Discover the universe's last unknowns--here are the unanswered
questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)
Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of
Thinking, Fast and Slow
This is a little book of profound questions (only
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, publisher of Edge.org, asks "a mind-blowing gathering of
innovative thinkers" (Booklist): "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 University of Chicago 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 - The Coddling of the
American Mind author JONATHAN HAIDT - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
FRANK WILCZEK - UC Berkeley psychologist ALISON GOPNICK - philosopher
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN - New York Times columnist CARL ZIMMER -
MIT cosmologist MAX TEGMARK - Whole Earth founder STEWART BRAND -
"Marginal Revolution" economist TYLER COWEN - Anatomy of Love author
HELEN FISHER - Noble Prize-winning NASA physicist JOHN C. MATHER -
psychologist JUDITH RICH HARRIS - Princeton physicist FREEMAN DYSON -
musician BRIAN ENO - environmental scientist JENNIFER JACQUET - Duke
economist DAN ARIELY - Oxford philosopher A. C. GRAYLING - Harvard
cosmologist LISA RANDALL - anthropologist MARY CATHERINE BATESON -
Emotional Intelligence author DANIEL GOLEMAN - Harvard genticist
GEORGE CHURCH - Blueprint author NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS - Stanford
political scientist MARGARET LEVI - economist ALAN S. BLINDER -
publisher TIM O'REILLY - theoretical cosmologist JANNA LEVIN -
Serpentine Gallery owner HANS ULRICH OBRIST - Wired founding editor
KEVIN KELLY - Cambridge astrophysicist MARTIN REES, and more than 200
others.
