Review: What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science
What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science
Dispatches from the future is a collection of essays by young scientists on the cutting edge. The topics vary from dark energy, to linguistics to neuroscience. All the essays are interesting and reveal young fields which will surely develop in the next decade. Some of the essays offer little major revelations, they simply explain a phenomenon or area of research.
Of the fifteen essays, two stuck out for the implications with respect to social interactions and behaviours of societies:
* Mirror Neurons and whether our ability to mimic others enables us to be more compassionate and ethical. (A similar article found here)
* How our mother tongue affects the way we think about objects, people, and our place in the universe.
A bunch of these essays (I think) can be found on the amazing website, http://www.edge.org
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