Text Ticker: The adventuresome thinker
When I taught in an American religious history class in grad school, I gave the students an assignment for every class: they had to turn in a couple bits of “adventuresome thinking.” Whenever I said or heard that phrase, I thought of this man, the physicist and writer Freeman Dyson, about whom the Times magazine has a beautiful profile.
… he is an undeterred octogenarian futurist. “I don’t think of myself predicting things,” he says. “I’m expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it’s a question of how badly people want them to. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.”
It focuses mainly on Dyson’s dissent from global warming orthodoxy. [go!]
