John (EDT) Brockman: This Idea Must Die
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- Kustantaja: Perennial
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780062374349
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The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge. org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge. org-'The world's smartest website' (The Guardian)-challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In : * Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior * Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism * Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence * Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a 'Theory of Everything' * Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think * Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal * Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race * Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe * Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth * and much more. Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today …and tomorrow.