About the book: 2011 / More than a hundred leading intellectuals of the world share their untested hypotheses, which in the near future may become obvious truth for us. In short essays covering a variety of topics—consciousness, evolution, extraterrestrial life, the future of humanity, the fate of the universe—the authors offer unexpected, passionate, sometimes eccentric, and always thought-provoking ideas related to their scientific disciplines. Many of these world-famous names are also familiar to Russian readers: Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Martin Rees, John Horgan, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Gary Marcus.