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1998: "Big,
deep and ambitious questions .... breathtaking in scope. Keep
watching
The World Question Center." — New
Scientist (editorial)
[1998]
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"Fantastically
stimulating ... It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking
world.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about
that question." —
BBC Radio 4 [2005] |
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1998
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| "What
Questions Are You Asking Yourself?" |
"A
site that has raised electronic discourse on the Web to a whole
new level.... Genuine learning seems to be going on here."
— Atlantic
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1999
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| "What
Is The Most Important Invention In The Past Two Thousand Years?" |
"...Thoughtful and often surprising
answers ....a fascinating survey of intellectual and creative
wonders of the world ..... Reading them reminds me of how wondrous
our world is." — Bill Gates,
New York Times Syndicated Column
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2000
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| "What
Is Today's Most Important Unreported Story?" |
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"Don't
assume for a second that Ted Koppel, Charlie Rose and the editorial
high command at the New York Times have a handle on all
the pressing issues of the day.... a lengthy list of profound,
esoteric and outright entertaining responses. — San Jose
Mercury News ("Web Site for Intellectuals Inspires Serious
Thinking")
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2001
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| "What
Questions Have Disappeared?" |
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"Responses
to this year's question are deliciously creative... the variety
astonishes. Edge continues to launch intellectual skyrockets
of stunning brilliance. Nobody in the world is doing what Edge
is doing." (Arts & Letters Daily)
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| 2001—9/11 |
| What
Now? |
| "INSPIRED
ARENA: Edge has been bringing together the world's foremost scientific
thinkers since 1998, and the response to September 11 was measured
and uplifting."
(The Sunday Times) |
| 2002 |
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"What's
Your Question?" |
| Brockman's
thinkers of the "Third Culture," whether they, like
Dawkins, study evolutionary biology at Oxford or, like Alan Alda,
portray scientists on Broadway, know no taboos. Everything is
permitted, and nothing is excluded from this intellectual game.
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) |
| 2003 |
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"What
are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world,
and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?"
— GWB |
"At
the end of every year, John Brockman, a literary agent and the
publisher of Edge.org, a Web site devoted to science, poses
a question to leading scientists, writers and futurists. In
2002, he asked respondents to imagine that they had been nominated
as White House science adviser and that President Bush had sought
their answer to "What are the pressing scientific issues for
the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can
begin to deal with them?" Here are excerpts of some of the responses."
(The New York Times Op-Ed Page)
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2004
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| "What's
Your Law?" |
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Heisenberg
has one, and so do Boyle and Maxwell: A scientific principle,
law or rule with their moniker attached....It isn't every day
that a researcher discovers the uncertainty principle, an ideal
gas law, or the mathematical structure of electromagnetism.
And ours is the era of real-estate moguls, phone companies and
others slapping their name on every building,
stadium and arena in sight...So, John Brockman, a New York literary
agent, writer and impresario of the online salon Edge, figures
it is time for more scientists
to get in on the whole naming thing. (Wall Sreet Journal
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2005
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"WHAT
DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?"
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God
(or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a
Leap: Fourteen scientists ponder everything from string theory
to true love. (New York Times)
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2006 |
"WHAT
IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?"
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The
Earth can cope with global warming, schools should
be banned and we should learn to love bacteria. These
are among the dangerous ideas revealed by a poll of
leading thinkers. (Telegraph)
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2007 |
"WHAT
ARE YOU OPTIMISTC ABOUT"
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...You
might think scientists would be the optimistic exception
here. Science, after all, furnishes the model for progress,
based as it is on the gradual and irreversible growth of
knowledge. At the end of last year, Edge.org,
an influential scientific salon, posed the questions "What
are you optimistic about? Why?" to a wide
range of thinkers. Some 160 responses have now been posted
at the Web site. As you might expect, there is a certain
amount of agenda-battling, and more than a whiff of optimism
bias..... The most general grounds for optimism
offered by these thinkers, though, is that big-picture
pessimism so often proves to be unfounded. The perennial
belief that our best days are behind us is, it seems, perennially
wrong. (New York Times Magazine)
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