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: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. By Geoffrey West. Penguin Press; 479 pages; $30. Weidenfeld & Nicholson; £25. GEOFFREY WEST is the restless sort. He has spent much of his career as a theoretical physicist, worki

11th 2017 Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. By Geoffrey West. Penguin Press; 479 pages; $30. Weidenfeld & Nicholson; £25. GEOFFREY WEST is the restless sort. He has spent much of his career as a theoretical

ct which involves two dozen of the world's leading thinkers on AI and will result in a book, US rights to which have been successfully auctioned to Penguin Press. Tentative title: DEEP THINKING: ON THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF AI. The inspiration for framing the project came from Jaan Tallin, co-founder of Skype

ic fields: the AI researchers Dario Amodei and Stuart Russell; the communications theorist Joichi "Joi" Ito; the complex adaptive systems researcher Geoffrey West; the computational socia)1 scientist Alex "Sandy" Pentland; the computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis; the cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bat

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kman Katinka Matson Russell Weinberger Max Brockman BALANCE OF POWER The Race Between State and Society By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson [US — Penguin Press, UK — Viking, Germany — Fischer Verlag, Netherlands — Nieuw Amsterdam, Italy — Il Saggiatore, Spain — Duesto, Brazil — Intrinseca, Greece — Livanis,

o SCALE The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia By Geoffrey West [US — Penguin Press, UK — Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Holland — Het Spectrum, Finland — Terra Cognita, Brazil — Das Letras; Japan — Hayakawa; Korea — Gim