Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world a better place—while tech industry critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Despite their differing views of the future, they all seem to agree: machines will soon do everythin...(展开全部)

Is more data always better? Do algorithms really make better decisions than humans? Can we stay in control in an increasingly automated world? Drawing on decades of research into decision making under uncertainty, Gerd Gigerenzer makes a compelling case for the enduring importance of human discernment in an automated world that we are told can - and will - replace our efforts. ...(展开全部)

童文菲（Wenfei Tong），美国生物学家、保护工作者。出生于新加坡，自12岁开始观鸟。先后就读于普林斯顿大学和牛津大学，后获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，目前在该校任助理研究员。著有《怎样理解一只鸟》《鸟类之爱：鸟儿的家庭生活》，通过写作、绘画、摄影、教学、演讲及自然导赏，与公众分享她对大自然和科学的热爱。

童文菲（Wenfei Tong），美国生物学家、保护工作者。出生于新加坡，自12岁开始观鸟。先后就读于普林斯顿大学和牛津大学，后获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，目前在该校任助理研究员。著有《怎样理解一只鸟》《鸟类之爱：鸟儿的家庭生活》，通过写作、绘画、摄影、教学、演讲及自然导赏，与公众分享她对大自然和科学的热爱。

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future – all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or even disproven, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition: take the octopuses that ...(展开全部)

What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octop...(展开全部)

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future – all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or even disproven, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition: take the octopuses that ...(展开全部)

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward -- on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that p...(展开全部)

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberc...(展开全部)

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberc...(展开全部)