The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life

by Daniel Kahneman (Foreword), Daniel Kahneman (Foreword), John Brockman (Author), Daniel Kahneman (Foreword)

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  2019

  $17.74

  A little book of big questions, posed by the world's finest minds (The Guardian): In the blockbuster conclusion to publishing's bestselling science series, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Elaine Pagels, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, and more than 200 others reveal the universe's greatest unanswered questions.

  This is a book of questions-only questions. In these pages are the universe's last and greatest unknowns. Here are the riddles that have fascinated, perplexed, and obsessed today's greatest minds. In the spirit of the multi-million-copy, #1 New York Times bestselling The Book of Questions, comes John Brockman The Last Unknowns, the conclusion to the Edge Question Series, the world's bestselling science book series, with more than 600,000 copies sold.

  Every great thinker has his or her ultimate question, the unknown that, if answered, could unlock the secrets of our world, our civilization, and even the meaning of life. And so, John Brockman asked 284 of the world's leading scientists, academics, artists, and intellectuals, What is `The Last Question,' your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND: Why is there such widespread public opposition to science and scientific reasoning in the United States, the world leader in every major branch of science? * psychologist STEVEN PINKER: How can we empower the better angels of our nature? * author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI: Is there an ultimate reality? * anthropologist and paleobiologist NINA JABLONSKI: When will race disappear? * Booker Prize-winning novelist IAN McEWAN: If the sum of all significant knowledge is finite, what proportion of it can humans, aided by intelligent machines, eventually attain? * science historian GEORGE DYSON: Why are there no trees in the ocean? * behavioral scientist DYLAN EVANS: Will civilization collapse before I die? * And more than 200 others, including DANIEL C. DENNETT, SAM HARRIS, ELAINE PAGELS.