The Edge question : introduction / by Daniel C. Dennett
Evolution changes everything / Scott Sampson
DNA : writing the software of life / J. Craig Venter
A change in who we are / PZ Myers
The robotic moment / Sherry Turkle
The brain-machine interface / James Geary
Breaking the species barrier / Richard Dawkins
Slippery expectations / Corey S. Powell
The full flourishing of solar technology / Ian McEwan
or maybe not / Steven Pinker
Our genes are not our fate / Dean Ornish
A forebrain for the world mind / W. Daniel Hillis
Future as present : a final experiment / Ernst Pöppel
But we shall all be changed / Frank J. Tipler
The credit crunch for materialism / Rupert Sheldrake
The laptop quantum computer / Donald D. Hoffman
Undo the present ; recall the past / Seth Lloyd
Rounding an endless vicious circle / Alan Alda
The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The feeling that things will get worse / Brian Eno
Homesteading in Hilbert space / Frank Wilczek
Revelation / Stefano Boeri
The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / Douglas Rushkoff
A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / Paul Saffo
AI and intellectual mastery / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
Avoiding doomsday / Alexander Vilenkin
Escaping the Gravity Well / David Dalrymple
Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Dimitar Sasselov
Life (or not) on Mars / Rodney Brooks
A separate origin for life / Robert Shapiro
Shadow biosphere / Paul Davies
Laboratory earth colonies / John Gottman
Interstellar viruses / George Dyson
Computers are the new microscopes / Terrence Sejnowski
Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers / David Eagleman
The implementation of life in engineered materials / Neil Gershenfeld
Decoding the brain / Gary Marcus
Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Bart Kosko
Superintelligence / Nick Bostrom
Becoming robotic / Gregory Paul
The synchronization of brains / Jamshed Bharucha
Thinking small : understading the brain / Irene Pepperberg
Controlling the brain's plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa
Never-ending childhood / Alison Gopnik
The ebb of memory / Kevin Slavin
Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Susan Blackmore
Malthusian information famine / Charles Seife
Reading minds / Kenneth W. Ford
True lie detection / Sam Harris
Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Freeman Dyson
Little changes make the biggest difference / Barry C. Smith
Neuronally expressed messages / Peter Schwartz
A new kind of mind / Kevin Kelly
The age of reputation / Gloria Orrigi
Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Howard Gardner
Molecular manufacturing / Ed Regis
Resizing ourselves / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Marc D. Hauser
Computing the embryo / Lewis Wolpert
Homo evolutis / Juan Enriquez
The open universe / Stuart Kauffman
Living to a hundred and fifty / Gregory Benford
Mastering death / Marcelo Gleiser
No more time decay / Emanuel Derman
West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Laurence C. Smith
Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Stephen H. Schneider
Climate will change everything / William Calvin
Molecular manufacturing and climate change / Eric Drexler
The mastery of climate / Stewart Brand
The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population / Lawrence Krauss
Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Gerald Holton
Accidental nuclear war / Max Tegmark
The breakdown of all computers / Anton Zeilinger
The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Dan Sperber
Adopting rationality and sustainability / Patrick Bateson
Fusion expectations / Roger Highfield
Green oil / Alun Anderson
Attempts at geoengineering / Oliver Morton
Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / Daniel Goleman
The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / Andrian Kreye
The anthroposphere / Nicholas A. Christakis
At last : technology will change education / Haim Harari
Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / David G. Myers
On basketball and science camps / Stephon H. Alexander
A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Chris Anderson
Wisdom reborn / Roger C. Schank
Tracks and cluster / David Gelernter
The mobile phone / Keith Devlin
Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Michael Shermer
Undoing Babylon / Daniel L. Everett
Soul travel for selfless beings / Thomas Metzinger
Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Tor Nørretranders
Changes in the changers / A. Garrett Lisi
Neurocosmetics / Marcel Kinsbourne
Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Brian Knutson
Celebratory self-reengineering / Andy Clark
A different kind of male subjectivity / Tino Sehgal
Hidden persuaders '09 / Helen Fisher
A lively gamete market / Henry Harpending
Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / Marco Iacoboni
A farewell to harm / Karl Sabbach
God need not actually exist to have evolved / Jesse Bering
Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / Clifford A. Pickover
The reality of time / Lee Smolin
The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Gino Segrè
Black holes : the ultimate game changer? / Paul J. Steinhardt
Better measurements / Gregory Cochran
We are learning to make phenotypes / Mark Pagel
The next step in human health care? / Ian Wilmut
Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Paul Ewald
Biological markers for mental illness / Eric Kandel
Recognizing that the body is not a machine / Randolph Nesse
The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Brian Goodwin
Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Jonathan Haidt
Africa / James J. O'Donnell
Epistemology will change the world / Lera Boroditsky
Social media literacy / Howard Rheingold
The decline of text / Marti Hearst
The end of analytic science / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Coordinated computational power will change science / Lisa Randall
Carniculture / Austin Dacey
Exploitability / David M. Buss
Post-rational economic man / David Berreby
Nothing will change everything / Richard Foreman
Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations and numerical evaluations / Verna Huber-Dyson
People who can intuit in six dimensions / Robert Sapolsky
Massive technological failure / David Bodanis
Our brave new map of the world / Christine Finn
The unmasking of true human nature / Aubrey de Grey
And if the big change doesn't arrive? / Carlo Rovelli
"Everything" has already changed! / Kai Krause
The slow-motion revolution / Robert R. Provine
Why human nature will rebel / Nicholas Humphrey.