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The Edge Annual Question � 2006

WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?

The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?

For nine years now, the �third culture� people who run Edge.org � a sort of superhero clubhouse for computer scientists and physicists and neurologists and genomists and philosophers and plenty of other people who are actively thinking about the shape of our future (or just plain shaping it) � come up with a provocative question for themselves and the rest of the world. Then they let the clubhouse members loose.

This year�s question, courtesy of cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, was:

WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?

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