The future is already here. Owen A., Diamandis P., Kotler S., Minsk M., Vainberg S.

"In the gray zone" Adrian Owen

Adrian Owen is the largest Canadian scientist, a neurophysiologist who has devoted more than 30 years of life to the study of processes taking place in the brain in a borderline state. His bold experiments made a breakthrough in the understanding of these processes. Owen’s research was discussed on television and radio, in the press and on the Internet, television documentaries and radio broadcasts were created about them. In 2019, Adrian Owen was awarded the Order of the British Commonwealth for his contribution to the development of neuronauki.

Until recently, the opinion was in the scientific environment that the brain of a person who is in a vegetative state was almost dead. There were many discussions about the advisability of connecting a “living corpse” to life support systems, when there is no hope for brain restoration. But once a young Canadian scientist allowed himself to doubt that the so-called “vegetables” do not feel anything and do not realize what is happening to them and around them. What if in the dungeon of a helpless body suffers, a soul freezes with horror, unable to contact the outside world?

Having enlisted the support of like -minded people, Adrian Owen developed a number of original experiments to confirm - or refute his guess. The results of the experiments stunned the scientist, and the “revived” patients were finally able to talk about what they saw and felt in this mysterious “gray zone” - between life and death.

"abundance. The future will be better than you think "Peter Diamandis, Stephen Kotler

The latest digital technologies develop in exponent, and the fulfillment of the centuries -old dream of mankind becomes quite real: the authors of this book, a well -known entrepreneur and innovator Peter Diamandis and writer Stephen Kotler are sure that very soon we will be able to provide all the inhabitants of the earth with access to pure water And healthy food, for health care and education. In fact, today we already have all the necessary tools for this.

However, in front of you is not a futurological manifesto. This book is a real “road map” of the future, a consistent story about how technologies will help us build an abundance world. And, of course, about the dangers that will meet us on this path.

"Machine of emotions" Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky - an American scientist, one of the founders in the field of artificial intelligence theory, co -founder of the Laboratory of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence at the Massachusetts Technological Institute, a laureate of the Turing Prize for 1969, the Medal Pioneer of Computer Technology (1995) and a whole list of a whole list prestigious international and national awards.

What is the human brain? The machine, ”says Marvin Minsky,“ a complex mechanism that, like any other mechanism, consists of a set of parts and works in a given algorithm. But if the human brain is a mechanism, then what are human emotions? What processes are responsible for confusion or self -confidence, for doubt or insight? For jealousy and love, finally? Minsky believes that emotions are just another way of thinking, complementing the main mental apparatus with new opportunities.

"The first three minutes" Stephen Weinberg

In one of his most important and most famous works “The First Three minutes”, Stephen Weinberg reveals a modern view of the origin of the universe. A simple, accessible language, the author sets out the history of fundamental astrophysical discoveries, unfolds a picture of the evolution of the Universe in the early stages of its development after a large explosion and gives facts confirming the model of the so -called “hot” Universe.