TEXTO:
The power of BIG IDEAS
What changed the course of human events most
profoundly? It wasn’t a general at battle, emperor
or president or assassin, as the historians hold. It
was more likely... well, clocks or the thermos bottle
[5] or writing. It was, in other words, a technological
invention, according to 80-plus scholars gathered in
the electronic salon called Edge (www.edge.org). Last
November, literary agent and author John Brockman,
who presides over Edge, asked scientists and other
[10] thinkers to nominate the most important invention of
the last 2,000 years.
Together, the nominations make a strong
case that how we think, and the social and political
institutions we create, are products of the science and
[15] technology we invent.
BEGLEY, Sharon. The power of big ideas. Speak up, São Paulo, ano 12, n. 147, p. 6, ago. [2019].
According to the text, scholars got together in Edge in order to decide the inventions of great influence
