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Introduction -- Part 1: Can you "judge a book by its cover"? -- Part 2: Is "a friend in need a friend indeed"? -- Part 3: Does "love conquer all"? -- Part 4: Is "no man an island"? -- Something vaguely resembling a conclusion -- Resources -- Before we say goodbye.

Marginal improvement, significant impact -- Blinded by bias -- Rational decisions -- Decision analysis -- How to solve any problem -- Cerebral junk food -- The input paradox -- Auditing mental accounting -- Mistakes at the heart of investment management -- Manager selection -- Prophecy of value -- Mind over matter -- Coaching -- Trading decisions -- How to stop losing money -- The danger of shortcuts -- The power of the unexpected

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- PART I Introduction, Study Design, and Theory -- 1 Novelty and Technological Objects -- 1.1 Introducing the RBO Hand and Mirage -- 1.1.1 The RBO Hand and the Development of Robotic Hands -- 1.1.2 Mirage and the Advent of Technologies in Art -- 1.2 Study Design I: Shaking off Taken-for-Granted Labels -- 1.3 Theoretical Perspectives: Invention, Differential Pattern, or Biographical Passage -- 1.3.1 Novelty as Invention -- 1.3.2 Novelty as Differential Pattern -- 1.3.3 Novelty as Biographical Passage -- 1.4 Toward Novelty as Articulation -- 1.4.1 Articulation -- 1.4.2 Figures -- 1.4.3 Technicity -- 1.4.4 Enactment -- 1.5 Study Design II: Abstraction, Critique, and Comparison as Method -- 1.6 Overview of the Study -- PART II Analysis - Three Articulations of Novelty -- 2 Identity: How Loose Elements are Connected -- 2.1 Enacting the Past through Stories and Their Tangible Traces -- 2.1.1 Stories of Deviation -- 2.1.2 Material Traces -- 2.2 Enacting Potentials through Figures, Prototypes, and Bodies -- 2.2.1 Ideas and Their Figures -- 2.2.2 Embodying Material Potentials -- 2.2.3 The Bodily Rendering of Future Objects -- 2.3 Articulating an Object Identity -- 2.3.1 Four Articulations of Ideas -- 2.3.2 Object Identities -- 2.3.3 Novelty as Object Identity -- 3 Form: How Materials Become Effective -- 3.1 Formats and Their Technical Features -- 3.1.1 Technical Features of Robotic Hands -- 3.1.2 Technical Features of Cybernetic Machines -- 3.1.3 Formats and Their Core Functionalities -- 3.2 Hybrid Constellations, Inquiries, and Distributed Agency -- 3.2.1 Robotics Infrastructure and "Everyday Life" in the Laboratory -- 3.2.2 Anticipated Conditions and Inquiries with Open Hardware in the Studio -- 3.2.3 Distributed Agency -- 3.3 Assembling Technical Forms -- 3.3.1 Embodiment as Epistemic and Artistic Stance

Predicting the next 100 years -- Future of the computer : mind over matter -- Future of AI : rise of the machines -- Future of medicine : perfection and beyond -- Nanotechnology : everything from nothing? -- Future of energy : energy from the stars -- Future of space travel : to the stars -- Future of wealth : winners and losers -- Future of humanity : planetary civilization -- A day in the life in 2100

Intro -- Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Part One: Crime -- 1. The Beast -- 2. The Professor -- 3. First Kill -- 4. The Institute of Legal Medicine -- 5. The Vagabond -- 6. Identity -- 7. The Oak Woods -- 8. The Body Speaks -- 9. The Crime in Benonces -- 10. Never Without a Trace -- 11. In Plain Sight -- 12. Born Criminal -- 13. Lourdes -- Part Two: Punishment -- 14. The Investigating Magistrate -- 15. The Interview -- 16. Professor Lacassagne -- 17. A Crime Without Motive? -- 18. Turning Point -- 19. The Trial -- 20. Judgment -- 21. A Question of Sanity -- Part Three: Aftermath -- 22. The Mystery of a Murderer's Brain -- 23. Postscript -- Epilogue: The Violent Brain -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations Credits -- Photos.

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