This will change everything: ideas that will shape the future

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

Personal genomics

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

Culture / Timothy Taylor

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

Happiness / Betsy Devine

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.