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edge.com
Type of site
Group blog
Created byJohn Brockman
URLedge.org

The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of

scientific and intellectual ideas. In 2019, BuzzFeed News reviewed Edge’s IRS filings and reported that Jeffrey Epstein was "by far its largest financial donor", and that "his association with Edge gave him access to leading scientists and figures in the tech industry."[4]

Edge.org

A long-running feature on Edge is the Annual Question, which gathers many short essays on topical questions from philosophers and scientists; 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, in an unstructured monologue from which the interviewer is largely absent.

A less common format is video conference proceedings or Master Class round-table seminars on a set subject matter, such as

behavioural psychology
from 2008.

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

The Third Culture

Echo markets The Third Culture as a movement towards reintegration of literary and scientific thinking. The name 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. Scientists and others are invited to contribute their thoughts in a manner accessible to non-specialist readers.[5]

Many areas of academic work are incorporated, including

computing technology
.

Edge Question

Edge poses its members an annual question:[6]

  • 1998:"What questions are you asking yourself?"[7]
  • 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?"
    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.[9]
  • 2006: "What is your dangerous idea"?[10] 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.[11]
  • 2007: "What are you optimistic about? Why?",[12] which resulted in a companion publication.[13]
  • 2008: "What have you changed your mind about?"[14] and the corresponding book published shortly thereafter.[15]
  • 2009: "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"[16] and a book version.[17]
  • 2010: "How has the Internet changed the way you think?"[18] and associated book.[19]
  • 2011: "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?"[20] and associated book.[19]
  • 2012: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"[21] and associated book.[22]
  • 2013: "What should we be worried about?"[23] and associated book.[24]
  • 2014: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"[25] and associated book.[26]
  • 2015: "What Do You Think About Machines that Think" [27] and associated book.[28]
  • 2016: "What Do You Think the Most Interesting Recent [Scientific] News? What makes it Important?"[29] and associated book.[30]
  • 2017: "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?"[31] and associated book.[32]
  • 2018: "What is the last-question?"[33]

Contributing authors

As of 2011,

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.[34]

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. ^ "How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits". BuzzFeed News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  5. ISBN 0-684-82344-6
    .
  6. ^ "Annual Question". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  7. ^ Brockman, John (1998). "1998: WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  8. ^ "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?". edge.org. 2005. Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  9. ISBN 9781416522614
    .
  10. ^ "What is your dangerous idea?". edge.org. 2006.
  11. ISBN 978-0-06-121495-0
    .
  12. ^ "What are you optimistic about? Why?". edge.org. 2007.
  13. ISBN 978-0-06-143693-2
    .
  14. ^ "What have you changed your mind about?". edge.org. 2008.
  15. ISBN 978-0-06-168654-2
    .
  16. ^ "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?". edge.org. 2009.
  17. ISBN 978-0-06-189967-6
    .
  18. ^ "How has the Internet changed the way you think?". edge.org. 2010.
  19. ^
    OCLC 641534355.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  20. ^ a b "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?". edge.org. 2011.
  21. ^ "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?". edge.org. 2012.
  22. OCLC 795758008.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  23. ^ "What should we be worried about?". edge.org. 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  24. OCLC 849787401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  25. ^ "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  26. OCLC 881042113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  27. ^ "What Do You Think About Machines that Think?". edge.org. 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
  28. OCLC 922877862.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  29. ^ "WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  30. OCLC 964787935.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  31. ^ "2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?". edge.org. 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  32. OCLC 1019711625.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  33. ^ "2018: What is the last question?". edge.org. 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  34. ^ "How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits". BuzzFeed News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 2021-10-03.

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