What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable Paperback - 2014
by Brockman, John
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The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications.
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- Title What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
- Author Brockman, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2014
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061214957I3N00
- ISBN 9780061214950 / 0061214957
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.36 x 0.84 in (20.27 x 13.61 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Intellectual life, Intellectuals
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006047171
- Dewey Decimal Code 001
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Summary
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.
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- Discover, 06/01/2007, Page 73