This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress -- John Brock

<p>The bestselling editor of <em>This Explains Everything </em>brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?</p><p>Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (<em>The Guardian</em>)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In: </p><ul><li>Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior</li><li>Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism</li><li>Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence</li><li>Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a "Theory of Everything"</li><li>Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think</li><li>Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal</li><li>Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race</li><li>Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe</li><li>Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth</li><li>and much more.</li></ul><p>Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, <em>This Idea Must Die </em>will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and