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Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Can an increasingly powerful species survive (and overcome) the actions of its most extreme individuals?
Peter Schwartz
Futurist; Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com; Author, Inevitable Surprises
Is the universe relatively simple and comprehensible by the human brain, or is it so complex, higher dimensional and multiversal that it remains forever elusive to humans?
Gino Segre
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania; Author, The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Can the human brain ever fully understand quantum mechanics?
Charles Seife
Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former Journalist, Science Magazine; Author, Virtual Unreality
How can we reap the benefits of the wide and open exchange of data without undermining the values that depend upon the scarcity of information?
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the Salk Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-author (with Patricia Churchland), The Computational Brain
How diverse is life in the universe?
Michael Shermer
Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific American; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University; Author, Heavens on Earth
Would you like to live 1,000 years?
Olivier Sibony
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School; Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris; Guest Lecturer, London Business School
Will we ever find an organization form that brings out the best in people?
Laurence C. Smith
Professor and Chair of Geography; Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA; Author, The World in 2050
Is civilization's demand for water a dividing or unifying force?
Monica L. Smith
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
Why is human communication embedded in the silence of material objects?
Lee Smolin
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn
Why is the acceleration of the expansion of the universe roughly equal to a typical acceleration of a star in a circular orbit in a disk galaxy?
Dan Sperber
Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris; Co-author (with Deirdre Wilson), Meaning and Relevance; and (with Hugo Mercier), The Enigma of Reason
Does romantic love have a biological function?
Maria Spiropulu
Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, Caltech; Founder of AQT/INQNET
Could superintelligence be the purpose of the universe?
Nina Stegeman
Associate Editor, Edge
What would the ability to synthesize creativity do to cultural evolution?
Paul Steinhardt
Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Co-author, Endless Universe
Will the universe observed today someday begin to contract, bounce, and be reborn?
Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction Author, Mirrorshades
Do the laws of physics change with the passage of time?
Stephen J. Stich
Board of Governors Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Why did we acquire our extraordinary human capacity for social learning?
Victoria Stodden
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How do I know the right level of abstraction at which to explain a phenomenon?
Christopher Stringer
Paleoanthropologist; Author, Lone Survivors
Can we ever wean humans off their addiction to religion?
Seirian Sumner
Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London
Will our AI future forms need the natural world?
Leonard Susskind
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford; Author, The Theoretical Minimum series
Is there a design to the laws of physics, or are they the result of chance and the laws of large numbers?
Jaan Tallinn
Co-Founder, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute; Founding Engineer, Skype, Kazaa
Will the behavior of a superintelligent AI be mostly determined by the results of its reasoning about the other superintelligent AIs?
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