Written by Lee Jong Phil

The era of Korean-style genius is over.
This book shows the insight of the writer, Lee Jong Phil, who is Korean physicist, saying, ‘The era of Korean-style genius is over’. The talent of Korean smarties, who understand and remember so well, and accomplish things all by themselves, should not be appreciated any more. It has now become the era of AI. Do you think humans are superior to machines? Not really. There is something else that humans should be responsible for, which is to collect abundant knowledge and information altogether, combine them and create new things to solve problems. In the past, only a few people used to do this kind of work, but now, everyone should be able to do the same. Then, now, what should we do?

The most successful platform to create knowledge - ‘science’
The era of doing great alone by learning and using others’ ideas has gone. Now, what we need is to cooperate each other, collect numerous knowledge and information, combine them and create new theory, new method, and a new ‘thing’.
It was the ‘science’ to successfully carry on this mission historically. The writer as a physicist has made an example of ‘science’, which used to be the most excellent knowledge creation platform in history and has suggested that ‘the attitude toward science’ is necessary element to live in this era. In our society where ‘the attitude toward science’ is rapidly changing, cooperation has become even more important than any other time. Therefore, the attitude toward science is a must-have element and essential knowledge.

The attitude toward science in daily life, NIV and Cooperation beyond borders
The writer has picked two key factors for science. The first is ‘Do not believe others easily and always be skeptical’, and the second is ‘Cooperation beyond borders’. The saying of ‘Do not believe others’ is not to be picky on others. Instead, it means we need to eventually think on our own – not just following others but getting to the conclusion we have thought through. Furthermore, he also mentioned ‘big science’ created by cooperation beyond borders and he emphasized that collective intelligence could achieve anything only through cooperation. Science has been in this way so far and we need to take actions in our daily life based on this attitude.

The insightful message which is somewhat cold but hopeful from a modern Korean physicist
The rapidly changing world since industrial revolution has never been calm down, and it has even accelerated its changes so far. This speedy change is enough to make us dizzy. Nowadays, there are numerous new concepts, which are completely new and cannot be explained compared to others, such as AI, metaverse, Internet of Things, infodemic, etc. Furthermore, the pandemic, which we used to watch in the movie or in a history book, have become reality around us. It becomes difficult to live with the same old familiar concepts we used to insist so far.
Therefore, the writer wants to send his insightful message to people as followings in this cold and hopeful era.

_To old generations who wonder the fundamental paradigm of rapidly changing modern society
_To young generations who face and fight against new era
_To parents who send out their children to this unexpected society