"A yearly anthology collecting the most compelling, most deeply thought essays and articles about the future of life on our planet"--Back cover.
"A yearly anthology collecting the most compelling, most deeply thought essays and articles about the future of life on our planet"--Back cover.
A yearly anthology collecting the most compelling, most deeply thought essays and articles about the future of life on our planet.
What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet, edited by Meehan Crist and Rose Eveleth, is a best of the year anthology featuring new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the op…
Future science: essays from the cutting edge
Future science: essays from the cutting edge
From 19 talented young scientists comes a volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems today, from neuroscience and evolutionar…
"Eighteen of the top young scientists at work today present for the lay reader the latest developments in the fields of evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, genetic engineering, and climate science"--
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the …
Posing the question "What Should We Be Worried About?" to 150 of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
Who doesn't have at least some curiosity about the future... what things will be like some day, how long it might take, and what to do about it? This book gives answers spanning from the current century to nearly eternity. Imaginative yet scientifically rigorous, most chapters s…