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"In the late summer of 2007 he [Brockman] hosted the now legendary symposium 'Life: What a Concept!' at his farm in Connceticut. This was where six pioneers of science had jointly proclaimed a new era: After the decyphering of the human genome soon whole genomes sequences could be written. That would be the beginning of the age of biology." |
"The optimistic visions of several of Mr. Brockman's Net-savvy essayists seem not just wonderful but plausible." |
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"These are thoughts to make jaws drop...Nobody at Eastover Farm seemed afraid of a eugenic revival. What in German circles would have released violent controversies, here drifts by unopposed under mighty maple trees that gently whisper in the breeze." |
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"Provocative ideas put forward today by leading figures." |
"The splendidly enlightened Edge website (www.edge.org) has rounded off each year of inter-disciplinary debate by asking its heavy-hitting contributors to answer one question. I strongly recommend a visit." |
"What is the coolest online forum, one where scientists and great minds from all over the world exchange opinions and ideas, and the one that keeps the scientific debate alive? Almost certainly it’s edge.org, an American website whose most ardent supporters...are changing the present vision of the universe. This where you’ll run into debates that count." |
"A remarkable feast of the intellect... an amazing group of reflections on science, culture, and the evolution of ideas. Reading the Edge question is like being invited to dinner with some of the most interesting people on the planet." |
"A great event in the Anglo-Saxon culture." |
"As fascinating and weighty as one would imagine...I strongly recommend a visit to anyone who feels browbeaten by fans of that over-rated virtue: mere consistency. " |
 THE GUARDIAN "They are the intellectual elite, the brains the rest of us rely on to make sense of the universe and answer the big questions. But in a refreshing show of new year humility, the world's best thinkers have admitted that from time to time even they are forced to change their minds." |
 THE SCOTSMAN "Praised by everyone from the Guardian, Prospect magazine, Wired, the New York Times and BBC Radio 4, Edge is an online collective of deep thinkers. Their contributors aren't on the frontier, they are the frontier." |
 CHARLESTON CITY PAPER "Edge and the Edge Reality Club, a kind of scientist’s salon, is doing wonders for advancing the national conversation about science and scientific thinking." |
Persuasively upbeat. |
"There is much in many of these brief essays to astonish, to be appalled at, to mull over or to wish for...Most of them are vitally engaging to anyone with an ounce of interest in matters such as being or whatever." |
"Our greatest minds provide nutshell insights on how science will help forge a better world ahead." |
"Uplifting ...enthralling." |
 THE CANBERRA TIMES "There is much in many of these brief essays to astonish, to be appalled at, to mull over or to wish for...Most of them are vitally engaging to anyone with an ounce of interest in matters such as being or whatever." |
"Sparky and provoking ... radiates bright ideas." |
 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "What's the big idea?...When the lightbulb above your head is truly incendiary." |
 THE GUARDIAN "...fascinating and provocative reading." |
 THE TIMES "If you think the web is full of trivial rubbish, you will find the intellectual badinage of edge.org to be a blessed counterpoint." |
 THE HINDU "Recommended read to detox a tired mind." |
 DiSCOVER "...reads like an intriguing dinner party conversation among great minds in science." |
 THE SUNDAY TIMES "Brilliant... a eureka moment at the edge of knowledge, as scientists ponder the imponderable. ... A website that will expand your mind." |
 THE INDEPENDENT "He (Ian McEwan) loves the spirited playfulness evident in places such as John Brockman's celebrated website Edge, where "neuroscientists might talk to mathematicians, biologists to computer-modelling experts", and in an accessible, discipline-crossing language that lets us all eavesdrop. |
 THE IRISH TIMES "www.edge.org...has established itself as a major force on the intellectual scene in the US and as required reading for humanities heads who want to keep up to speed with the latest in science and technology." |
 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER "Intellectual and creative magnificence." |
 TELEGRAPH "Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."— Ian McEwan |
 THE BOSTON GLOBE "Astounding reading." |
 TORONTO STAR "...the fascinating website edge.org." |
 SEED "An unprecedented roster of brilliant minds, the sum of which is nothing short of visionary." |
 BBC RADIO 4 "Fantastically stimulating...It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking world.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about that question." |
 EVENING STANDARD "Danger — brilliant minds at work... exhilarating, hilarious, and chilling." |
 SUNDAY HERALD "A selection of the most explosive ideas of our age." |
THE GUARDIAN "Scientific pipedreams at their very best." |
"Wonderful reading." |
TELEGRAPH "Strangley addictive." |
 THE OBSERVER "Brockman's cross-fertilising club, the most rarefied of chatrooms, has its premises on his website www.edge.org. Eavesdropping is fun. Ian McEwan, one of the few novelists who has contributed to Edge's ongoing debates, suggests that the project is not so far removed from the 'old Enlightenment dream of a unified body of knowledge, when biologists and economists draw on each other's concepts and molecular biologists stray into the poorly defended territory of chemists and physicists'." |
 ARTS & LETTERS DAILY "The greatest virtual research university in the world." |
 LA VANGUARDIA "Audacious and stimulating." |
THE SUNDAY TIMES "Brilliant! Stimulating reading for anyone seeking a glimpse into the next decade." |
 LA STAMPA "A running fire of a provocative and fascinating thesis." |
 THE NEW YORK TIMES "One of the most interesting stopping places on the Web." |
 SCIENCE "A peerage culture, a peerage that network technology encouraged." |
THE GUARDIAN "A stellar cast of thinkers tackles the really big questions facing scientists." |
 THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT "It is like having a front-row seat at the ultimate scientific seminar series." |
 KANSAS CITY.COM "A fascinating site." |
"Fascinating...a lot of fun." |
 AMERICAN SCIENTIST "Fascinating and thought-provoking ...wonderful, intelligent." |
THE NEW YORK TIMES "Today's visions of science
tomorrow." |
 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "You can improve your own science education at www.edge.org." |
 SONNTAGS ZEITUNG.CH "Clever minds debate on Edge about God and the world: what life is, what will result from global warming, or what the most recent discoveries in immunology research tell us. It is almost as colorful as the days of Louis XVI, when philosophers, writers, and political thinkers disputed one another in Parisian living rooms — and prepared the way for revolution." |
"Awesome indie newsletter with brilliant contributors." |
 FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE "Thrilling ... Everything is permitted, and nothing is excluded from this intellectual game." |
THE SUNDAY TIMES "Websites of the year ... Inspired Arena...the world's foremost scientific thinkers." |
ARTS & LETTERS DAILY "Deliciously creative...the variety astonishes...intellectual skyrockets of stunning brilliance. Nobody in the world is doing what Edge is doing." |
 PROSPECT "A marvellous showcase for the Internet, it comes very highly recommended." |
 MERCURY NEWS "Profound, esoteric and outright entertaining." |
THE GUARDIAN "A terrific, thought provoking site." |
THE NEW YORK TIMES "....a fascinating survey of
intellectual and creative wonders of the world ... Thoughtful
and often surprising ...reminds me of how wondrous our world
is." |
 WIRED "One of the Net's most prestigious, invitation-only free trade zones for the exchange of potent ideas." |
 TIME OUT "Edge proves that shopping and fucking are hardly the only reasons people go online.." |
"An enjoyable read." |
 WIRED "A-list: Dorothy Parker's Vicious Circle without the food and alcohol ... a brilliant format." |
 NEW SCIENTIST "Big, deep and ambitous questions... breathtaking in scope." |
 THE ATLANTIC "Has raised electronic discourse on the Web to a whole new level." |
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THE INDEPENDENT "Lively, sometimes obscure and almost always ambitious." |
John Brockman, Editor and Publisher |
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