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Product details:
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date of Publication 22 December 2009
- ISBN 9780061899676
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 203x134x24 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Collects the perspectives of more than 150 leading intellectuals on scientific ideas and developments that are expected to change the world in the near future, from Ian McEwan's thoughts on the flourishing of solar power to Chris Anderson's views on how the Internet will revolutionize education. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? was the question John Brockman posed to 150 of the worlds sharpest minds. Watch out: their fascinating answers might blow your mind. IAN MCEWAN (author of Atonement) on the full flourishing of solar power; STEVEN PINKER (author of The Language Instinct) on the introduction of direct-to-consumer genomics; RICHARD DAWKINS (author of The God Delusion) on cross-species breeding; SAM HARRIS (The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation) mind-reading technology; NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB (author of The Black Swan) on the end of precise knowledge; CHRIS ANDERSON (editor of Wired magazine; author of The Long Tail) on how the internet will revolutionize education; IRENE PEPPERBERG (author of Alex & Me) on unlocking the secrets of the brain; LISA RANDALL (author of Warped Passages) on advances in our ability to process information faster; FREEMAN DYSON (Physicist, Princeton Univ.) on "Radiotelepathy," the direct communication of feelings and thoughts from brain to brain; BRIAN ENO (music producer) on the battle between hope and fear; J. CRAIG VENTER (decoder of DNA) on rewriting DNA; FRANK WILCZEK (Nobel Prize-winning physicist) on mastering matter through quantum physics; & dozens more ...
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