THE DISCREET CHARM OF SCIENCE As we read on the site guided and animated by John Brockman, Edge's demand for 2012 has been designed by Steven Pinker, psychologist and cognitive scientist, and was discussed with Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and George Dyson. [1]

And the answers do not disappoint. In fact, reinforce, if proof were still needed the deep sense of cultural path Edge: breaking the walls that traditionally separate scientific specialties and interdisciplinary approach to research in this time of great change, not only preference intellectual or fashionable slogan, but real preconditions for an exploration of the very sources of innovative knowledge.