The Knowledge

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Dr. Lewis Dartnell is a research scientist at University of Leicester, currently holding fellowships for both research and science popularisation. After a first class degree in biology at the University of Oxford he completed a PhD in the field of astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth. His work focuses on how microbial life, and signs of its existence, might survive the cosmic radiation in the dry dusty surface of Mars and what are the best ways to detect it.

Alongside his research, Lewis writes regularly about science and technology for New Scientist, BBC Focus, Cosmos, and national newspapers, has a monthly column in BBC Sky at Night magazine and has won several awards for his science writing. Lewis also presents frequent live events, including at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Institution, literary and science festivals around the world, and even music festivals and a cruise ship touring the Mediterranean. Lewis has also appeared on TV shows including BBC Horizon, Wonders of the Universe, live international news shows, and documentaries on Discovery, History, and NOVA channels.

Lewis’ first book, Life in the Universe: A Beginner’s Guide was published in 2007 by OneWorld Publications, and he has also published an illustrated children’s book My Tourist’s Guide to the Solar System and Beyond with Dorling Kindersley (2012).

出版者:Penguin Press HC, The
作者:Lewis Dartnell
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页数:352
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出版时间:2014-4-17
价格:USD 27.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781594205231
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  • 科普 
  • tools 
  • technology 
  • science-nature 
  • 英语 
  • 英文原版 
  • 【科普杂文】 
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If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible—a guide for rebooting the world?

Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest—or even the most basic—technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, accurately tell time, weave fibers into clothing, or even how to produce food for yourself?

Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can’t hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn’t just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all—the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. This would allow survivors to learn technological advances not explicitly explored in The Knowledge as well as things we have yet to discover.

The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself.

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这只是一场思维游戏,作者的知识面非常之广,这是不容置疑的,但是,盲目的乐观,只会在末世重生后,带来灭顶之灾,食物,水源,武器,弹药,这些才是最重要的,非是悲观,而是永远不要低估人心之恶,平时,我们都是衣冠禽兽,不杀人,只是因为怕犯法,一旦失去了法律的控制,...  

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科学技术是第一生产力。人类社会的发展进步,都是追随者科学技术的进步,呈现着跳跃式发展的态势。特别是现代科技的突飞猛进,使我们对世界的理解呈指数级的增长,为人类文明开辟了更为广阔的空间。但同时也应该看到,科技的发展给我们未来世界埋下了隐患。病毒、核弹、恐怖袭...  

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如果真正有世界重启的那一天,那么作为独立的个体想要遵循书中的内容快速重建文明社会基本不可能实现,人毕竟是社会动物,分工协作仍然是唯一的选择,另外本书只是提供了恢复原有文明的指南,重启之后世界有可能完全朝着现有人类无法理解的方向高速发展,蒸汽朋克有可能实现,...  

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