Should there be new categories for Nobel Prize?
Pure inventions is not a good idea. The point of the Nobel Prize is to recognize and reward fields where there is little recognition or reward, yet a lot of importance. Inventions are certainly important. But they are already heavily rewarded, since if you make a great invention, you will make a lot of money selling it. And recognition also goes along with that in many cases. Do we really need to highlight the work of the person who invented the internet (thank you Al Gore) since we all know how important it is without such recognition? So inventions should not qualify for a prize. I doubt Nobel would have wanted a philosophy award since it is not easy to see how that betters humanity. It’s a field for which there are no wrong answers and conflicting viewpoints can have equal merit. How would you pick an idea worth rewarding? How does that idea better society? I’m sure there are people who think that it does. But I don’t see that personally. Environment is a pretty small field (in numb
