EDGE Question 2007: What are you optimistic about? [1]

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Xeni Jardin
[ Sun. Dec. 31. 2006 ]

Each year, John Brockman's EDGE [5] asks a single question for the new year, and publishes the responses online. For 2007: ...

Respondents include many whose work has appeared on Boing Boing before, including: J. Craig Venter [6], Sherry Turkle [7], Danny Hillis [8], Jaron Lanier [9], Rodney Brooks [10], David Gelernter [11], Kevin Kelly [12], Freeman Dyson [13], George Dyson [14], Rudy Rucker [15], Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi [16], Clay Shirky [17], Ray Kurzweil [18], and Clifford Pickover [19].

Link [20] to index.

Several of us from BoingBoing participated: here's [21] Cory's [22] response ("Copying Is What Bits Are For"), here's [23] Pesco's [24] ("We're Recognizing That the World Is a Wunderkammer"), here's [25] mine (" Truth Prevails. Sometimes, Technology Helps.").

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