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“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 intellectual superstars “what game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Their fascinating responses are collected here, from bestselling author of Atonement Ian McEwan to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek to electronic music pioneer Brian Eno to writer, actor, director, and activist Alan Alda.
Book Description
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most influential minds. Exhilarating, visionary, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating, their responses provide an eye-opening road map of our near future.
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Author Extras
Mr. John Brockman Biography
Critical Praise for This Will Change Everything
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“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world. ”
— Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
“The latest prophetic collection from John Brockman of Edge.org invites scores of the world’s most brilliant thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, and Brian Eno, to predict what game-changing events will occur in their lifetimes. . . . Pouring over these pages is like attending a dinner party where every guest is brilliant and captivating and only wants to speak with you—overwhelming, but an experience to savor.”
— Seed magazine
“John Brockman assembles a stellar cast of intellectuals . . . His latest has drawn a stunning array of responses, from nuclear terrorism to in-vitro meat. . . . Perfect for anyone who wants to know what the big thinkers will be chewing on in 2010.”
— New Scientist
“Full of ideas wild ideas . . . offers dozens of ingenious ways to think about progress.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A provocative, demanding clutch of essays covering everything from gene splicing to global warming to intelligence, both artificial and human, to immortality. Edited by John Brockman this is the kind of book into which one can dip at will. ... The way Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science with ones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzz any brain. . . . Brockman clearly is an agent provocateur of ideas. Getting the best of them to politicians who can use them to execute positive change is the next step.”
— Chicago Sun-Times
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ISBN: 9780061899676; ISBN10: 0061899674; Imprint: Harper Perennial ; On Sale: 12/22/2009; Format: Trade PB; Trimsize: 5 5/16 x 8; Pages: 416; $14.99; Ages: 18 and Up
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