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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: If the Sun went out, we would gain unexpected benefits in many parts of life.
Chapter 3: The tiny planet from The Little Prince would have astonishing gravitational quirks.
Chapter 4: Six printers could live-update a printed English Wikipedia – but at a huge cost.
Chapter 5: The common cold might vanish if everyone isolated for weeks – but the price is too high.
Chapter 6: If every person had a single random soulmate, the world would be desolate.
Chapter 7: An ordinary cell phone outperforms humanity’s combined processing power – though people excel elsewhere.
Chapter 8: Perfectly guessing every SAT multiple-choice question is essentially impossible.
Chapter 9: Sometime in the 2060s or the 2130s, Facebook will host more dead than living profiles.
Description
In What If? (2014), Randall Munroe presents earnest, thoroughly researched answers to absurd, hypothetical questions in a highly entertaining and digestible format. Munroe serves up the most popular answers from queries he received through his What If? blog, along with a host of new, delightful, mind-bending questions and answers.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical
- Anyone interested the oddities of math, science, and technology
- Any fan of Randall Munroe’s webcomic, xkcd