When you’re in a bubble, you inhabit a form of fictional reality, and we’ve seen the dangerous consequences of this in financial bubbles, stock market bubbles, real estate bubbles… If you’re not paying attention reality comes crashing in. Science sees far beyond our human blind spots, and the reaches of this ‘ bubble’ our senses create for us. Our senses allow us to perceive, but they’re incredibly limited.
What’s more interesting however, is when you look at human perceptual bubbles. I would never have expected that there would be people dining in bubbles or spending time in social isolation bubbles. : Especially with Covid-19, people have become very familiar with bubbles. We explore our civilisational blind spots, how they shape our society – and how we collectively remain blind to some of the most important aspects of our world. We talk about our biology and how technology is revealing a world beyond our senses. In this exclusive interview, I speak to Ziya Tong about humanity’s biggest blind spots. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating, and deeply humane, The Reality Bubble gives voice to the sense we’ve all had - that there is more to the world than meets the eye. This vitally important new book shows how science, and the curiosity that drives it, can help civilization flourish by opening our eyes to the landscape laid out before us. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.
Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. Tong also hosted the CBC’s Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS’ national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW. She anchored Daily Planet, Discovery Channel’s flagship science programme, until its final season in 2018. Ziya Tong serves on the Board of the WWF, and is Vice Chair of WWF Canada. In her new book, The Reality Bubble she takes a ground-breaking look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected, dangerous and profound ways. Ziya Tong is one of the world’s most engaging science journalists.
0 kommentar(er)
