Michael Bhaskar

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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small ThinkingPaperback, 2 August 2022

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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Print Length
432 pages
Language
English
Publisher
MIT Press
Date Published
2 Aug 2022
ISBN-10
0262545101
ISBN-13
9780262545105

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Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.

The history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers--from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheistic religion to quantum theory. And yet for the past few decades, apart from a rush of new gadgets and the explosion of digital technology, world-changing ideas have been harder to come by. Since the 1970s, big ideas have happened incrementally--recycled, focused in narrow bands of innovation. In this provocative book, Michael Bhaskar looks at why the flow of big, world-changing ideas has slowed, and what this means for the future.

Bhaskar argues that the challenge at the frontiers of knowledge has arisen not because we are unimaginative and bad at realizing big ideas but because we have already pushed so far. If we compare the world of our great-great-great-grandparents to ours today, we can see how a series of transformative ideas revolutionized almost everything in just a century and a half. But recently, because of short-termism, risk aversion, and fractious decision making, we have built a cautious, unimaginative world. Bhaskar shows how we can start to expand the frontier again by thinking big--embarking on the next Universal Declaration of Human Rights or Apollo mission--and embracing change.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Bhaskar
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 August 2022
Dimensions:
22 x 14 x 2.59 cm
ISBN-10:
0262545101
ISBN-13:
9780262545105
Language:
English
Pages:
432
Publisher:
Weight:
521.63 gm

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