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The greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years, edited by John Brockman

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The greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years

edited by John Brockman

The caravel / Alun Anderson -- Quantum theory / Philip Anderson -- Social structures that enable inventions / John C. Baez -- The bell; the symphony orchestra / Julian B. Barbour -- Organized science / Samuel H. Barondes -- The Indo-Arab counting system / John D. Barrow -- Economic man most boring invention / Mary Catherine Bateson -- The harnessing of electricity / Patrick Bateson -- The information economy / David Berreby -- The contraceptive pill / Susan Blackmore -- Christianity and Islam / Stewart Brand -- The electric motor / Rodney Brooks -- The domestication of the horse / Stephen Budiansky -- Television in its effects on mating patterns / David BussComputers as modelers of climate / William H. Calvin -- The printing press / Philip Campbell -- The basket / Jeremy Cherfas -- Philosophical skepticism / Luyen Chou -- The digital ecosystem / Andy Clark -- The thermionic value / Peter Cochrane -- Distillation / Ron Cooper -- Various, including the flag / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Gutenberg's press with movable type / Garniss Curtis -- The spectroscope / Richard Dawkins -- The concept of education / Stanislas Dehaene -- The battery / Daniel C. Dennett -- The Hindu-Arabic number system / Keith Devlin -- Geometry / Thomas de Zengotita -- Afterword / Jared Diamond -- Computer networks / John C. Dvorak -- Self-government / Esther Dyson -- Hay / Freeman Dyson -- The universal turing machine / George Dyson -- Evolution by selection / Paul W. EwaldClassical music / Howard Gardner -- Disbelief in the supernatural / Murrary Gell-Mann -- The realization of our place in the cosmos / Don Goldsmith -- The printing press / Brian C. Goodwin -- Double-entry accounting / Gordon Gould -- The telescope / Brian Greene -- Television / Viviana Guzman -- The computer / David Haig -- Anesthesia / Stuart R. Hameroff -- The electric light and aspirin / Marc D. Hauser -- The electric light and aspirin / Marc D. Hauser -- The interrogative sentence; space travel / Reuben Hersh -- The clock / W. Daniel Hillis -- Board games / John Henry Holland -- Free will / John Horgan -- The infinitesimal calculus / Verena Huber-Dyson -- Reading glasses / Nicholas Humphrey -- The construction of autonomous tools / Piet Hut -- Mathematical representation / George JohnsonThe city / Steven Johnson -- The calculus / Bart Kosko -- The programmable computer / Lawrence M. Krauss -- The idea of an idea / George Lakoff -- The telescope and the theory of evolution by natural selection / Christopher G. Langton -- The human ego / Jaron Lanier -- The printing press and the thermos bottle / Leon Lederman -- Various, including the idea that all people are created equal / Joseph LeDoux -- The pill, the gun, hydraulic engineering / Maria Lepowsky -- The idea of continued scientific and technological progress / John McCarthy -- Marketing / Geoffrey Miller -- The identification of smell / Marvin Minsky -- The atomic bomb / Marney Morris -- Genetic engineering / Oliver Morton -- The control group / David G. Myers -- The Copernican theory / Michael Nesmith -- Printing / Randolph NesseThe mirror / Tor Norretranders -- Late-twentieth-century health care / James J. O'Donnell -- Secularism / Jay Ogilvy -- Papermaking / Clifford Pickover -- The university / Paolo Pignatelli -- The alphabet and the lens / Steven Pinker -- Flying machines / Richard Potts -- Universal schooling / Robert R. Provine -- The Gatling gun / Bob Rafelson -- Indo-Arabic number system / V.S. Ramachandran -- Volta's electric battery / John Rennie -- The evolution of technology / Howard Rheingold -- Democracy and social justice / Steven Rose -- The eraser / Douglas Rushkoff -- Chairs and stairs / Karl Sabbagh -- The internet / Roger C. Schank -- The green evolution / John R. Searle -- Lenses / Gino SegreThe digital bit / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Genetic sequencing / Robert Shapiro -- The scientific method / David E. Shaw -- Godel's incomleteness theorem / Clay Shirky -- Public key cryptosystems / Charles Simonyi -- Mathematical representation / Lee Smolin -- The computer and the atomic bomb / Dan Sperber -- Telecommunications technology / Tom Standage -- The thirty-three-year English Protestant calendar / Duncan Steel -- The stirrup and the horse collar / Peter Tallack -- The scientific method / Joseph Traub -- Otto von Guericke's static electricity machine / Arnold Trehub -- The plow / Colin Tudge -- The idea of the unconscious / Sherry Turkle -- Nothing / Henry Warwick -- Probability theory / Christopher Westbury -- Science / Milford H. Wolpoff -- Nothing worth mentioning / Eberhard Zangger -- Waterworks / Carl Zimmer