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

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

by JohnBrockman (Editor)

Synopsis

The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical, brilliant insights that did not so much push the envelope as rip it into shreds. These ideas were dangerous because they challenged our comfort zone.But what are the dangerous ideas of the twenty-first century? Which theories do the world's leading thinkers and scientists regard as too hot to handle -- not because the idea might be false, but because it might turn out to be true?Collecting together the very best contributions to the renowned Edge.org question from the most eminent respondents, WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? is another endlessly fascinating and provocative insight into the bleeding-edge of intellectual endeavour.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 02 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 1416526854
ISBN 13: 9781416526858

Author Bio
John Brockman is a writer, agent and publisher of the 'Third Culture' website www.edge.org, the forum for leading scientists and thinkers to share their research with the general public. He is the author of THE THIRD CULTURE and the editor of several anthologies including WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE and WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?. He lives in New York.