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January 13, 2023

This article is about the U.S.-based science and technology think tank and website. For the UK organisation, see Edge (educational foundation). For the educational support organization for women, see EDGE Foundation.

The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its main activities are reflected on the edge.org website, edited by publisher and businessman John Brockman. The site is a critically noted[1][2][3] online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas.

edge.com
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Created byJohn Brockman
URLedge.org

Edge.org

A long-running feature on Edge is the Annual Question, which gathers many short essays on topical questions from Brockman's broad network of thought leaders in philosophy and science; these essays are usually published collectively as a book shortly thereafter.

Many of the feature articles on Edge are structured as video interviews with a prominent figure in some scientific field (such as Daniel Kahneman or Steven Pinker) discussing his or her recent research or mental preoccupations, in a free-flowing spiel from which the interviewer—often Brockman himself—is largely absent. This is usually accompanied by a full transcript which includes more material than the video portion (which is typically edited for brevity, down to less than an hour in length).

Because Brockman functions primarily as a literary agent, subjects featured on Edge are in most cases lucid communicators, even when relating new developments in highly specialized research areas. The lucid exposition of challenging and novel science is Edge's primary calling card.

A less common format is video conference proceedings or Master Class round-table seminars on a set subject matter, such as Philip E. Tetlock's seminar on superforecasting from 2015, or Richard Thaler's seminar on behavioural psychology from 2008.

Edge adds new content relatively infrequently, with no set schedule, apart from the Annual Question.

The Third Culture

The Third Culture is the growing movement towards reintegration of literary and scientific thinking and is a nod toward British scientist C. P. Snow's concept of the two cultures of science and the humanities. John Brockman published a book of the same name whose themes are continued at the Edge website. Here, scientists and others are invited to contribute their thoughts in a manner readily accessible to non-specialist readers. In doing so, leading thinkers are able to communicate directly with each other and the public without the intervention of middlemen such as journalists and journal editors.[4]

Many areas of academic work are incorporated, including genetics, physics, mathematics, psychology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and computing technology.

Edge Question

Edge poses its members an annual question:[5]

  • 1998:"What questions are you asking yourself?"[6]
  • 1999: "What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?"
  • 2000: "What is today's most important unreported story?"
  • 2001: "What questions have disappeared?" and "What now?" This was the only year with two separate questions.
  • 2002: "What is your question? ... Why?"
  • 2003: "What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?"
  • 2004: "What's your law?"
  • 2005: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"[7] The responses generated were published as a book under the title What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty with an introduction by the novelist Ian McEwan.[8]
  • 2006: "What is your dangerous idea"?[9] The responses formed the book What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, which was published with an introduction by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard Dawkins.[10]
  • 2007: "What are you optimistic about? Why?",[11] which resulted in a companion publication.[12]
  • 2008: "What have you changed your mind about?"[13] and the corresponding book published shortly thereafter.[14]
  • 2009: "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"[15] and a book version.[16]
  • 2010: "How has the Internet changed the way you think?"[17] and associated book.[18]
  • 2011: "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?"[19] and associated book.[18]
  • 2012: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"[20] and associated book.[21]
  • 2013: "What should we be worried about?"[22] and associated book.[23]
  • 2014: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"[24] and associated book.[25]
  • 2015: "What Do You Think About Machines that Think" [26] and associated book.[27]
  • 2016: "What Do You Think the Most Interesting Recent [Scientific] News? What makes it Important?"[28] and associated book.[29]
  • 2017: "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?"[30] and associated book.[31]
  • 2018: "What is the last-question?"[32]

Contributing authors

As of 2011,[19] contributors included Anthony Aguirre, Stephon Alexander, John Allen Paulos, Adam Alter, Alun Anderson, Ross Anderson, Scott Atran, Mahzarin Banaji, Thomas Bass, Sue Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Giulio Boccaletti, Stefano Boeri, Josh Bongard, Nick Bostrom, Stewart Brand, David Buss, William Calvin, Nicholas Carr, Sean M. Carroll, Nicholas Christakis, George M. Church, Andy Clark, Gregory Cochran, James Croak, Satyajit Das, Richard Dawkins, Aubrey De Grey, Daniel Dennett, Emanuel Derman, Keith Devlin, Rolf Dobelli, George Dyson, David Eagleman, Brian Eno, Juan Enriquez, Dylan Evans, Christine Finn, Stuart Firestein, Helen Fisher, Susan Fiske, Tecumseh Fitch, Richard Foreman, Howard Gardner, Amanda Gefter, David Gelernter, Neil Gershenfeld, Gerd Gigerenzer, Marcelo Gleiser, Nigel Goldenfeld, Rebecca Goldstein, Daniel Goleman, Alison Gopnik, Joshua Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Diane Halpern, Kevin Hand, Haim Harari, Sam Harris, Marti Hearst, Roger Highfield, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald D. Hoffman, Gerald Holton, Bruce Hood, Nicholas Humphrey, Jennifer Jacquet, Xeni Jardin, Daniel Kahneman, Kevin Kelly, Douglas Kenrick, Christian Keysers, Vinod Khosla, Marcel Kinsbourne, Jon Kleinberg, Brian Knutson, Bart Kosko, Kai Krause, Lawrence Krauss, Rob Kurzban, George Lakoff, Jaron Lanier, Jonah Lehrer, Garrett Lisi, Seth Lloyd, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Gary Marcus, Hazel Rose Markus, John McWhorter, Thomas Metzinger, Geoffrey Miller, Evgeny Morozov, P.Z. Myers, David Myers, Richard Nisbett, Tor Norretranders, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Gloria Origgi, Neri Oxman, Mark Pagel, Greg Paul, Irene Pepperberg, Clifford Pickover, Steven Pinker, David Pizarro, Ernst Pöppel, V.S. Ramachandran, Lisa Randall, Martin Rees, Andrew Revkin, Matt Ridley, Matthew Ritchie, Jay Rosen, Carlo Rovelli, David Rowan, Rudy Rucker, Douglas Rushkoff, Paul Saffo, Scott D. Sampson, Robert Sapolsky, Dimitar Sasselov, Richard Saul Wurman, Roger Schank, Kathryn Schulz, Gino Segre, Charles Seife, Terrence Sejnowski, Martin Seligman, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, Lee Smolin, Dan Sperber, Tom Standage, Victoria Stodden, Linda Stone, Nassim Taleb, Don Tapscott, Max Tegmark, Richard Thaler, John Tooby, Eric Topol, J. Craig Venter, Eric Weinstein, Frank Wilczek, Dave Winer and Milford Wolpoff.

Carl Zimmer was also a former contributor but asked for his content to be removed after learning of the role of Jeffrey Epstein as a supporter of the foundation[33]

References

  1. ^ Naughton, John (8 January 2012). "John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ Schappell, Elissa Schappell. "A Mental Spring Cleaning". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ Upbin, Brian (5 October 2011). "Forbes Is Seeking Edge Thinkers". Forbes. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  4. ^ John Brockman (1995). The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-82344-6.
  5. ^ "Annual Question". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  6. ^ Brockman, John (1998). "1998: WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  7. ^ "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?". edge.org. 2005.
  8. ^ What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. Free Press, UK. 2005. ISBN 9781416522614.
  9. ^ "What is your dangerous idea?". edge.org. 2006.
  10. ^ What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable. Harper Perennial. 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-121495-0.
  11. ^ "What are you optimistic about? Why?". edge.org. 2007.
  12. ^ John Brockman, ed. (2007). What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better. ISBN 978-0-06-143693-2.
  13. ^ "What have you changed your mind about?". edge.org. 2008.
  14. ^ John Brockman, ed. (13 January 2009). What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything. ISBN 978-0-06-168654-2.
  15. ^ "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?". edge.org. 2009.
  16. ^ John Brockman (ed.). This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape The Future. ISBN 0-06-189967-4.
  17. ^ "How has the Internet changed the way you think?". edge.org. 2010.
  18. ^ a b Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future. Brockman, John, 1941-, Edge.org. (1st ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. 2011. ISBN 9780062020444. OCLC 641534355.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ a b "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?". edge.org. 2011.
  20. ^ "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?". edge.org. 2012.
  21. ^ This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works. Brockman, John, 1941- (1st ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. 2013. ISBN 9780062230171. OCLC 795758008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. ^ "What should we be worried about?". edge.org. 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  23. ^ What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night. Brockman, John, 1941-, Edge.org. (First ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 9780062296238. OCLC 849787401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  24. ^ "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  25. ^ This idea must die : scientific ideas that are blocking progress. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. 17 February 2015. ISBN 9780062374349. OCLC 881042113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  26. ^ "What Do You Think About Machines that Think?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
  27. ^ What to think about machines that think : today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9780062425652. OCLC 922877862.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  28. ^ "WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  29. ^ Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York, NY. 7 February 2017. ISBN 9780062562067. OCLC 964787935.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  30. ^ "2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?". edge.org. 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  31. ^ This idea is brilliant : lost, overlooked, and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know. Brockman, John, 1941- (First ed.). New York. 16 January 2018. ISBN 9780062698216. OCLC 1019711625.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  32. ^ "2018: What is the last question?". edge.org. 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  33. ^ "How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-10-03.

External links

  • Edge.org website
  • Profile of John Brockman at Guardian Unlimited

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This article is about the U S based science and technology think tank and website For the UK organisation see Edge educational foundation For the educational support organization for women see EDGE Foundation This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Edge Foundation Inc news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Edge Foundation Inc is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club Its main activities are reflected on the edge org website edited by publisher and businessman John Brockman The site is a critically noted 1 2 3 online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas edge comType of siteGroup blogCreated byJohn BrockmanURLedge wbr org Contents 1 Edge org 2 The Third Culture 3 Edge Question 4 Contributing authors 5 References 6 External linksEdge org EditA long running feature on Edge is the Annual Question which gathers many short essays on topical questions from Brockman s broad network of thought leaders in philosophy and science these essays are usually published collectively as a book shortly thereafter Many of the feature articles on Edge are structured as video interviews with a prominent figure in some scientific field such as Daniel Kahneman or Steven Pinker discussing his or her recent research or mental preoccupations in a free flowing spiel from which the interviewer often Brockman himself is largely absent This is usually accompanied by a full transcript which includes more material than the video portion which is typically edited for brevity down to less than an hour in length Because Brockman functions primarily as a literary agent subjects featured on Edge are in most cases lucid communicators even when relating new developments in highly specialized research areas The lucid exposition of challenging and novel science is Edge s primary calling card A less common format is video conference proceedings or Master Class round table seminars on a set subject matter such as Philip E Tetlock s seminar on superforecasting from 2015 or Richard Thaler s seminar on behavioural psychology from 2008 Edge adds new content relatively infrequently with no set schedule apart from the Annual Question The Third Culture EditThe Third Culture is the growing movement towards reintegration of literary and scientific thinking and is a nod toward British scientist C P Snow s concept of the two cultures of science and the humanities John Brockman published a book of the same name whose themes are continued at the Edge website Here scientists and others are invited to contribute their thoughts in a manner readily accessible to non specialist readers In doing so leading thinkers are able to communicate directly with each other and the public without the intervention of middlemen such as journalists and journal editors 4 Many areas of academic work are incorporated including genetics physics mathematics psychology evolutionary biology philosophy and computing technology Edge Question EditEdge poses its members an annual question 5 1998 What questions are you asking yourself 6 1999 What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years 2000 What is today s most important unreported story 2001 What questions have disappeared and What now This was the only year with two separate questions 2002 What is your question Why 2003 What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them 2004 What s your law 2005 What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it 7 The responses generated were published as a book under the title What We Believe But Cannot Prove Today s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty with an introduction by the novelist Ian McEwan 8 2006 What is your dangerous idea 9 The responses formed the book What Is Your Dangerous Idea which was published with an introduction by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard Dawkins 10 2007 What are you optimistic about Why 11 which resulted in a companion publication 12 2008 What have you changed your mind about 13 and the corresponding book published shortly thereafter 14 2009 What Will Change Everything What game changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see 15 and a book version 16 2010 How has the Internet changed the way you think 17 and associated book 18 2011 What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody s Cognitive Toolkit 19 and associated book 18 2012 What is your favorite deep elegant or beautiful explanation 20 and associated book 21 2013 What should we be worried about 22 and associated book 23 2014 What scientific idea is ready for retirement 24 and associated book 25 2015 What Do You Think About Machines that Think 26 and associated book 27 2016 What Do You Think the Most Interesting Recent Scientific News What makes it Important 28 and associated book 29 2017 What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known 30 and associated book 31 2018 What is the last question 32 Contributing authors EditAs of 2011 update 19 contributors included Anthony Aguirre Stephon Alexander John Allen Paulos Adam Alter Alun Anderson Ross Anderson Scott Atran Mahzarin Banaji Thomas Bass Sue Blackmore Paul Bloom Giulio Boccaletti Stefano Boeri Josh Bongard Nick Bostrom Stewart Brand David Buss William Calvin Nicholas Carr Sean M Carroll Nicholas Christakis George M Church Andy Clark Gregory Cochran James Croak Satyajit Das Richard Dawkins Aubrey De Grey Daniel Dennett Emanuel Derman Keith Devlin Rolf Dobelli George Dyson David Eagleman Brian Eno Juan Enriquez Dylan Evans Christine Finn Stuart Firestein Helen Fisher Susan Fiske Tecumseh Fitch Richard Foreman Howard Gardner Amanda Gefter David Gelernter Neil Gershenfeld Gerd Gigerenzer Marcelo Gleiser Nigel Goldenfeld Rebecca Goldstein Daniel Goleman Alison Gopnik Joshua Greene Jonathan Haidt Diane Halpern Kevin Hand Haim Harari Sam Harris Marti Hearst Roger Highfield W Daniel Hillis Donald D Hoffman Gerald Holton Bruce Hood Nicholas Humphrey Jennifer Jacquet Xeni Jardin Daniel Kahneman Kevin Kelly Douglas Kenrick Christian Keysers Vinod Khosla Marcel Kinsbourne Jon Kleinberg Brian Knutson Bart Kosko Kai Krause Lawrence Krauss Rob Kurzban George Lakoff Jaron Lanier Jonah Lehrer Garrett Lisi Seth Lloyd Stephen M Kosslyn Gary Marcus Hazel Rose Markus John McWhorter Thomas Metzinger Geoffrey Miller Evgeny Morozov P Z Myers David Myers Richard Nisbett Tor Norretranders Hans Ulrich Obrist Gloria Origgi Neri Oxman Mark Pagel Greg Paul Irene Pepperberg Clifford Pickover Steven Pinker David Pizarro Ernst Poppel V S Ramachandran Lisa Randall Martin Rees Andrew Revkin Matt Ridley Matthew Ritchie Jay Rosen Carlo Rovelli David Rowan Rudy Rucker Douglas Rushkoff Paul Saffo Scott D Sampson Robert Sapolsky Dimitar Sasselov Richard Saul Wurman Roger Schank Kathryn Schulz Gino Segre Charles Seife Terrence Sejnowski Martin Seligman Michael Shermer Clay Shirky Lee Smolin Dan Sperber Tom Standage Victoria Stodden Linda Stone Nassim Taleb Don Tapscott Max Tegmark Richard Thaler John Tooby Eric Topol J Craig Venter Eric Weinstein Frank Wilczek Dave Winer and Milford Wolpoff Carl Zimmer was also a former contributor but asked for his content to be removed after learning of the role of Jeffrey Epstein as a supporter of the foundation 33 References Edit Naughton John 8 January 2012 John Brockman the man who runs the world s smartest website The Guardian Retrieved 23 October 2017 Schappell Elissa Schappell A Mental Spring Cleaning Vanity Fair Retrieved 23 October 2017 Upbin Brian 5 October 2011 Forbes Is Seeking Edge Thinkers Forbes Retrieved 23 October 2017 John Brockman 1995 The Third Culture Beyond the Scientific Revolution Simon amp Schuster ISBN 0 684 82344 6 Annual Question www edge org Retrieved 2018 08 18 Brockman John 1998 1998 WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF www edge org Retrieved 2018 08 18 What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it edge org 2005 What We Believe But Cannot Prove Today s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty Free Press UK 2005 ISBN 9781416522614 What is your dangerous idea edge org 2006 What Is Your Dangerous Idea Today s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable Harper Perennial 2007 ISBN 978 0 06 121495 0 What are you optimistic about Why edge org 2007 John Brockman ed 2007 What Are You Optimistic About Today s Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better ISBN 978 0 06 143693 2 What have you changed your mind about edge org 2008 John Brockman ed 13 January 2009 What Have You Changed Your Mind About Today s Leading Minds Rethink Everything ISBN 978 0 06 168654 2 What Will Change Everything What game changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see edge org 2009 John Brockman ed This Will Change Everything Ideas That Will Shape The Future ISBN 0 06 189967 4 How has the Internet changed the way you think edge org 2010 a b Is the Internet changing the way you think the net s impact on our minds and future Brockman John 1941 Edge org 1st ed New York Harper Perennial 2011 ISBN 9780062020444 OCLC 641534355 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link a b What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody s Cognitive Toolkit edge org 2011 What is your favorite deep elegant or beautiful explanation edge org 2012 This explains everything deep beautiful and elegant theories of how the world works Brockman John 1941 1st ed New York Harper Perennial 2013 ISBN 9780062230171 OCLC 795758008 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link What should we be worried about edge org 2013 Retrieved 2013 02 18 What should we be worried about real scenarios that keep scientists up at night Brockman John 1941 Edge org First ed New York NY ISBN 9780062296238 OCLC 849787401 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link What scientific idea is ready for retirement edge org 2014 Retrieved 2015 12 21 This idea must die scientific ideas that are blocking progress Brockman John 1941 First ed New York 17 February 2015 ISBN 9780062374349 OCLC 881042113 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link What Do You Think About Machines that Think edge org 2014 Retrieved 2015 01 19 What to think about machines that think today s leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence Brockman John 1941 First ed New York ISBN 9780062425652 OCLC 922877862 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT SCIENTIFIC NEWS WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT Edge org www edge org Retrieved 2017 01 01 Know this today s most interesting and important scientific ideas discoveries and developments Brockman John 1941 First ed New York NY 7 February 2017 ISBN 9780062562067 OCLC 964787935 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link 2017 What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known edge org 2017 Retrieved 2017 04 02 This idea is brilliant lost overlooked and underappreciated scientific concepts everyone should know Brockman John 1941 First ed New York 16 January 2018 ISBN 9780062698216 OCLC 1019711625 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link 2018 What is the last question edge org 2018 Retrieved 2018 08 07 How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits BuzzFeed News Retrieved 2021 10 03 External links EditEdge org website Profile of John Brockman at Guardian Unlimited Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Edge Foundation Inc amp oldid 1093908268, wikipedia, wiki, 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