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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night 2014

1. Dedication

2. Contents

3. Acknowledgments

4. Preface: The Edge Question

5. The Real Risk Factors for War

6. MADness

7. We Are in Denial About Catastrophic Risks

8. Living Without the Internet for a Couple of Weeks

9. Safe Mode for the Internet

10. The Fragility of Complex Systems

11. A Synthetic World

12. What Is Conscious?

13. Will There Be a Singularity Within Our Lifetime?

14. “The Singularity”: There’s No There There

15. Capture

16. The Triumph of the Virtual

17. The Patience Deficit

18. The Teenage Brain

19. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Words?

20. The Contest Between Engineers and Druids

21. “Smart”

22. The Stifling of Technological Progress

23. The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism and the End of Progress

24. Armageddon

25. Superstition

26. Rats in a Spherical Trap

27. The Danger from Aliens

28. Augmented Reality

29. Too Much Coupling

30. Homogenization of the Human Experience

31. Are We Homogenizing the Global View of a Normal Mind?

32. Social Media: The More Together, The More Alone

33. Internet Drivel

34. Objects of Desire

35. Incompetent Systems

36. Democracy Is Like the Appendix

37. The Is-Ought Fallacy of Science and Morality

38. What Is a Good Life?

39. A World Without Growth?

40. Human Population, Prosperity Growth: One I Fear, One I Don’t

41. The Underpopulation Bomb

42. The Loss of Lust

43. Not Enough Robots

44. That We Won’t Make Use of the Error Catastrophe Threshold

45. A Fearful Asymmetry: The Worrying World of a Would-Be Science

46. Misplaced Worries

47. There Is Nothing to Worry About, and There Never Was

48. Worries on the Mystery of Worry

49. The Disconnect

50. Science by (Social) Media

51. Unfriendly Physics, Monsters from the Id, and Self-Organizing Collective Delusions

52. Myths About Men

53. The Mating Wars

54. We Don’t Do Politics

55. The Black Hole of Finance

56. The Opinions of Search Engines

57. Technology-Generated Fascism

58. Magic

59. Data Disenfranchisement

60. Big Experiments Won’t Happen

61. The Nightmare Scenario for Fundamental Physics

62. No Surprises from the LHC: No Worries for Theoretical Physics

63. Crisis at the Foundations of Physics

64. The End of Fundamental Science?

65. Quantum Mechanics

66. One Universe

67. The Dangerous Fascination of Imagination

68. What—Me Worry?

69. Our Increased Medical Know-How

70. The Promise of Catharsis

71. I’ve Given up Worrying

72. Our Blind Spots

73. The Anthropocebo Effect

74. The Relative Obscurity of the Writings of Édouard Glissant

75. The Danger of Inadvertently Praising Zygomatic Arches

76. The Belief or Lack of Belief in Free Will Is Not a Scientific Matter

77. Natural Death

78. The Loss of Death

79. Global Graying

80. All the T in China

81. Technology May Endanger Democracy

82. The Fourth Culture

83. Classic Social Sciences’ Failure to Understand “Modern” States Shaped by Crime

84. Is the New Public Sphere . . . Public?

85. Blown Opportunities

86. The Power of Bad Incentives

87. Science Publishing

88. Excellence

89. Unmitigated Arrogance

90. The Decline of the Scientific Hero

91. Authoritarian Submission

92. Are We Becoming Too Connected?

93. Stress

94. Putting Our Anxieties to Work

95. Science Has Not Brought Us Closer to Understanding Cancer

96. Society’s Parlous Inability to Reason About Uncertainty

97. The Rise in Genomic Instability

98. Current Sequencing Strategies Ignore the Role of Microorganisms in Cancer

99. The Failure of Genomics for Mental Disorders

100. Exaggerated Expectations

101. Losing Our Hands

102. Losing Touch

103. The Human/Nature Divide

104. Power and the Internet

105. Close to the Edge

106. The Paradox of Material Progress

107. Close Observation and Description

108. Impact

109. The Complex, Consequential, Not-So-Easy Decisions About Our Water Resources

110. Children of Newton and Modernity

111. Where Did You Get That Fact?

112. Is Idiocracy Looming?

113. The Disconnect Between News and Understanding

114. Super-AIs Won’t Rule the World (Unless They Get Culture First)

115. Posthuman Geography

116. Being Told That Our Destiny Is Among the Stars

117. Communities of Fate

118. Working with Others

119. Global Cooperation Is Failing and We Don’t Know Why

120. The Behavior of Normal People

121. Metaworry

122. Morbid Anxiety

123. The Loss of Our Collective Cognition and Awareness

124. Worrying About Children

125. The Death of Mathematics

126. Should We Worry About Being Unable to Understand Everything?

127. The Demise of the Scholar

128. Science Is in Danger of Becoming the Enemy of Humankind

129. Illusions of Understanding and the Loss of Intellectual Humility

130. The End of Hardship Inoculation

131. Internet Silos

132. The New Age of Anxiety

133. Does the Human Species Have the Will to Survive?

134. Neural Data Privacy Rights

135. Can They Read My Brain?

136. Losing Completeness

137. C. P. Snow’s Two Cultures and the Nature-Nurture Debate

138. The Unavoidable Intrusion of Sociopolitical Forces into Science

139. The Growing Gap Between the Scientific Elite and the Vast “Scientifically Challenged” Majority

140. Present-ism

141. Do We Understand the Dynamics of Our Emerging Global Culture?

142. We Worry Too Much About Fictional Violence

143. A World of Cascading Crises

144. Who Gets to Play in the Science Ballpark

145. An Exploding Number of New Illegal Drugs

146. History and Contingency

147. Unknown Unknowns

148. Digital Tats

149. Fast Knowledge

150. Systematic Thinking About How We Package Our Worries

151. Worrying About Stupid

152. The Cultural and Cognitive Consequences of Electronics

153. What We Learn From Firefighters: How Fat Are the Fat Tails?

154. Lamplight Probabilities

155. The World As We Know It

156. Worrying—the Modern Passion

157. The Gift of Worry

158. Notes

159. Index

160. Books by John Brockman

161. Copyright

162. About the Publisher