Origin Summary of Key Points
In ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that promises to change the face of science forever. The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough…one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.