For the 6th Annual edition of Edge.org's "World Question," John Brockman posed the following imaginary query from George W. Bush to the Third Culture mail list:
"What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the
world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?" – GWB
Answers are now online from respondents including:
Ian Wilmut * J. Craig Venter * Steven Pinker * Ray Kurzweil * Gino
Segre * Stephen Schneider * Oliver Morton * Rodney Brooks * Seth
Lloyd * Denis Dutton * Freeman Dyson * Philip Campbell * Kevin Kelly
* Lawrence Brilliant * Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi * Paul Davies *
Robert Shapiro * Jaron Lanier * J. Doyne Farmer * Colin Tudge *
Marvin Minsky * George Dyson * William H. Calvin * David Gelernter *
Janna Levin * Howard Gardner * Martin Seligman * Richard Nisbett *
David Lykken * Alison Gopnik * Marc D. Hauser * Eric R. Kandel * K.
Eric Drexler * James J. O'Donnell * Michael Shermer * Daniel Goleman
* Richard Saul Wurman * Andy Clark * John Horgan * Roger C. Schank *
Nancy Etcoff * Gerald Holton * Judith Rich Harris * Brian Goodwin *
Karl Sabbagh * Joel Garreau * Susan Blackmore * Leo Chalupa * Jordan
Pollack * David Myers * Ernst Poppel * Lisa Randall * Stuart Pimm *
Eduardo Punset * Lee Smolin * Rafael Nunez * Timothy Taylor * Mike
Weiner * Leon Lederman * Bart Kosko * Adam Bly * Randolph Nesse *
Terrence Sejnowski * Mary Catherine Bateson * Alan Alda * Cliff
Barney * Douglas Rushkoff * Donald D. Hoffman * Steve Giddings *
Lance Knobel * Piet Hut * Robert Aunger * Christine Finn * David M.
Buss * Beatrice Golomb * Rupert Sheldrake * Delta Willis * Clifford
Pickover * Eberhard Zangger * Steven Quartz * Keith Devlin * John
McCarthy * Gary F. Marcus * Justin Hall * Stephen Reucroft & John
Swain
