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EDGE Question 2007: What are you optimistic about?

Xeni Jardin [12.31.06]

Each year, John Brockman's EDGE 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, Sherry Turkle, Danny Hillis, Jaron Lanier, Rodney Brooks, David Gelernter, Kevin Kelly, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Rudy Rucker, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Clay Shirky, Ray Kurzweil, and Clifford Pickover.

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Each year, John Brockman's EDGE [6] 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 [7], Sherry Turkle [8], Danny Hillis [9], Jaron Lanier [10], Rodney Brooks [11], David Gelernter [12], Kevin Kelly [13], Freeman Dyson [14], George Dyson [15], Rudy Rucker [16], Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi [17], Clay Shirky [18], Ray Kurzweil [19], and Clifford Pickover [20].

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Several of us from BoingBoing participated: here's [22] Cory's [23] response ("Copying Is What Bits Are For"), here's [24] Pesco's [25] ("We're Recognizing That the World Is a Wunderkammer"), here's [26] mine (" Truth Prevails. Sometimes, Technology Helps.").

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