This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Brockman
SeriesEdge Question Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 135
Category/GenrePhilosophy of science
ISBN/Barcode 9780061899676
ClassificationsDewey:501.12
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperPerennial
Publication Date 2 June 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

"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.

Author Biography

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of the national bestsellers This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

Reviews

"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