"This goes beyond all known schmoozing. This is like some kind of virtual-intellectual conspiracy-in-restraint-of-trade." — Bruce Sterling, "Third Culture Schmoozing"

"The dinner party was a microcosm of a newly dominant sector of American business." — Wired

EDGE Dinner 2006 Attendees:Chris Anderson, Wired; Paula Apsell, NOVA/PBS; Jeff Bezos, Amazon; Adam Bly, Seed; Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation; Sergey Brin, Google; Keith Coleman, Google; Tracy Day, New York Science Fesitval; Daniel C. Dennett (Breaking the Spell); Peter Diamandis, XPrize Foundation; George Dyson (Project Orion); Juan Enriquez, (The United States of America); John Gage (Sun Microsystems); Neil Gershenfeld (Fab); Brian Greene (The Fabric of Reality); Bob Guccione, Jr., Discover; W. Daniel Hillis, Applied Minds; Pati Hillis; Salar Kamangar, Google; Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins; Dean Kamen, Deka Research; David Kirkpatrick, Fortune; Larry Page, Google; Lori Park, Google; Ryan Phelan, DNA Direct; Katinka Matson, Edge; Shannon O'Leary; Steve Petranek, Discover; Lisa Randall (Warped Passages); Tom Rielly, Griot Digital; Michael Shermer (Science Friction); Amy Silveira; Cliff Stoll (The Cuckoo's Egg); Charles Simonyi (Intentsoft); Linda Stone; J. Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute); Anne Wojcicki, Passport Capital