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Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific discovery, todays visionary thinkers target the greatest roadblocks to innovation.
Few truly new ideas are developed without first abandoning old ones. In the past, discoveries often had to wait for the rise of the next generation to see questions in a new light and let go of old truisms. Today, in a world that is defined by a rapid rate of change, staying on the cutting edge has as much to do with shedding outdated notions as adopting new ones. In this spirit, John Brockman, publisher of the online salon Edge.org (the worlds smartest websiteThe Guardian), asked 175 of the worlds most influential scientists, economists, artists, and philosophers: What scientific idea is ready for retirement?
Jared Diamond explores the diverse ways that new ideas emerge * Nassim Nicholas Taleb takes down the standard deviation * Richard Thaler and novelist Ian McEwan reveal the usefulness of bad ideas * Steven Pinker...
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As Author:
By the Late John Brockman
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Afterwords
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Digerati
As Editor:
About Bateson
Speculations
Doing Science
Ways of Knowing
Creativity
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years
The Next Fifty Years
The New Humanists
Curious Minds
What We Believe but Cannot Prove
My Einstein
Intelligent Thought
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
What Are You Optimistic About?
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
This Will Change Everything
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Culture
The Mind
This Will Make You Smarter
This Explains Everything
Thinking
What Should We Be Worried About?
The Universe
As Coeditor:
How Things Are (with Katinka Matson)
To Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennnet, Jared Diamond, and Steven Pinker
Pioneers of the Third Culture
GEOFFREY WEST
MARCELO GLEISER
A. C. GRAYLING
SETH LLOYD
SCOTT ATRAN
LEO M. CHALUPA
HOWARD GARDNER
VICTORIA WYATT
NIGEL GOLDENFELD
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
LEE SMOLIN
ALAN GUTH
BRUCE PARKER
ANDREI LINDE
MAX TEGMARK
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
PAUL STEINHARDT
ERIC R. WEINSTEIN
FRANK TIPLER
GORDON KANE
PETER WOIT
FREEMAN DYSON
DAVID DEUTSCH
W. DANIEL HILLIS
NINA JABLONSKI
RICHARD DAWKINS
PETER RICHERSON
JULIA CLARKE
KURT GRAY
MICHAEL SHERMER
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
ROGER HIGHFIELD
ANTON ZEILINGER
STEVE GIDDINGS
AMANDA GEFTER
HAIM HARARI
SARAH DEMERS
MARIA SPIROPULU
ED REGIS
SEAN CARROLL
NICHOLAS G. CARR
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN
IAN BOGOST
SAM HARRIS
DANIEL C. DENNETT
SUSAN BLACKMORE
TODD C. SACKTOR
BRUCE HOOD
THOMAS METZINGER
JERRY COYNE
ROBERT PROVINE
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL
GEORGE DYSON
ALAN ALDA
GAVIN SCHMIDT
MARTIN REES
SEIRIAN SUMNER
KEVIN KELLY
ERIC J. TOPOL
TIMO HANNAY
ROBERT SAPOLSKY
ATHENA VOULOUMANOS
STEVEN PINKER
ALISON GOPNIK
KILEY HAMLIN
OLIVER SCOTT CURRY
SIMON BARON-COHEN
DANIEL L. EVERETT
TOR NRRETRANDERS
JAMIL ZAKI
ADAM WAYTZ
GARY KLEIN
DEAN ORNISH
RICHARD NISBETT
AZRA RAZA
PAUL DAVIES
STEWART BRAND
BENJAMIN K. BERGEN
N. J. ENFIELD
JOHN MCWHORTER
DAN SPERBER
KAI KRAUSE
IAN MCEWAN
GARY MARCUS
CHRISTINE FINN
DIMITAR D. SASSELOV
SHERRY TURKLE
ROGER SCHANK
TANIA LOMBROZO
FRANK WILCZEK
ALEXANDER WISSNER-GROSS
DAVID GELERNTER
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI
PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND
TOM GRIFFITHS
ROBERT KURZBAN
RODNEY A. BROOKS
SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE
STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN
ANDRIAN KREYE
ERNST PPPEL
ANDY CLARK
LAURIE R. SANTOS & TAMAR GENDLER
JAY ROSEN
ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND
MARGARET LEVI
RICHARD H. THALER
SUSAN FISKE
MATT RIDLEY
CESAR HIDALGO
HANS ULRICH OBRIST
LUCA DE BIASE
MICHAEL I. NORTON
GIULIO BOCCALETTI
LAURENCE C. SMITH
DANIEL GOLEMAN
STUART PIMM
BUDDHINI SAMARASINGHE
SCOTT SAMPSON
EDWARD SLINGERLAND
ALEX HOLCOMBE
ADAM ALTER
BRIAN CHRISTIAN
KATHRYN CLANCY
AUBREY DE GREY
ROSS ANDERSON
KATE MILLS
MELANIE SWAN
FIERY CUSHMAN
SAMUEL ARBESMAN
JUNE GRUBER
ELDAR SHAFIR
DAVID BERREBY
DAVID M. BUSS
HELEN FISHER
BRIAN KNUTSON
PAUL BLOOM
PASCAL BOYER
LAURA BETZIG
JOHN TOOBY
STEPHEN STICH
ALUN ANDERSON
MARTIN NOWAK
MICHAEL McCULLOUGH
KATE JEFFERY
IRENE PEPPERBERG
STEVE FULLER
SATYAJIT DAS
DONALD D. HOFFMAN
GREGORY BENFORD
CARLO ROVELLI
ANDREW LIH
NEIL GERSHENFELD
SAMUEL BARONDES
HUGO MERCIER
JARED DIAMOND
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
JONATHAN HAIDT
GERALD SMALLBERG
LISA BARRETT
ABIGAIL MARSH
DAVID G. MYERS
JOEL GOLD & IAN GOLD
BEATRICE GOLOMB
EDUARDO SALCEDO-ALBARN
CHARLES SEIFE
GERD GIGERENZER
EMANUEL DERMAN
VICTORIA STODDEN
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
BART KOSKO
RICHARD SAUL WURMAN
PAUL SAFFO
My thanks to Laurie Santos for suggesting this years Edge Question and to Paul Bloom and Jonathan Haidt for their refinements. As always, thanks to Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, George Dyson, and Steven Pinker, for their continued support. I also wish to thank Peter Hubbard of HarperCollins for his encouragement. I am also indebted to my agent, Max Brockman, who saw the potential for this book, and, as always, to Sara Lippincott for her thoughtful and meticulous editing.
JOHN BROCKMAN
Publisher & Editor, Edge
THIS IDEA MUST DIE. Copyright 2015 by Edge Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Science advances by discovering new things and developing new ideas. Few truly new ideas are developed without abandoning old ones first. As theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947) noted, A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. In other words, science advances by a series of funerals. Why wait that long?
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