The following commentary is based on the keynote speech Professor Lord Martin Rees,the United Kingdom’s Astronomer Royal,presented at Engineering in an Unpredictable World:The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in L...The following commentary is based on the keynote speech Professor Lord Martin Rees,the United Kingdom’s Astronomer Royal,presented at Engineering in an Unpredictable World:The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in London on 18 September 2019.This and other talks at the Summit are available to watch at:https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/partnerships/international-policy-and-development/ggcs/2019/welcome/on-demand-2.Based at the University of Cambridge,Lord Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist,a philosopher of science,and a former President of the Royal Society.Besides his countless scientific papers,Lord Rees has written a wide range of books,from academic texts to best-selling popular science.The content of Lord Rees’s speech was drawn from his most recent book,On the Future:Prospects for Humanity,published in 2018[1].A Chinese translation of the book will be available in 2020.展开更多
文摘The following commentary is based on the keynote speech Professor Lord Martin Rees,the United Kingdom’s Astronomer Royal,presented at Engineering in an Unpredictable World:The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in London on 18 September 2019.This and other talks at the Summit are available to watch at:https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/partnerships/international-policy-and-development/ggcs/2019/welcome/on-demand-2.Based at the University of Cambridge,Lord Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist,a philosopher of science,and a former President of the Royal Society.Besides his countless scientific papers,Lord Rees has written a wide range of books,from academic texts to best-selling popular science.The content of Lord Rees’s speech was drawn from his most recent book,On the Future:Prospects for Humanity,published in 2018[1].A Chinese translation of the book will be available in 2020.
