By John Brockman
The world's best medical thinkers discover daring, striking, perilous rules which may swap our lives—for larger . . . or for worse . . .
From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have constantly promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that problem every thing society holds expensive; principles with either optimistic and dire effects. Many techniques that resonate at the present time are risky no longer simply because they're assumed to be fake, yet simply because they may change into true.
What do the world's major scientists and thinkers deliberate to be their most deadly thought? throughout the best on-line discussion board Edge (www.edge.org), the decision went out, and this compelling and simply digestible quantity collects the solutions. From utilizing medicine to completely modify our personalities to considering a universe within which we're totally by myself, to the concept the universe will be essentially inexplicable, What Is Your harmful Idea? takes an unflinching examine the bold, breathtaking, occasionally terrifying options which could eternally adjust our global and how we are living in it.
Contributors include
Daniel C. Dennett • Jared Diamond • Brian Greene • Matt Ridley • Howard Gardner and Freeman Dyson, between others
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