The Edge Foundation’s latest annual question and answers are online. This year, the question is (theoretically) asked by George W. Bush:
“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?”
The responses, which were excerpted in the New York Times over the weekend, came in from some amazing folks including Ian Wilmut, Ray Kurzweil, Freeman Dyson, Kevin Kelly, Marvin Minsky, George Dyson, K. Eric Drexler, Judith Rich Harris, Alan Alda, Keith Devlin, John McCarthy and many more. Read the responses here.
(DISCLAIMER: John Brockman, president of the Edge Foundation, is my literary agent.)