I don’t think that’s the case. Most people who are listened to on the future don’t tend to speak to an audience primarily
consisting of futurists.
This is a very important and general point. While it is important to communicate ideas to a general audience, generally excessive communication to general audiences at the expense of communication to peers should be “bad news” when it comes to evaluating experts. Folks like Witten mostly just get work done, they don’t write popular science books.
I mean Edward Witten, one of the most prominent physicists alive. The fact that his name does not ring a bell is precisely my point. The names that do ring a bell are the names of folks who are “good at the media,” not necessarily folks who are the best in their field.
Witten is one of the greatest physicists alive, if not the greatest. He is the one who unified the various string theories into M-theory. He is also the only physicist to receive a Fields Medal.
This is a very important and general point. While it is important to communicate ideas to a general audience, generally excessive communication to general audiences at the expense of communication to peers should be “bad news” when it comes to evaluating experts. Folks like Witten mostly just get work done, they don’t write popular science books.
Witten doesn’t ring a bell with me. Googling the name might mean Edward Witten and Tarynn Madysyn Witten. Do you mean either or them or someone else?
I mean Edward Witten, one of the most prominent physicists alive. The fact that his name does not ring a bell is precisely my point. The names that do ring a bell are the names of folks who are “good at the media,” not necessarily folks who are the best in their field.
Okay, given that the subject is theoretical physics and I’m not much into that field I understand why I have no recognition.
When looking at his Wikipedia I see he made Time 100 so it still might be worth knowing the name.
Witten is one of the greatest physicists alive, if not the greatest. He is the one who unified the various string theories into M-theory. He is also the only physicist to receive a Fields Medal.