TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEGAMINDS:
How to Create and Invent in the Age of Google
Part I Creativity and Invention
1 – New Creativity for New Prosperity
Introduction
Book Summary
2 – Lessons from the Masters
Wolfgang Mozart and Pablo Casals
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Other Characteristics of Creative and Inventive Minds
3 – Thinking Out of the Box: The Projected Mind
Abstract Thinking and Refocusing the Mind
Creativity and Brain Structure
Cognition and Language
The Emotion Factor
4 – Teams, Collectives and the Clouds
Creative Teams Led by a Charismatic Leader
A New Way of Invention is in Order: The Emergence of Connected Intelligence via the Web
Is HAL on the Way? Computer Intelligence
My Experiments with Internet Design
Part II Models of the Mind
5 – Artificial Intelligence: Can It do Our Inventing for Us?
Really Simple AI
Complex AI
Inventing with AI
What Went Wrong With AI and Where Next
6 – How Our Brain Really Works: Insights for the Computer Partnership
Basics of the Thinking Brain
fMRI Brain Scanning
Back to Google
Consciousness and Creativity
Part III Massive Data and New Solutions
7 – Finding Solutions in Oceans of Data
Machine Learning: The Computer Develops Its Own Model from the Data
Storing of Billions of Data Sets by the Brain
Comparing the Computer with the Brain
Limitations of the Computer
Search Engines
Examples from Drug Research and Development
Aircraft Design
8 – How to Catalog Knowledge and Find What You're Looking For
Information Flows among You, Your Collective and the Computer Clouds
The Age of Google
New Media and More Dimensions
The Semantic Web
The Search for Patterns in Big Data
What of the Scientific Method?
Implications for Inventors
9 – Collective Intelligence: Managing Large-scale Research and Innovation
Examples of Collective Intelligence
The Boeing 787 Project
Solutions from Internet Challenges
Considerations When Using Collective Intelligence
10 – How to Invent with Google
Beginning the Search and Inventing Process
Bringing in the Search Engines
The Six Steps for Innovating and Inventing Using Google
A Design Example
Key Points in Using Google and the Clouds
Conclusion
11 – The Future of MegaMinds: What You Should Know
The Individual, the Internet, and the Truth
A New Awareness and Education
Education's Role
Towards the New Frontier