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What Is Your Dangerous Idea: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable


Publishing Details

Full Title:

What Is Your Dangerous Idea: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable

Contributors:

By (Author) John Brockman

ISBN:

9780061214950

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Imprint:

HarperPerennial

Publication Date:

19th September 2016

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Science: general issues
Philosophy of science
Impact of science and technology on society
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

Dewey:

001

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 135mm, Height 203mm, Spine 19mm

Weight:

256g

Description


The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our livesfor better . . . or for worse . . .

From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true.

What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it.

Contributors include
Daniel C. Dennett Jared Diamond Brian Greene Matt Ridley Howard Gardner and Freeman Dyson, among others

Author Bio

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of the national bestsellers This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

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