The Last Unknowns
Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life – Nobel Laureate Essays
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Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow THIS IS A LITTLE BOOK OF PROFOUND QUESTIONS —unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. In The Last Unknowns, John Brockman asks innovative thinkers: "What is ‘The Last Question,’ your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?" Featuring the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND • Nobel Prize-winning economist RICHARD THALER • Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKER • religion scholar ELAINE PAGELS • author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI • Booker Prize–winning novelist IAN McEWAN • neuroscientist SAM HARRIS • philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT • MIT theorist SHERRY TURKLE • decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTER • Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZEK • New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER • Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND • economist TYLER COWEN • Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY • Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON • musician BRIAN ENO • Duke economist DAN ARIELY • Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL , and more than 200 others.
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The Last Unknowns, John Brockman, Daniel Kahneman
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
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- Titel
- The Last Unknowns
- Untertitel
- Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life – Nobel Laureate Essays
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Brockman, Daniel Kahneman
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0062897942
- ISBN13
- 9780062897947
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Natur, Naturwissenschaften, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Philosophisches Thema, Wissenschaft, USA, Popkultur, Metaphysik, Wissen, Geschichte der Wissenschaft, Fragen und Antworten
- Beschreibung
- Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow THIS IS A LITTLE BOOK OF PROFOUND QUESTIONS —unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. In The Last Unknowns, John Brockman asks innovative thinkers: "What is ‘The Last Question,’ your last question, the question for which you will be remembered?" Featuring the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel JARED DIAMOND • Nobel Prize-winning economist RICHARD THALER • Harvard psychologist STEVEN PINKER • religion scholar ELAINE PAGELS • author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics CARLO ROVELLI • Booker Prize–winning novelist IAN McEWAN • neuroscientist SAM HARRIS • philosopher DANIEL C. DENNETT • MIT theorist SHERRY TURKLE • decoder of the human genome J. CRAIG VENTER • Nobel Prize-winning physicist FRANK WILCZEK • New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER • Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND • economist TYLER COWEN • Wired founding editor KEVIN KELLY • Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON • musician BRIAN ENO • Duke economist DAN ARIELY • Harvard cosmologist LISA RANDALL , and more than 200 others.