巫师与先知
The Wizard and the Prophet
Charles C. Mann · 初版 2018 年
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为什么值得读
- 对比技术效率派与减少消耗派的两种未来愿景
- 讲述绿色革命与现代环保主义先驱的真实故事
- 深入剖析黄金大米等农业技术演进历程与争议
介绍了两位颇具影响力的科学家 William Vogt（1902—1968）和 Norman Borlaug（1914—2009），他们截然相反的观点塑造了现代对环境及相关公共政策的认知。
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……安吉拉·陈（Angela Chen）。真的帮我更好地理解了身边的 ace（无性恋）朋友。- 皮特·沃克（Pete Walker）的《复杂性创伤后应激障碍：从苟活到绽放》（Complex PTSD: From surviving to thriving）。帮我从很多造成沉重心理压力的创伤中走出来 - 查尔斯·C·曼恩（Charles C. Mann）的《巫师与先知》（The Wizard and the Prophet）。帮我摆脱了气候变化带来的焦虑症。- W. 蒂莫西·加尔韦（W. Timothy Gallwey）的《网球的内心博弈》（The Inner Game of Tennis）。作为一名前竞技游戏玩家，这本书真正帮我抽离出来……
…Angela Chen. Really helped me understand my ace friends better. - "Complex PTSD: From surviving to thriving" by Pete Walker. Helped me recover from a lot of trauma that was causing me duress - "The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann. Helped me recover from anxiety disorder caused by climate change. - "The Inner Game of Tennis" by W. Timothy Gallwey. As a former competitive gamer, this really helped me step back…
真是个天大的好消息；关于黄金大米以及培育更优质作物的背景过程，我推荐查尔斯·C·曼恩的书《巫师与先知：两位卓越科学家与他们重塑明日世界的对决愿景》（The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World）。故事精彩绝伦，不过黄金大米从实验室走向市场所花费的时间之长简直骇人听闻。
This is fantastic news; for more background on golden rice and the process of making better food, I recommend Charles C. Mann's book The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. It's an amazing story, though the length of time it's taken to get golden rice from the lab to the market has been horrific.
任何正在考虑或打算投身这些技术的人，都非常有必要读读查尔斯·曼恩的《巫师与先知》（The Wizard and the Prophet）。不管你对作者关于石油峰值（Peak Oil）等问题的种种论述怎么看，这本书都非常值得一读，它深入反思了应对我们当前危机的两种截然不同的思路。https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
Anyone thinking about or considering working on these technologies owes it to themselves to read Charles Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet. Whatever you may think of the author's various statements on Peak Oil etc., the book is a worthwhile meditation on two very different approaches to our current crises. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
……对欧亚病毒的免疫力。读《1491》的感觉，就像是一个人第一次接触到中国或日本文明。我还想顺便安利曼恩的第三本书：《巫师与先知》（The Wizard and the Prophet）。https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-... 书中讲述了两个人，他们分别是绿色革命和现代环保运动的教父。第一位是博洛格（Borlaug），一个技术乐观主义者……
…immunity to Eurasian viruses. Reading 1491 is similar to the feeling one might have of encountering Chinese or Japanese civilization for the first time. I would also like to plug a third book from Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet. https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-... It's about two men, the godfathers of the Green Revolution and the modern environmental movement. The first, Borlaug, is a techno-optimist…
《巫师与先知》（The Wizard and the Prophet，强烈推荐，查尔斯·曼恩著）这本书认为，这本质上是一场信仰之争：一方坚信技术能够提高效率，另一方则秉持顺应自然的信念，认为我们必须减少足迹……
The book "The Wizard and the Prophet" (highly recommended, by Charles Mann) argues that this is essentially a battle between faith in technology to become more efficient and the nature-preserving belief that we need to reduce our footprint.…
太棒了——这个我还真不知道。青霉素大概是最著名的例子吧？曼恩的《巫师与先知》和里德利的《创新如何发生》（How Innovation Works）也展示了，这类发现（许多来自不同领域、原本出于其他目的被研究等等）在多年的跨度中如何相互碰撞融合，往往……
Nice one - didn't know that. Penicillin is maybe the most famous example? The Wizard and the Prophet (Mann) and How Innovation Works (Ridley) also show how combinations of these types of discoveries (many of them in different fields, being studied for other purposes, etc.) over multi-year periods often…