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2018 : WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION? [1]

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Alison Gopnik [5]
Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter
The Last Question

 

How can the few pounds of grey goo between our ears let us make utterly surprising, completely unprecedented, and remarkably true discoveries about the world around us, in every domain and at every scale, from quarks to quasars?

 

   

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[1] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-is-the-last-question
[2] https://www.edge.org/inthenews/what-is-the-last-question
[3] https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-is-the-last-question
[4] https://www.edge.org/responses/what-is-the-last-question
[5] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/alison_gopnik