / Social media literacy / The decline of text / The end of analytic science / Coordinated computational power will change science / Carniculture / Exploitability / Post-rational economic man / Nothing will change everything / Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / People who can intuit in six dimensions / Massive technological failure / Happiness / Our brave new map of the world / The unmasking of true human nature / And if the big change doesn't arrive? / "Everything" has already changed! / The slow-motion revolution / Why human nature will rebel

Brockman, John, 1941-

by Daniel C. Dennett -- Scott Sampson -- J. Craig Venter -- PZ Myers -- Sherry Turkle -- James Geary -- Richard Dawkins -- Corey S. Powell -- Ian McEwan -- Steven Pinker -- Dean Ornish -- W. Daniel Hillis -- Ernst Pöppel -- Frank J. Tipler -- Rupert Sheldrake -- Donald D. Hoffman -- Seth Lloyd -- Alan Alda -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Brian Eno -- Frank Wilczek -- Stefano Boeri -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Paul Saffo -- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Alexander Vilenkin -- David Dalrymple -- Dimitar Sasselov -- Rodney Brooks -- Robert Shapiro -- Paul Davies -- John Gottman -- George Dyson -- Terrence Sejnowski -- David Eagleman --

Neil Gershenfeld -- Gary Marcus -- Bart Kosko -- Nick Bostrom -- Gregory Paul -- Jamshed Bharucha -- Irene Pepperberg -- Leo M. Chalupa -- Alison Gopnik -- Kevin Slavin -- Susan Blackmore -- Charles Seife -- Kenneth W. Ford -- Sam Harris -- Freeman Dyson -- Barry C. Smith -- Peter Schwartz -- Kevin Kelly -- Gloria Orrigi -- Howard Gardner -- Timothy Taylor -- Ed Regis -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Marc D. Hauser -- Lewis Wolpert -- Juan Enriquez -- Stuart Kauffman -- Gregory Benford -- Marcelo Gleiser -- Emanuel Derman -- Laurence C. Smith -- Stephen H. Schneider -- William Calvin -- Eric Drexler -- Stewart Brand -- Lawrence Krauss --

Gerald Holton -- Max Tegmark -- Anton Zeilinger -- Dan Sperber -- Patrick Bateson -- Roger Highfield -- Alun Anderson -- Oliver Morton -- Daniel Goleman -- Andrian Kreye -- Nicholas A. Christakis -- Haim Harari -- David G. Myers -- Stephon H. Alexander -- Chris Anderson -- Roger C. Schank -- David Gelernter -- Keith Devlin -- Michael Shermer -- Daniel L. Everett -- Thomas Metzinger -- Tor Nørretranders -- A. Garrett Lisi -- Marcel Kinsbourne -- Brian Knutson -- Andy Clark -- Tino Sehgal -- Helen Fisher -- Henry Harpending -- Marco Iacoboni -- Karl Sabbagh -- Jesse Bering -- Clifford A. Pickover -- Lee Smolin -- Gino Segrè -- Paul J. Steinhardt --

Gregory Cochran -- Mark Pagel -- Ian Wilmut -- Paul Ewald -- Eric Kandel -- Randolph Nesse -- Brian Goodwin -- Jonathan Haidt -- James J. O'Donnell -- Lera Boroditsky -- Howard Rheingold -- Marti Hearst -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Lisa Randall -- Austin Dacey -- David M. Buss -- David Berreby -- Richard Foreman -- Verna Huber-Dyson -- Robert Sapolsky -- David Bodanis -- Betsy Devine -- Christine Finn -- Aubrey de Grey -- Carlo Rovelli -- Kai Krause -- Robert R. Provine -- Nicholas Humphrey.

edited by John Brockman.

2010

This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future

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