This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape The Future [Paperback]

“This Will Change Everythingoffers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofGuns, Germs, and Steel

Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilationsWhat Are You Optimistic AboutandWhat Have You Changed Your Mind AboutwithThis Will Change Everything. 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 ofAtonementIan McEwan to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek to electronic music pioneer Brian Eno to writer, actor, director, and activist Alan Alda.

What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?

This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most influential minds. Exhilarating, visionary, sometimes frightening, but always fascinating, their responses provide an eye-opening road map of our near future.