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BIBLIOGRAPHY & VIDEOS: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 - The Singularity is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology , Ray Kurzweil, Viking 2005 , ISBN 0-670-03384-7 2 - The End of Science , John Horgan , Helix 1996, ISBN 0-201-62679-9 3 - The Copernican Revolution , Thomas S. Kuhn, Harvard University Press , 1957, (tenth printing 1979) ISBN 0-674-17103-9 4 - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, University of Chicago Press , 1962 , (second enlarged ed. 1970), ISBN 0-226-45804-0 5 - Relativism and the Social Sciences , Cambridge University Press 1985, ISBN 0-521-33798-4 6 - Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, MIT Press 1965 ISBN 0-262-73009-X 7- The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener, De Capo Press 1988 ISBN 0-306-80320-8 8 - Godel's Proof , Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman ,New York University Press 2001, ISBN 0-8147-5816-9 9 - Godel, Escher, Bach , Douglas R. Hofstadter,Basic Books 1979, ISBN 0-465-02656-7 10 - Freedom and Neurobiology , J. R. Searle ,Columbia University Press 2007, ISBN 0-231-13752-4 11 - What Computers still can't do, H. L. Dreyfuss MIT Pres 1992 ISBN 0-262-54067-3 12 - Information Rules , Carl Shapiro , Hal R. Varian, Harvard Business School Press 1999, ISBN 0-87584-863-X 13 - The End of Work , Jeremy Rifkin, Putnam 1996, ISBN 0-87477-824-7 14 - The Lights in the Tunnel , Martin Ford, Acculant 2009 , ISBN -10 1-4486-5981-7 15 - Supercapitalism , Robert R. Reich , Vintage 2007, ISBN 978-0-307-27799-2 Another formulation of the current economical problem as seen by a politician : secretary of labor of Clinton. 16 - Nationalism and After , E. H. Carr , Macmillan 1945, ISBN ? 17 - Nations and Nationalism since 1780 , E. J. Hobsbawm , Cambridge 1990, ISBN 0-521-43961-2 18 - Nations and Nationalism , E. Gellner , Cornell University Press 1983, ISBN 0-8014-9263-7 19 - Plough, Sword and Book , E. Gellner , University of Chicago Press 1988, ISBN 0-226-28702-5 20 - The World is Flat , T. Friedman , Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005, ISBN 10 : 0-374-29288-4 21 - Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and A. D. Williams, Portfolio 2006, ISBN 978-1-59184-138-8 22 - How we compete , S. Berger , Doubleday 2005, ISBN 0-385-51359-3 23 - Making Globalization Work , J. Stiglitz Allen Lane 2006, ISBN-10 : 0-713-99972-1 24 - Cities and the Wealth of Nations , J. Jacobs , Vintage 1984, ISBN 0-39472911-0 25 - The rise of the Creative Class , R. Florida , Basic Books 2003, ISBN-13: 978-1864032567 26 - The flight of the Creative Class , R. Florida , Harper Business 2005, ISBN 0-06-075690-X 27 - Endogenous Growth Theory, P. Aghion, P. Howitt , MIT Press 1998 ISBN-10 : 0-262-01166-2 28- Justice, M. J. Sandel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009 , ISBN 978-0-374-18065-2 29 - A Theory of Justice, J. Rawls, Belknap Press 1971 , ISBN 0-674-01772-2 30 - The Law of Peoples , J. Rawls , Harvard University Press 2002, ISBN 0-674-00542-2 31 - The Idea of Justice, A. Sen , Belknap Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03613-0 VIDEOS 1 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6140406219828000794# (49':52'') 2 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6140406219828000794#docid=8832143373632003914 (34' : 18'') Kurzweil general talk on Singularity 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A (23':42'') Three talks by Kurzweil related to education 4a - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcGLquxsfdM&feature=related) (6':39'') 4b - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWWW0tLtskk&feature=related (7':22'') 4c - http://www.scholarspot.com/video/1063/4410/ (5' : 14'') (the following web site contains an animation of helio(sun) centered and earth centered orbits of Mars : not a video !!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution 5 - A 10 minute duration musical dance celebrating the new universe created by Galileo in J. Losey's film version of B. Brecht's play Galileo (Chapter 9 of the DVD) An authors@google talk by the philosopher J. Searle on free will at 6a - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCyKNtocdZE (1:05': 33'') A Conversations with History series talk by the philosopher H. L. Dreyfuss at 6b - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CHgt2Szk-I (57' : 18'') An authors@google talk by Jeremy Rifkin at 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVXo3qYSt0 (50':42'') An MIT series video talk by T. Friedman on his book The World is Flat at 8 - http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/519 (48':20) An authors@google series talk by Dan Tapscott on his book Wikinomics at 9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF0k6dEm0zQ (50':42') An authors@google talk by nobel laurate Joseph Stiglitz on Making Globalization Work at 10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzhD7KVs-R4 (42':27'') A video talk by R. Florida on his theory of the creative class at 11 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF0k6dEm0zQd (59':22'') A TED series talk by P. Romer on charter cities at 12 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHBma0Ithk (19':40'') An interactive talk by M. J. Sandel on Markets and Morals at 13 - http://fora.tv/2009/07/20/Michael_Sandel_on_Markets_and_Morals (1:05':47'') A Conversations with History series talk at UC Berkeley with nobel laurate economics Professor Amartya Sen and another talk related to justice. 14 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muzELM1_uw (59' : 31'') 15 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSjmHzqBFpM (1h : 10 ? : 16??) A 2007 talk by Marvin Minsky on recent trends (common sense resoning) on AI in MIT 16 - http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/484 (1h 23' 10'') Two talks by neuro scientist Antonio Damasio on the role of emotions on will and consciousness 17 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbacW1HVZVk (34' 02'') (Barcelona Conference) 18 - http://fora.tv/2009/07/04/Antonio_Damasio_This_Time_With_Feeling (1h 05' 35'') Fora TV A talk by brain-philosopher Patricia Churchland on free will 19 - http://video.filestube.com/watch,1f7649b1cd3b606a03ea/2-11-Patricia-Churchland-on-Free-will.html (10' 30'') TSN A talk by Sir Ken Robinson on shortcomings of contemporary education 20 - http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/10/14/rsa-animate-changing-education-paradigms/ (11' 40'') RSA
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