Kate’s 2¢: “What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night” by John Brockman,

Kate’s 2¢: “What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night” by John Brockman,

“What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night” by John Brockman,

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   It is now 2021 and this book was published in 2014, so the essays must have been written in 2012 and 2013 or, perhaps, early 2014. But the fact remains that many of the ‘worries’ these writers have expressed have come true. Why didn’t we listen to these thinking-in-the-future writers, professionals in their respective fields? Is it too late to repair the damage?

From the WEB:

John Brockman (born February 16, 1941) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.

Brockman was born to immigrants of Polish-Jewish descent in a poor Irish Catholic enclave of Boston, Massachusetts. Expanding on C.P. Snow’s “two cultures”, he introduced the “third cultur…

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

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Brockman, John. Reading time: 14 hours, 1 minute.

Read by Gregory Maupin. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Science and Technology

Co-creator of the Edge Foundation shares more than 150 collected essays that address the title question. Respondents include publisher Arianna Huffington discussing stress, technology publisher Tim O’Reilly exploring anti-intellectualism, and Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End (DB 62400), examining mutually assured destruction. 2014.