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What's your equation? (via)
posted on Oct 19, 2007 - View this thread
Edge 2006: What is your dangerous idea?
posted on Jan 1, 2006 - View this thread
The 5th Annual Edge.org Question is: What is your question? Read answers from Brian Greene, Brian Eno, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Howard Gardner, Daniel Dennett, and, yes, Alan Alda (and many others).
posted on Jan 18, 2002 - View this thread
Happiness has zip to do with money. Anyone heard of
Geoffrey Miller? He has v. interesting things to say about the relationship between human nature, money and power. Here, he has another take on global anti-Americanism.
posted on Jan 17, 2002 - View this thread
What Now? is a question answered by a number of a number of scientists and science writers at Edge.org, which asked them to point their vision towards the world to come.
Bruce Sterling assesses the probability of certain outcomes of strife between America and the Middle East.
Richard Dawkins writes about what we stand to lose if we are faced with a new Dark age.
Freeman Dyson offers chilling thoughts regarding his memories of joy while listening to the bombing of London as a teenager in London in 1940. Amongst those, and many other answers are statements
focusing on education, decentralization of resources, the power of consumerism, and a number of technological and social solutions. While it is important to look backwards for reasons, it's just as important to look forward. What will the future bring, and how can we act to shape that future?
posted on Oct 14, 2001 - View this thread