The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of The Universe, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes. He is the founder of the literary agency Brockman, Inc., and lives in New York City.
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In :
Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior
Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism
Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence
Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a “Theory of Everything”
Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think
Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal
Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race
Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe
Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth
and much more.
Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and tomorrow.
一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
評分这本书绝对算不上一本制作精良,论证完美,理论系统完备的好书。里面只是文章的并列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可见的相互独立。内容的覆盖度上也相当的杂,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有争议性的基因遗传,有接地气的人类心理。 很多人可能被开篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸给劝退,或者错以为看...
評分一句话概括:那些需要被重新思考的科学概念。 读后感: “让我们陷入困境的不是无知,而是看似正确的谬误论断。”—马克·吐温 科学是在不断发展的。理解了这一点,就不会陷入名为“科学概念”的谬误论断。 日常生活中,科学已经成为权威的代名词。如...
評分这本书绝对算不上一本制作精良,论证完美,理论系统完备的好书。里面只是文章的并列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可见的相互独立。内容的覆盖度上也相当的杂,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有争议性的基因遗传,有接地气的人类心理。 很多人可能被开篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸给劝退,或者错以为看...
評分这本书绝对算不上一本制作精良,论证完美,理论系统完备的好书。里面只是文章的并列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可见的相互独立。内容的覆盖度上也相当的杂,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有争议性的基因遗传,有接地气的人类心理。 很多人可能被开篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸给劝退,或者错以为看...
居然,我還會來翻譯這麼高級的書。。
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评分居然,我還會來翻譯這麼高級的書。。
评分不少有趣的思路和爭論,不能算科普,需要不少專業知識纔能真正看懂。
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