Context: Eastover Farm

From: John Brockman <[redacted]>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 6:05 PM
To: Craig Venter; George Church; Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Jared Diamond; Richard Dawkins; Murray Gell-Mann; Martin Rees; Philip Campbell; Alun Anderson; Nathan Myhrvold; Paul Allen; Charles Simonyi; Bill Gates; Ginevra Elkann; Craig Mundie; Lori Park; Jimmy Wales; Jeffrey Epstein; Tim O'Reilly; J.E. Safra; [redacted]; Rodriguez; Larry Page; Sergey Brin; Salar Kamangar; Eric Schmidt; Mark Zuckerberg; Marissa Mayer; Elon Musk; Evan Williams; David Brooks; Sean Parker; Dave Morin; John Lloyd; Terry Gilliam; Alfonso Cuaron; Jean Pigozzi; Philip Tetlock; Walter Mischel; Eric Kandel; Daniel Kahneman; Geoffrey West; Stuart Kauffman; George Smoot; Leonard Susskind; Steve Case; Peter Gabriel; Brian Eno; Andrei Linde; Jeff Skoll; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Bill Joy; John Doerr; Vinod Khosla; Richard Thaler; Nick Pritzker; Kary Mullis; Peter Diamandis; Dean Kamen; Pierre Omidyar; Jaron Lanier; Alan Guth; Brian Greene; Miuccia Prada; Maja Hoffman; Sebastian Thrun; Tom Stoppard; Freeman Dyson; Tim Berners-Lee; Christopher Anderson
Subject: 2013 Edge Question - An Update

Eastover Farm

The 2013 Question is off to a great start with early contributions from =1 Edgies, and publication set for Sunday, January 13th.

I am writing to all of you because science in America can use a boost, =nd young people can certainly use role models. If you are on this =articular email list, you are 1) one the world's great scientists =Kahneman, Gell-mann, etc.; 2) a pioneer in computation, software, the =nternet (Gates, Page, Zuckerberg); 3) a major player in the avant grade =rt world (Prada, Hoffmann, Elkann, Obrist). So, if you take the time to =rite a response, your participation will be noticed: the Question has a =ide international readership and receives intense press attention, =hich is nearly unanimously "over the top". (See: =ttp://www.edge.org/edge-in-the-news)

Here is the link to the Question (Important - please read the =editorial marching orders" before sitting down to write).

URL: http://edge.org/annual-question/q2013

User: Edge_Question

PW: 2013

[To date:] George Dyson, Daniel Goleman, Max Tegmark, Gary Marcus, Roger =ighfield, Douglas Rushkoff, Michael Shermer, David Christian, Juan =nriquez, Peter Woit, Nicholas Humphrey, Charles Seife, Aubrey De Grey, =cott Atran, Clifford Pickover, Mary Catherine Bateson, Colin Tudge, =oger Schank, Steven Pinker, Howard Gardner, Daniel C. Dennett

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We worry because we are built to anticipate the future. Nothing can stop =s from worrying, but science can teach us how to worry better, and when =o stop worrying.

## WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

Tell us something that worries you (for scientific reasons), but doesn't =eem to be on the popular radar yet—and why it should be. Or tell us =omething that you have stopped worrying about, even if others do, and =hy it should be taken off the radar.

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DEADLINE FOR ESSAYS: 5 PM, Thursday, January 10th PUBLICATION DATE: 12am EST, Sunday, January 13th

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You know what to do.

And if you aren't into responding, but happen to be the CEO, Chairman, =ounder, of say, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, consider =etting behind publication of the 2013 Question on Sunday, January 13th =hich we are billing as "World Question Day" (a link from your search =age would be helpful and interesting). Or if you're interested in the =rts, you might be interested in the plan for a Serpentine Gallery/Edge =ollaboration in building a significant arts institution in Silicon =alley. This project is spearheaded by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director =f the Serpentine Gallery, who is considered to be the leading art =urator in the world. Interested? Let me know.

Finally, spend New Year Eve watching the videos, published today, of =ared Diamond talking about his 41 trips to New Guinea ("TALES FROM THE =ORLD BEFORE YESTERDAY" http://www.edge.org/)

Have a Edgy New Year!!

JB
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## WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT? (cont.)

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