Looking into the Future, a Little: the Edge's Survey for 2008

JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post  465

This is a list of wide-thinking thinkers ideas about revolutionary scientific changes will come in the next 20-50 years, an outline list of the author and subjects appearing below.  There are 157 entries, and I’ve included a link to the full text HERE so that the full entry can be read.  I haven’t read them all—the full text runs about 150k words—though what I’ve picked around so far looks not terribly inspired in spite of the high-pop value of the assembly.  I think that if you placed yourself back in time somewhat and viewed these from a 1980’s mindset (and upping the 20-50 year timeframe to 40-70 years) the ideas start to look very sharp.  But we aren’t in the ‘80’s and the ideas for the most part aren’t very big, and some of them (I hate to say) are just goofy (and some of these come tagged along some very big names). A bit on the project is taken from Newsweek, below  

I've also constructed a Wordle of the entire document to see if anything interesting popped out, though the secret of interest remained hidden.

NEWSWEEK  Crystal-Ball Time  Newsweek, 31 december 2008  By Sharon Begley

Every December the online intellectual salon called Edge, presided over by literary agent John Brockman, asks a select (virtual) assembly of scientists to ponder a question, such as what they are optimistic about (2007), what "dangerous" ideas they have (2006) and what they believe is true but cannot prove (2005). As the bell tolls on 2008 and rings in 2009, Edge is unveiling this year’s: "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"

*KEVIN KELLY
Editor-At-Large, Wired; Author, New Rules for the New Economy
A NEW KIND OF MIND
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*HOWARD GARDNER
Psychologist, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Five Minds for
the Future
CRACKING OPEN THE LOCKBOX OF TALENT
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TIMOTHY TAYLOR
Archaeologist, University of Bradford; Author, The Buried Soul
CULTURE
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JOHN GOTTMAN
Psychologist; Founder of Gottman Institute; Author (with Julie Gottman),
And Baby Makes Three
LABORATORY EARTH COLONIES
_____

ED REGIS
Science Writer, Author, What Is Life?
MOLECULAR MANUFACTURING
_____

*DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Get Back in the Box
THE DISCOVERY OF INTELLIGENT LIFE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
_____

JUAN ENRIQUEZ
CEO, Biotechonomy; Founding Director, Harvard Business School's Life
Sciences Project; Author, The Untied States of America
HOMO EVOLUTIS
_____

ROGER C. SCHANK
Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for Education Inc.; Author,
Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own
WISDOM REBORN
_____

STUART KAUFFMAN
Director, The Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, The University
of Calgary; Author, Reinventing the Sacred
THE OPEN UNIVERSE
_____

*KARL SABBAGH
Writer and Television Producer; Author, The Riemann Hypothesis
A FAREWELL TO HARM
_____

MARC D. HAUSER
Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author, Moral Minds
THE ACTUAL, THE POSSIBLE, AND THE UNIMAGINABLE
_____

RODNEY BROOKS
Roboticist, on leave from MIT, co-founder of iRobot, CTO and Chairman of
Heartland Robotic, author, Flesh and Machines
LIFE (OR NOT) ON MARS
_____

MARCELO GLEISER
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College; Author, The
Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World
MASTERING DEATH
_____

*NICK BOSTROM
Philosopher, University of Oxford; Editor, Human Enhancement
SUPERINTELLIGENCE
_____

WILLIAM CALVIN
Neuroscientist, University of Washington School of Medicine; Author,
Global Fever
CLIMATE WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
_____

*CHRIS ANDERSON
Curator, TED Conference
A WEB-EMPOWERED REVOLUTION IN TEACHING
_____

GREGORY PAUL
Independent Researcher; Author, Dinosaurs of the Air
THE FIRST MAJOR UPGRADE OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AND THE MIND IT GENERATES SINCE
THE PLEISTOCENE
_____

GEORGE DYSON
Science Historian; Author, Darwin Among the Machines
INTERSTELLAR VIRUSES
_____

*MICHAEL SHERMER
Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American;
Author, The Mind of the Market
ENERGY AND ECONOMICS: THE ROAD TO CIVILIZATION 1.0
_____

DANIEL L. EVERETT
Chair of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Professor of Linguistics and
Anthropology, Illinois State University; Author, Don't Sleep, There Are
Snakes
UNDOING BABYLON
_____

THOMAS METZINGER
Philosopher, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study);
Author, The Ego Tunnel
SOUL-TRAVEL FOR SELFLESS BEING
_____

*JESSE BERING
Psychologist, Director, Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queens
University, Belfast
GOD NEEDN'T ACTUALLY EXIST TO HAVE EVOLVED
_____

RICHARD FOREMAN
Founder Director, Ontological-Hysteric Theater; Playwright
NOTHING WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
_____

*CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER
Science Writer, Author, Archimedes to Hawking
PROOF OF THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS
_____

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Psychologist, London School of Economics; Author, Seeing Red
WHY HUMAN NATURE WILL REBEL
_____

*FREEMAN DYSON
Physicist, Institute of Advanced Studies; Author, The Scientist as Rebel
"RADIOTELEPATHY", THE DIRECT COMMUNICATION OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHT FROM
BRAIN TO BRAIN
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IAN MCEWAN
Novelist; Author, On Chesil Beach
THE FULL FLOURISHING OF SOLAR TECHNOLOGY
_____

IRENE PEPPERBERG
Psychologist, Research Associate, Harvard University; Author, Alex and Me
THINKING SMALL: UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN
_____

*HAIM HARARI
Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science; Author, A View
from the Eye of the Storm
AT LAST: TECHNOLOGY WILL CHANGE EDUCATION
_____

*PAUL J. STEINHARDT
Physicist; Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Princeton University;
Coauthor, Endless Universe
BLACK HOLES: THE ULTIMATE GAME-CHANGER?
_____

*MARK PAGEL
Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, England; External Professor,
Santa Fe Institute, NM
WE ARE LEARNING TO MAKE PHENOTYPES
_____

BRIAN GOODWIN
Biologist, Schumacher College, Devon, UK; Author, How The Leopard Changed
Its Spots
THE ORGANISM ITSELF AS THE EMERGENT MEANING
_____

CARLO ROVELLI
Physicist, Université de la Mediterrané (Marseille, France); Author,
Quantum Gravity
AND IF THE BIG CHANGE DIDN'T ARRIVE?
_____

**JONATHAN HAIDT
Psychologist, University of Virginia; Author, The Happiness Hypothesis
FASTER EVOLUTION MEANS MORE ETHNIC DIFFERENCES
_____

*ANDY CLARK
Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist, University of Edinburgh; Author,
Supersizing the Mind
CELEBRATORY SELF RE-ENGINEERING
_____

LEO CHALUPA
Ophthalmologist and Neurobiologist, University of California, Davis
CONTROLLING BRAIN PLASTICITY
_____

LAURENCE C. SMITH
Professor of Geography and Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
WEST ANTARCTICA AND SEVEN OTHER SLEEPING GIANTS
_____

*ALISON GOPNIK
Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Scientist in the Crib
NEVER-ENDING CHILDHOOD
_____

JOHN D. BARROW
Physicist, Director, Millennium Mathematics Project, Cambridge; Author,
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
A VERY VERY GOOD BATTERY

[This did not actually appear.]
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*LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Physicist, Director, Origins Initiative, Arizona State University; Author,
Hiding in the Mirror
THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGAINST A CIVILIAN POPULATION
_____

STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER
Biologist; Climatologist, Stanford University; Author, Laboratory Earth
CONSERVING THE CLIMATE: WILL GREENLAND'S MELTING ICE THE DEAL?
_____

*AUBREY DE GREY
Gerontologist; Chairman & Chief Science Officer. the Methuselah
Foundation; Author, Ending Aging
THE UNMASKING OF TRUE HUMAN NATURE
_____

*DONALD D. HOFFMAN
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence
THE LAPTOP QUANTUM COMPUTER
_____

JAMES J. O'DONNELL
Classicist; Provost, Georgetown University; Author, The Ruin of the Roman
Empire
AFRICA
_____

GREGORY BENFORD
Novelist; Co-founder & Chairman, Genescient' Author, The Sunborn
LIVE TO 150
_____

*STEVE NADIS
Science writer; Contributing Editor, Astronomy Magazine
DISCOVERING ANOTHER UNIVERSE IN OUR UNIVERSE
_____

BARRY SMITH
Director, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of
London
LITTLE CHANGES MAKE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE
_____

*SUSAN BLACKMORE
Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction
ARTIFICIAL, SELF-REPLICATING MEME MACHINES
_____

*KENNETH W. FORD
Retired Physicist & Writer; Coauthor (with John Archibald Wheeler), Geons,
Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics, and Quantum Foam: A Life
in Physics
READING MINDS
_____

ERNST PÖPPEL
Neuroscientist, Chairman, Human Science Center and Department of Medical
Psychology, Munich University; Author, Mindworks
FUTURE AS PRESENT. A FINAL EXPERIMENT
_____

CHARLES SEIFE
Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly journalist, Science
magazine; Author, Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea
MALTHUSIAN INFORMATION FAMINE
_____

*GINO SEGRÈ
Physicist, University of Pennsylvania; Author: Faust In Copenhagen: A
Struggle for the  Soul of Physics
THE EXISTENCE OF ADDITIONAL SPACE-TIME DIMENSIONS
_____

STEVEN PINKER
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University;
Author, The Stuff of Thought
IF YOU INSIST: PERSONAL GENOMICS?
_____

LEWIS WOLPERT
Professor of Biology, University College; Author, Six Impossible Things To
Do Before Breakfast
COMPUTING THE EMBRYO
_____

STEPHON H. ALEXANDER
Associate Professor of Physics, Haverford College
ON BASKETBALL AND SCIENCE CAMPS
_____

ROBERT R. PROVINE
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter
WHAT CHANGES ANYTHING?
_____

ALAN ALDA
Actor, writer, director, and host of PBS program "Scientific American
Frontiers."
ROUNDING AN ENDLESS VICIOUS CIRCLE
_____

GERALD HOLTON
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science,
Emeritus, at Harvard University; Coeditor, Einstein for the 21st Century:
His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture
DEPLOYMENT OF A SIGNIFICANT ROGUE NUCLEAR DEVICE
_____

*DAVID DALRYMPLE
Student, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; Researcher, Internet 0, Fab Lab
Thinner Clients for South Africa, Conformal Computing
ESCAPING THE GRAVITY WELL
_____

*KEITH DEVLIN
Mathematician; Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford; Author, The Unfinished Game
THE MOBILE PHONE
_____

*FRANK J. TIPLER
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Author, The Physics
of Christianity
BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED
_____

TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI
Computational Neuroscientist, Salk Institute, Coauthor, The omputational
Brain
COMPUTERS ARE THE NEW MICROSCOPES
_____

HELEN FISHER
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University;
Author, Why We Love
HIDDEN PERSUADERS '09
_____

*LERA BORODITSKY
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Symbolic Systems,
Stanford University
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW WE KNOW WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
_____

*TOR NØRRETRANDERS
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The Generous Man
INSIDE OUT: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EVERYTHING
_____

EMANUEL DERMAN
Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Principal, Prisma
Capital Partners; Former Head, Quantitative Strategies Group, Equities
Division, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Author, My Life as a Quant
NO MORE TIME DECAY
_____

*GREGORY COCHRAN
Consultant, Adaptive Optics; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University
of Utah; Coauthor, The 10,000 Year Explosion
BETTER MEASUREMENTS
_____

HOWARD RHEINGOLD
Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY
_____

*BRIAN KNUTSON
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford University
NEUROPHENOMICS + TARGETED STIMULATION = PSYCHOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION?
_____

ERIC DREXLER
Researcher; Policy Advocate; Author, Engines of Creation
KNOWLEDGE SPREADING
_____

*NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS
Physician and social scientist, Harvard
THE ANTHROPOSPHERE
_____

NEIL GERSHENFELD
Physicist, MIT; Author, FAB
THE RE-IMPLEMENTATION OF LIFE IN ENGINEERED MATERIALS
_____

*ANTON ZEILINGER
University of Vienna and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics
and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
THE BREAKDOWN OF ALL COMPUTERS
_____

*YOCHAI BENKLER
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Author, The
Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
RECOMBINATIONS OF THE NEAR POSSIBLE
_____

*PAUL DAVIES
Physicist, Arizona State University; Director, Beyond; Author, The Cosmic
Jackpot
SHADOW BIOSPHERE
_____

STEWART BRAND
Founder, Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder; The Well; cofounder, Global
Business Network; Author, How Buildings Learn
CLIMATE
_____

DAVID G. MYERS
Social psychologist, Hope College; author A Friendly Letter to Skeptics
and Athiests
INEXPENSIVE, CUSTOMIZABLE, INTERACTIVE e-TEXTS FOR WORLDWIDE USE
_____

*MARTIN SELIGMAN
Psychologist; Director, the Positive Psychology Center, University of
Pennsylvania; Author, Learned Optimism
MUCH SMARTER PEOPLE
_____

MAX TEGMARK
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Member, Scientific
Directorate, Foundational Questions Institute
ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR WAR
_____

*STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN
Dean of Social Science, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology Harvard
University; Author, Wet Mind
LEVERAGING DIFFERENCES
_____

*LEE SMOLIN
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, The Trouble With Physics
THE LIBERATION OF TIME
_____

MARTI HEARST
Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information; Author, Search
User Interfaces
THE DECLINE OF TEXT
_____

APRIL GORNIK
Artist, New York City; Danese Gallery
ANIMAL FEELINGS
_____

***JOEL GARREAU
New America Foundation fellow; Washington Post Staff Writer; Author,
Radical Evolution
THE ERUPTION OF NEW RELIGIONS SHAPED BY UPHEAVAL
_____

*RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Biologist; Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project; Author A New Science
of Life
THE CREDIT CRUNCH FOR MATERIALISM
_____

ROGER HIGHFIELD
Editor, New Scientist; Coauthor, After Dolly
STAR POWER
_____

ALUN ANDERSON
Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of
New Scientist)
GREEN OIL
_____

PATRICK BATESON
Professor of Ethology, Cambridge University; Author Design for a Life
ADOPTING RATIONALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
_____

*DAVID GELERNTER
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds
Technologies; Author, Drawing Life
TRACKS & CLUSTERS
_____

MONICA NARULA
Artist, New Dehli; Member, Raqs Media Collective; Co-Initiator, Sarai.net
THE LENGTHENING LIFE-SPANS OF INDIVIDUALS SHADOWED BY THE SHORTENING
LIFE-SPANS OF SPECIES

[This did not actually appear.]
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ERIC FISCHL
Artist, New York City; Mary Boone Gallery
EMPATHY
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TERENCE KOH
Artist, New York City; Saatchi Gallery
UNTITLED
_____

MARCEL KINSBOURNE, M.D.
Neurologist & Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Coauthor,
Children's Learning and Attention Problems
NEUROCOSMETICS
_____

*MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI [Or, Mike C. Mike]
Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont
Graduate University; Author, Flow
THE END OF ANALYTIC SCIENCE
_____

DIMITAR SASSELOV
Astrophysicist, Harvard
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY WITH INTER-PLANETARY REACH
_____

*ROBERT SHAPIRO
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist, New York University;
author Planetary Dreams.
A SEPARATE ORIGIN FOR LIFE
_____

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Epistemologist of Randomness and Applied Statistician; Author, The Black
Swan
THE IDEA OF NEGATIVE AND IATROGENIC SCIENCE
_____

PETER SCHWARTZ
Futurist, Business Strategist; Cofounder. Global Business Network, a
Monitor Company; Author, Inevitable Surprises
NEURONALLY EXPRESSED MESSAGES
_____

*HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London
NEW STRUCTURES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
_____

*BRIAN ENO
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Talking Heads, Paul Simon;
Recording Artist
THE FEELING THAT THINGS ARE INEVITABLY GOING TO GET WORSE
_____

*SETH LLOYD
Quantum Mechanical Engineer, MIT; author, Programming the Universe
UNDO THE PRESENT; RECALL THE PAST
_____

MAHZARIN R. BANAJI
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology,
Harvard University
UNDERSTANDING THE MIND
_____

JOHN TOOBY & LEDA COSMIDES
Co-Directors, The Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of
California, Santa Barbara; Co-Editors: The Adapted Mind
THE GREAT PIVOT: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES, NATIVE INTELLIGENCES, AND THE
BRIDGE BETWEEN
_____

*DANIEL C. DENNETT
Philosopher; University Professor, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive
Studies, Tufts University; Author, Breaking the Spell
THIS VERY EXPLORATION IS CHANGING EVERYTHING
_____

SHERRY TURKLE
Psychologist, MIT; author, Evocative Objects
THE ROBOTIC MOMENT
_____

DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER
Artist; Paris, France; Tate Museum
RESIZING
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*AUSTIN DACEY
Philosopher; Author, The Secular Conscience
CARNICULTURE
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STEFANO BOERI
Architect, teaching at Politecnico of Milan, visiting professor at Harvard
GSD, editor in chief of the Abitare monthly/magazine
DISCOVERING THAT SOMEONE FROM THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY COME TO VISIT US

[This did not actually appear.]
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KAI KRAUSE
Software pioneer; author I think...there...4am!
EVERYTHING...ALREADY CHANGED!
_____

*RANDOLPH NESSE
Psychiatrist, University of Michigan; coauthor, Why We Get Sick
RECOGNIZING THAT THE BODY IS NOT A MACHINE
_____

W. DANIEL HILLIS
Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The
Pattern on the Stone
A FOREBRAIN FOR THE WORLD MIND
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MARCO IACOBONI
Neuroscientist, UCLA Brain Mapping Center; author, Mirroring People
IMMORTAL COGNITION, BOUNDLESS HAPPINESS
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LISA RANDALL
Physicist, Harvard University; author, Warped Passages
COORDINATED AND EXPANDED COMPUTATIONAL POWER WILL CHANGE SCIENCE
_____

PAUL SAFFO
Technology forecaster
DISCOVERY (OR CREATION) OF NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE CURES HUMANKIND'S
EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS
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ERIC KANDEL
Biochemist and University Professor, Columbia University; Recipient, The
Nobel Prize, 2000; author, In Search of Memory
BIOLOGICAL MARKERS FOR MENTAL ILLNESS
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*J. CRAIG VENTER
Genome Scientist, J. Craig Venter Institute, author A Life Decoded
DNA, WRITING THE SOFTWARE OF LIFE
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*FRANK WILCZEK
Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, The
Lightness of Being
HOMESTEADING IN HILBERT SPACE
_____

SAM HARRIS
Neuroscientist; Chairman, The Reason Project; Author, Letter to a
Christian Nation
TRUE LIE DETECTION
_____

*DAVID M. BUSS
Psychologist, University of Texas at Austin; Author of The Murderer Next
Door
EXPLOITABILITY
_____

*IAN WILMUT
Chair of Reproductive Biology, Director Scottish Centre for Regenerative
Medicine; Author, After Dolly
THE NEXT STEP IN HUMAN HEALTHCARE?
_____

OLIVER MORTON
Chief News and Features Editor, Nature; Author, Eating the Sun
ATTEMPTS AT GEOENGINEERING
_____

MARIA SPIROPULU
Physicist, CERN (Large Hadron Collider)
TWO GRAND REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
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*DAN SPERBER
Social and cognitive scientist; Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Paris;
Author, Rethinking Symbolism
THE GROWING PERCEPTION OF A CLASH BETWEEN SAFETY AND LIBERTY
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TINO SEHGAL
Artist, Berlin; Marion Goodman Gallery
A DIFFERENT KIND OF MALE SUBJECTIVITY
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*COREY S. POWELL
Editor in Chief, Discover magazine
EXPECTATIONS
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GARY MARCUS
Cognitive Scientist,, New York University; Author, Kluge
DECODING THE BRAIN
_____

PHILIPPE PARRENO
Artist, Paris; Friedrich Petzel Gallery
NO MORE REALITY!
_____

BART KOSKO
Information Scientist, USC; Author, Noise
CHEAP CRYONIC SUSPENSION OF BRAINS
_____

*DAVID BERREBY
Science Writer; Author, Us and Them
POST-RATIONAL ECONOMIC MAN
_____

*A. GARRETT LISI
Independent Theoretical Physicist; Author, "An Exceptionally Simple Theory
of Everything"
CHANGES IN THE CHANGERS
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DAVID EAGLEMAN
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; Author,
Sum
SILICON IMMORTALITY: DOWNLOADING CONSCIOUSNESS INTO COMPUTERS
_____

*ALEXANDER VILENKIN
L. and J. Bernstein Professor in Evolutionary Science; Director, Institute
of Cosmology, Tufts University; Author, Many Worlds in One
AVOIDING DOOMSDAY
_____

*VERENA HUBER-DYSON
Mathematician, Emeritus Professor, Dept of Philosophy, University of
Calgary; Author, Gödel's Theorems
HORIZONS BEYOND THE REACH OF BOOLEAN LOGIC, DIGITAL MANIPULATIONS AND
NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS
_____

*ROBERT SAPOLSKY
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv
PEOPLE WHO CAN INTUIT IN SIX-DIMENSIONS
_____

*BRUCE PARKER
Physical Oceanographer, Stevens Institute of Technology
THE SUCCESSOR TO NATURAL SELECTION IN HUMANS
_____

JAMES GEARY
Former Europe editor, Time Magazine; Author, Geary's Guide to the World's
Great Aphorists
BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE (BMI)
_____

*DAVID BODANIS
Writer; Consultant; Author, Passionate Minds
MASSIVE TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURE
_____

ANDRIAN KREYE
Arts & Ideas Editor, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
A NEW APPROACH TO ENERGY PRODUCTION
_____

JAMSHED BHARUCHA
Professor of Psychology, Provost, Senior Vice President, Tufts University
THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF BRAINS
_____

DANIEL GOLEMAN
Psychologist; Author, Ecological Intelligence
WHY DON'T RUNNING SHOES BIODEGRADE?
_____

*BETSY DEVINE
Blogger: Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiar
HAPPINESS
_____

CHRISTINE FINN
Archaeologist, Journalist; Author, Artifacts
OUR BRAVE NEW MAP OF THE WORLD
_____

*GLORIA ORIGGI
CNRS, Paris
THE AGE OF REPUTATION
_____

*SCOTT SAMPSON
Research Curator, Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah;
Host, Dinosaur Planet TV Series.
EVOLUTION CHANGES EVERYTHING
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PAUL EWALD
Professor of Biology, Amherst College; Author, Evolution of Infectious
Disease
SCANNING FOR THE NONHUMAN IN HUMANS
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**HENRY HARPENDING
Thomas Chair, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropolgy,
University of Utah; Coauthor, The 10,000 Year Explosion
A LIVELY GAMETE MARKET
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P.Z. MYERS
Biologist, University of Minnesota; blogger, Pharyngula
A CHANGE IN WHO WE ARE
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*DEAN ORNISH, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Author, The Spectrum
OUR GENES ARE NOT OUR FATE
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KEVIN SLAVIN
Digital Technologist; Managing Director, Co-Founder, area/code
THE EBB OF MEMORY
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RICHARD DAWKINS
Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, University of
Oxford
BREAKING THE SPECIES BARRIER

 

Comments

[Jeff]

I read a few. Freeman Dyson's was interesting but ultimately disappointing. I mean, he's right ... radiotelepathy would radically change things ... but humans can not adequately handle human experience now. The idea of complicating it doesn't seem to offer improvement ... merely change. But in the interest of full disclosure, I have to say that I haven't yet found the Internet to be an improvement in my life ... merely change.