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What Are You Optimistic About?

Name: What Are You Optimistic About?
ISBN: 9780061436932

by John Brockman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Brian Greene, Jared M. Diamond, Steven Pinker, John Horgan, Sam Harris, Carlo Rovelli, Daniel C. Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Douglas Rushkoff, Anton Zeilinger, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin Elias Pete Seligman, Freeman J. Dyson, Jerry Adler, Gino Segrè, Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, Frank Wilczek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Alexander Vilenkin, Max Tegmark

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400 pages 2007

About This Book

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic about?"Spanning a wide range of topics—from string theory to education, from population growth to medicine, and even from global warming to the end of world—What Are You Optimistic About? is an impressive array of what world-class minds (including Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times bestselling authors, and Harvard professors, among others) have weighed in to offer carefully considered optimistic visions of tomorrow. Their provocative and controversial ideas may rouse skepticism, but they might possibly change our perceptions of humanity's future.