About Edward de Bono
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was a Maltese physician and commentator. He originated the term lateral thinking, and wrote many books on thinking, including Six Thinking Hats. In 1995, he created a futuristic documentary film, 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono, depicting a lecture to an audience of viewers released from a cryogenic freeze for contemporary society in the year 2040. De Bono invented the L game, which he introduced in his book The Five-Day Course in Thinking. De Bono was awarded honorary degrees from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and the University of Dundee. Asteroid 2541 Edebono discovered by Luboš Kohoutek is named after him.
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