Vild Verden

by Tor Nørretranders

233 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 2010

About the author

Tor Nørretranders is a Danish author of popular science. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in popular science. He introduced the notion of exformation (explicitly discarded information) in his book The User Illusion.


Academic background:
cand.techn.soc. (M.Sc.) from Roskilde University 1982 (philosophy and sociology of science applied to socio-economic planning). Academically employed at Technical University of Denmark (1982-83), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1990-91), Risø National Laboratory (1993). Director of the Mindship Foundation (1995-96). Adjunct Professor of the Philosophy of Science at Copenhagen Business School from 2003.

Journalistic background:
Science writer at leading Copenhagen daily and weekly newspapers (Information, Weekendavisen, Børsens Nyhedsmagasin, Politiken) and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Danmarks Radio), hosting the tv-show “Hvælv”. Received the non-fiction prize of the Danish Writers Union, 1985, and the publicist prize of of the Danish Publicist Club, 1988.

Reviews

[Kenneth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aldeles fantastisk og vel-research’et lille bog. Den giver et fantastisk overblik over landbrugets historie, og ikke mindst hvordan alt liv på kloden er en del af et stort og konstant - men begrænset - flow af atomer. Den burde være pensum i folkeskolen!