The short essays that make up this collection were written by the most famous scientists and thinkers of our day, participants in the Edge.org scientific and...

The short (and not so short) essays included in this collection were written by leading intellectuals of our day. All these texts answer the same question: w...

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind.

What scientific conc...

“Write about your favorite, most interesting, deep and elegant explanation,” publisher and writer John Brockman asked the most famous scientists around the w...

Back in 1950, the American mathematician, the founding father of cybernetics and the theory of artificial intelligence, Norbert Wiener published the work “Th...

John Brockman brings together the world’s best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Ge...

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.

Scientific developments radically c...

Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, Nassim Taleb, Esther Dyson, Brian Eno and nearly 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal how the internet...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today’s leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else ...

“What do you think about machines that think?” This question - and other questions arising from it - is answered by scientists and popularizers of science, e...

More than a hundred leading intellectuals in the world share their untested hypotheses, which in the near future may become an obvious truth for us. In short...