The Evolution of Everything
World.Minds,
2016
Recommendation
Throughout history, society has extolled the inventors and innovators who make new discoveries. But science journalist Matt Ridley believes adulation for revered creators such as Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is overblown. He discusses how all ideas and technologies, much like languages, evolve organically from the bottom up in an unplanned, incremental way, and he minimizes individuals’ role in progress. getAbstract recommends Ridley’s lively contrarian presentation to anyone interested in the processes of idea creation, discovery and evolution.
Summary
About the Speaker
Science journalist Matt Ridley, a peer in the British House of Lords, wrote Genome and The Rational Optimist.
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