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.
The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of The Universe, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes. He is the founder of the literary agency Brockman, Inc., and lives in New York City.
一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
评分一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
评分一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
评分一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
评分一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
edge annual questions对我们理科生来说可读性比munk semi-annual debates强一点
评分居然,我还会来翻译这么高级的书。。
评分看看
评分不是很有意思...
评分不少有趣的思路和争论,不能算科普,需要不少专业知识才能真正看懂。
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