Book · 1959
the two culture and the scientific revolution
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I want to say 1945, but that year strikes me that might be off because that was right after the war. But there's a guy named C. P. Snow who wrote a book called The Two Cultures.
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Ideally it's cultural uh cultural orientation towards new technology and then ideally it's it's education of people learning and kind of uh yeah or you know the CP snow two cultures things.
Marc Andreessen a16z Podcast · Jan 2023 Where and when it comes up
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C.P. Snow is a classic lecture and essay that examines the deep intellectual divide and lack of communication between the sciences and the humanities. On How I Write, David Perell brought up the book to illustrate the growing and problematic division between STEM fields and the humanities. Jane Hirschfield referenced C.P. Snow's work on The Ezra Klein Show when discussing the false binary often perceived between science and artistic fields. On the a16z Podcast, Marc Andreessen invoked the two-cultures concept twice: first while answering how people could address fear of new technology through education and cultural understanding, and later in 2017 to frame the historical divide between the engineering and liberal arts worlds, noting that the author uniquely had a foot in both domains as both a writer and a chemical engineer. Across these different podcast appearances, speakers used the book as a vital touchstone to analyze modern societal gaps, intellectual silos, and the ongoing challenge of bridging technical innovation with liberal arts education for a more unified cultural perspective.
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Marc Andreessen ideally it's cultural uh cultural orientation towards new technology and then ideally it's it's education o… 2
“ideally it's cultural uh cultural orientation towards new technology and then ideally it's it's education of people learning and kind of uh yeah or you know the CP snow two cultures things”
“there was a British writer section SAS actually turned out he was also a chemical engineer so he had a feat in kind of both the engineering and liberal arts worlds name CP snow and he wrote this essay in the 1950s called the two cultures”
David Perell I want to say 1945, but that year strikes me that might be off because that was right after the war. But th… 1
“I want to say 1945, but that year strikes me that might be off because that was right after the war. But there's a guy named C. P. Snow who wrote a book called The Two Cultures.”
Jane Hirschfield CP Snow's book about the two cultures 1
“CP Snow's book about the two cultures”