At the end of every year, Edge [5] reaches out to the smartest people on the planet and asks them a single question in an attempt to find the ideas and concepts that are changing the world of science. This year’s two-part question was: “What do you consider the most interesting recent [scientific] news? What makes it important?” [6]

Not surprisingly, this year’s set of 197 responses converged around a few key themes – the human brain, the human genome, space exploration and artificial intelligence. Based on these responses, here are 10 of the edgiest innovation buzzwords that have the greatest potential to change the trajectory of innovation in 2016. ...

Read highlighted contributions from: Max Tegmark [7], George Dyson [8], Melanie Swan [9], Christian Keysers [10], Abigail Marsh [11], Kevin Kelly [12], W. Tecumseh Fitch [13], Stewart Brand [14], Thomas Metzinger [15], and Mark Pagel [16].