This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (Edge Question Series)

This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (Edge Question Series)

<p>“<em>This Will Change Everything</em> offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel</em> </p><p>Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations <em>What Are You Optimistic About </em>and <em>What Have You Changed Your Mind About </em>with <em>This Will Change Every</em>thing. Brockman asks 150 intellectual superstars “what game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Their fascinating responses are collected here, from bestselling author of <em>Atonement</em> Ian McEwan to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek to electronic music pioneer Brian Eno to writer, actor, director, and activist Alan Alda. </p>