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Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? and Why? Larry Sanger I am optimistic about humanity’s coming enlightenment. In particular, I am optimistic about humanity’s […]

Reposted from the New York Times. Robin Marantz Henig God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on […]

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? and Why? Daniel Goleman I live in a bowl-shaped valley on the edge of the Berkshire hills in […]

This article is reposted from India’s newspaper Frontline. C.E. Karunakaran If all the people of the world had the same living style as the average American, the holocaust would have […]

This article first appeared in Harper’s Magazine under the title: Republic or Empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States on February 07, 2007.  I think it warrants your […]

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? and Why? William Calvin Mention global warming at a seasonal social gathering and see what happens, now that […]

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? Why?  Marvin Minsky Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jacques Dubourg in April of 1773: “I wish it […]

Originally published at the Author’s websites on February 5th, 2007. James Howard Kunstler Out in the public arena, people frequently twang on me for being “Mister Gloom’n’doom,” or for “not […]

John Michael Greer One of the major blind spots that gets in the way of trying to anticipate the shape of a deindustrial future in advance is the habit of […]