Philosophers in the Technological Age : The New Pythagoreans.

Intro
Cover
Title page
Dedication
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter I. Philosophy and Mathematics
Mathematics and Philosophy
The Millenary Dawning of the Technological Age
Silicon Valley and Ancient Greece
From Plato's Academy to Stanford University
The Evolution of Mathematics
The Origin of Numbers
Tablets as Ancient as the Babylonian Civilization
The Pre-Socratics: Thinkers of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
Anaximander of Miletus
Other pre-Socratic philosophers
Chapter II. The Sage of Samos: Pythagoras
His origins
Pythagoras, the Mystical Legend
Zoroaster, Buddha, and Confucius
The Sacred Space of Pythagoras: The Portal into the Other World
The Religion of Pythagoras
Some critics
Numerology and the Pythagorean System
Pythagoras and the Tetractys
Pythagoras and Music
The Pythagorean Theorem
Pythagoras and the Kabbalah
Chapter III. The Mystics of the Number
The Brotherhood: the Pythagoreans
Postulates of the Pythagoreans
The Pythagorean Star
The Origin of Robots
Other Pythagoreans
Philolaus of Croton
Archytas of Tarentum
Plato
Euclid
Sacred Geometry and the Divine Proportion
Sacred Geometry
Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
A Mexican Pythagorean: Sculptor Sebastian
The Wonderful Spiral
Chapter IV. Technological Monarchs and Knowledge
The Libraries of Monarchs
The Web and Libraries
The Library of Alexandria
Royal Monastery of St. Lawrence: El Escorial
Google and its Library
From the Tablet of Babylon to Kindle
Chapter V. Google: The Oracle of Artificial Intelligence
Pythagoras and the New Oracle
Larry Page: The New Pythagorean
Sergey Brin: The other Pythagorean
The Pythagorean duo
The Origin of the Internet's Sanctuary
Page Rank: The Holy Grail.

The Pythagorean origin of the name Google
The Origins of the Oracle or Search Engine
Googleplex: Internet's Sanctuary
Erich Schmidt: Another Google Pythagorean
Google and the alphabet
Chapter VI. The Colossi of the Digital Era
The Technological Giants
Apple: Turings' Apple
Amazon: The Company that Changed the World
Amazon and its BFI4 Logistics Center
Microsoft
Facebook, now Meta
Tesla and SpaceX
IBM
Alibaba: The Chinese Giant
Tencent
Baidu
Samsung
Technological Stock Worth More than the GDP of Hundreds of Countries
Tech Giants are Unstoppable
Tech Giants Could Operate as Banks
Chapter VII. Technological Geniuses or Magnates
René Descartes and Analytic Geometry
Gottfried Leibniz and Other Pythagoreans
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
Leonardo Torres Quevedo and the Analogic Machine
John Vincent Atanasoff
Tim Berners-Lee
Bill Gates
Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs: The Mystic
Jeff Bezos: The Pythagorean Wizard
Elon Musk: The Alchemist
Mark Zuckerberg: The Other Pythagorean
Jack Ma: The Chinese Sheik
The Tech Magnates
Carlos Slim Helú: The Mexican Tech Magnate
Philanthropy of the Tech Tycoons
Political Leaders vs. Tech Tycoons
Chapter VIII. The Holy Grail
The Legend of the Grail
Aristotle and the Algorithm
The Origins of the Algorithms in the Construction of the First Machines
The Concept of Algorithm
The Most Important Concept in the World
Kinds of Algorithms
Art and Algorithm
Chapter IX. Artificial Intelligence
Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
From Frankenstein to Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing and Apple's Apple
Where was the Term "Artificial Intelligence" Born?
A Definition of Artificial Intelligence
Critics of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Justice
Neural Networks.

The Brain and the Machine
Chapter X. Pythagoreans in the Technological Era
Tech Monarchs and Philosophers
The Sacred Alphabet
Finally: Today's Pythagoreans
The Debate between Turing and Gurdjieff
Evolution of Mankind or Technological Evolution
The True Oracle
Who Are the True Pythagoreans of Today?
References
Notes
Author information
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