Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology – A Mind-Expanding Primer from Edge.org's Leading Thinkers - John Brockman

"Culture is truly a cutting edge book. I have now read it for the third time. The title can be misleading and cause the reader to anticipate a more traditional approach to the concept of culture as a study or appraisal of existing institutions and/or social environments from an historical or empirical perspective. The essayists are the the best in their areas of expertise and offer the reader an analytical (scientific) paradigm to both evaluate and project the impact of state of the art technologies, in particular, and, intellectual revisionist thinking, generally, on the evolution of contemporary man as a phenomena of biological, and past, present and prospective environmental (including institutional) exposures." - Amazon Customer Reviews