Powering the Future
October 27, 2011Setting aside the debates about carbon, fossil fuels and global warming, one big question remains, what will humankind do once the oil and coal are all gone?
Setting aside the debates about carbon, fossil fuels and global warming, one big question remains, what will humankind do once the oil and coal are all gone?
Is our access to knowledge at risk? According to Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin, “our society is sequestering knowledge more extensively, rapidly, and thoroughly than any before it in history.” Laughlin will join us this hour to discus his new book “The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind” (Basic Books, 2008).