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What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? was the question John Brockman posed to 150 of the worlds sharpest minds. Watch out: their fascinating answers might blow your mind. IAN MCEWAN (author of Atonement) on the full flourishing of solar power; STEVEN PINKER (author of The Language Instinct) on the introduction of direct-to-consumer genomics; RICHARD DAWKINS (author of The God Delusion) on cross-species breeding; SAM HARRIS (The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation) mind-reading technology; NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB (author of The Black Swan) on the end of precise knowledge; CHRIS ANDERSON (editor of Wired magazine; author of The Long Tail) on how the internet will revolutionize education; IRENE PEPPERBERG (author of Alex & Me) on unlocking the secrets of the brain; LISA RANDALL (author of Warped Passages) on advances in our ability to process information faster; FREEMAN DYSON (Physicist, Princeton Univ.) on "Radiotelepathy," the direct communication of feelings and thoughts from brain to brain; BRIAN ENO (music producer) on the battle between hope and fear; J. CRAIG VENTER (decoder of DNA) on rewriting DNA; FRANK WILCZEK (Nobel Prize-winning physicist) on mastering matter through quantum physics; & dozens more ...
