This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (second hand)

This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (second hand)

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ISBN: 9780062374349

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial February 17, 2015

Material: Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages

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