The Wizard and the Prophet
Charles C. Mann, best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493, speaks about his recent book The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World, an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, and their opposed views which shaped how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow’s world.
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Charles C. Mann, a correspondent for The Atlantic, Science, and Wired, has also written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, as well as the TV network HBO and the series Law & Order. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.
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