Dimensions
135 x 203 x 24mm
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.
