What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 15, 2008 Type: User Review |
Entertaining and thought provoking
I got this book as a gift and really knew nothing about it. Almost immediately upon starting, I felt drawn in, eager to continue reading.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
A treasure of ideas from 108 of our most creative minds
(Plus Richard Dawkins, who writes an Afterword.)
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Capitalizing on others' bad writing
If you like reading dissenting views on an online forum, you'll probably enjoy this book. But then again, you could save the cover price and simply visit the forum.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
Experts in one field may know absolutely nothing about ideas from another field, and often are terrible writers, too.
Experts in one field may, as this Book shows, know absolutely nothing about matters in another field of study. This Book is often, but not always, a good example of the maxim:"Ignorance is bliss." Moreover, underlying this Book is a connotation...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
Not so dangerous ideas
I am not so sure there are many dangerous ideas in this book. The most dangerous ideas are in the introduction and the afterword.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 17, 2007 Type: User Review |
From the brilliant and interesting to the trite and idiotic
This yearly gathering of the superbrights has John Brockman asking a question raised by Steven Pinker,"What is your most dangerous idea?" Brockman seems to feel that the answers when taken together point to a wholly new understanding of what...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 12, 2007 Type: User Review |
Dangerous Ideas?
Ever wanted to go to a conference and hear 25 of the top people in their fields talk about what's on their minds? This book does exactly that, and saves you all the aggravation of travel and lodging. You might be surprised how hard it is to put...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
Easy read
Because this book is a compilation of essays, it is an extremely quick read. Every few pages it jumps to another author's ideas and this is excellent for keeping your attention. The essays themselves are (for the most part) thought provoking and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 08, 2007 Type: User Review |
I'll have to read it again
They shied away from dangerous ideas that are inflamatory and antisocial. I was hoping to see some of those.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 05, 2007 Type: User Review |
A Little Gem
This book is sort of like a good starting point. These little nugget-ideas are a great place to start a good conversation. Some ideas are far more "dangerous" then others, but it is well worth the read.
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