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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914)

by John Brockman (Editor)

Other authors: Alun Anderson (Contributor), Philip W. Anderson (Contributor), Scott Atran (Contributor), Mahzarin R. Banaji (Contributor), Simon Baron-Cohen (Contributor)104 more, Samuel Barondes (Contributor), Gregory Benford (Contributor), Jesse Bering (Contributor), Jeremy Bernstein (Contributor), Susan Blackmore (Contributor), Paul Bloom (Contributor), David Bodanis (Contributor), Stewart Brand (Contributor), Rodney Brooks (Contributor), David Buss (Contributor), Philip Campbell (Contributor), Leo M. Chalupa (Contributor), Andy Clark (Contributor), Gregory Cochran (Contributor), Jerry A. Coyne (Contributor), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Contributor), Paul C. W. Davies (Contributor), Richard Dawkins (Afterword), Daniel C. Dennett (Contributor), Keith Devlin (Contributor), Jared Diamond (Contributor), Denis Dutton (Contributor), Freeman J. Dyson (Contributor), George Dyson (Contributor), Juan Enriquez (Contributor), Paul W. Ewald (Contributor), Todd E. Feinberg (Contributor), Eric Fischl (Contributor), Helen Fisher (Contributor), Howard Gardner (Contributor), Joel Garreau (Contributor), David Gelernter (Contributor), Neil Gershenfeld (Contributor), Daniel Gilbert (Contributor), Marcelo Gleiser (Contributor), Daniel Goleman (Contributor), Alison Gopnik (Contributor), April Gornik (Contributor), John Gottman (Contributor), Brian Greene (Contributor), Diane F. Halpern (Contributor), Haim Harari (Contributor), Judith Rich Harris (Contributor), Sam Harris (Contributor), Marc D. Hauser (Contributor), W. Daniel Hillis (Contributor), Donald D. Hoffman (Contributor), Gerald Holton (Contributor), John Horgan (Contributor), Nicholas K. Humphrey (Contributor), Piet Hut (Contributor), Marco Iacoboni (Contributor), Eric R. Kandel (Contributor), Kevin Kelly (Contributor), Stephen M. Kosslyn (Contributor), Kai Krause (Contributor), Lawrence M. Krauss (Contributor), Ray Kurzweil (Contributor), Seth Lloyd (Contributor), David Lykken (Contributor), Thomas Metzinger (Contributor), Geoffrey Miller (Contributor), Oliver Morton (Contributor), David G. Myers (Contributor), Tor Nørretranders (Contributor), Randolph M. Nesse (Contributor), Richard E. Nisbett (Contributor), James J. O'Donnell (Contributor), John Allen Paulos (Contributor), Ernst Pöppel (Contributor), Irene Pepperberg (Contributor), Clifford Pickover (Contributor), Steven Pinker (Introduction), David Pizarro (Contributor), Jordan Pollack (Contributor), Carolyn C. Porco (Contributor), Robert R. Provine (Contributor), V. S. Ramachandran (Contributor), Martin Rees (Contributor), Matt Ridley (Contributor), Carlo Rovelli (Contributor), Rudy Rucker (Contributor), Douglas Rushkoff (Contributor), Karl Sabbagh (Contributor), Scott D. Sampson (Contributor), Roger C. Schank (Contributor), Charles Seife (Contributor), Terrence Sejnowski (Contributor), Robert Shapiro (Contributor), Rupert Sheldrake (Contributor), Michael Shermer (Contributor), Clay Shirky (Contributor), Barry C. Smith (Contributor), Lee Smolin (Contributor), Dan Sperber (Contributor), Paul J. Steinhardt (Contributor), Steven Strogatz (Contributor), Leonard Susskind (Contributor), Timothy Taylor (Contributor), Frank J. Tipler (Contributor), Arnold Trehub (Contributor), Sherry Turkle (Contributor), J. Craig Venter (Contributor), Philip G. Zimbardo (Contributor)

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Series: The Edge Foundation Annual Question (2006)

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From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum "Edge" (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?" takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it.… (more)

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