Description:
From genetics to cosmology to nanotechnology, science is on the brink of numerous and extraordinary mega-revolutions that will change the very nature of life. Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate many of today's fundamental issues. Top experts look back at the last millennium and the thinking processes that simultaneously built civilization and spread devastation to look for lessons to guide us through the next thousand years. Joining host Robert Kuhn are creativity pioneer Edward de Bono; futurist Graham T.T. Molitor; planetary scientist Bruce Murray; artificial intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum; and best-selling author and surgeon Sherwin Nuland.
Speaker(s):
Bruce Murray, professor of planetary science and geology, California Institute of Technology; former director, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory; co-founder/president, The Planetary Society
Edward de Bono, creativity pioneer
Edward Feigenbaum, professor of computer science at Stanford where he is co-scientific director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Graham T.T. Molitor, vice president and legal counsel,The World Future Society; president of Public Policy Forecasting
Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery,Yale University; medical history and bioethics teacher, Yale University
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Ph.D., UCLA; Closer to Truth host
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