The Last Unknowns

**Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of *Thinking, Fast and Slow ** ** *THIS IS A LITTLE BOOK OF PROFOUND QUESTIONS** —unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates, cosmologists, philosophers, economists, prize-winning novelists, religious scholars, and more than 250 leading scientists, artists, and theorists. In *The Last Unknowns, *John Brockman asks innovative thinkers: "What is ‘The Last Question,’* your *last question, the question for which you will be remembered?" Featuring the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of* Guns, Germs, and Steel*   **JARED DIAMOND **• Nobel Prize-winning economist** RICHARD THALER **• Harvard psychologist** STEVEN PINKER **• religion scholar** ELAINE PAGELS **• author of *Seven Brief Lessons on Physics*   ** CARLO ROVELLI **• Booker Prize–winning novelist** IAN McEWAN **• neuroscientist** SAM HARRIS **• philosopher** DANIEL C. DENNETT **• MIT theorist** SHERRY TURKLE **• decoder of the human genome** J. CRAIG VENTER **• Nobel Prize-winning physicist** FRANK WILCZEK **• *New York Times* columnist ** CARL ZIMMER **• *Whole Earth* founder ** STEWART BRAND **• economist** TYLER COWEN **• *Wired* founding editor ** KEVIN KELLY **• Princeton physicist** FREEMAN DYSON **• musician** BRIAN ENO **• Duke economist** DAN ARIELY **• Harvard cosmologist** LISA RANDALL** , and more than 200 others.