THE EDGE "BILLIONAIRES' DINNER" 2010

Edge Dinners

THE EDGE "BILLIONAIRES' DINNER" 2010

Event Date:[ 2.11.10 ]
Location: United States

A NEW AGE OF WONDER
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In a 2009 talk at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Freeman Dyson?articulated a vision for the future. Referencing The Age Of Wonder, by Richard Holmes, which was centered on chemistry and poetry, Dyson pointed out that we are entering a new Age of Wonder, which dominated by computational biology.?

"A new generation of artists," Dyson said, "writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet. Most of these artists would be amateurs, but they would be in close touch with science, like the poets of the earlier Age of Wonder. The new Age of Wonder might bring together wealthy entrepreneurs ... and a worldwide community of gardeners and farmers and breeders, working together to make the planet beautiful as well as fertile, hospitable to hummingbirds as well as to humans."?

The leaders of the new Age of Wonder, Dyson noted, include "biology wizards"?Kary Mullis,?Craig Venter,?medical engineer?Dean Kamen;?and "computer wizards"?Larry Page,?Sergey Brin, and?Charles Simonyi, and??John Brockman?and?Katinka Matson, the cofounders of?Edge, the nexus of this intellectual activity.

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@ev — Evan Williams, Twitter?
Jean Pigozzi & Max Brockman
Bill Gates & Arianna Huffington
Jared Cohen, Dave Morin, John Cusack, Dean Kamen, Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Michael Shermer
Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins,?Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation,?Sergey Brin, Google
Keith Coleman & Esther Duflo
John Markoff & Aillette Mandelbrot
Esther Duflo
Anne Treisman & Daniel Kahneman
Larry Page, John Brockman,?George Church, Craig Venter
Pati Hillis, Steven Levy, Matt Groening
Larry Brilliant, Linda Stone, Jean Case, Steve Case, Rod Brooks
Lori Park & Larry Page
Xeni Jardin & W. Daniel Hillis
Jesse Dylan & Jeff Skoll
Steven Levy & Nathan Myhrvold
Richard Thaler
Elise Wolfram & W. Daniel Hillis
Max Brockman & Jaqui Safra
Richard Thaler,?Esther Duflo,?Craig Venter
Yves Behar
Craig Venter & Chris Anderson
Jeff Bezos & Sam Harris
June Cohen?&?Michael Specter
Laura Chang, Nancy Mullis,?Sam Harris, Annaka Harris, Shannon Joy ?
Larry Page,?Lori Park,?Salar Kamangar ?
Chris Anderson
Nicholas Pritzker
Pati Hillis & Matt Groening
George Church & Craig Venter
Jason Calacanis, Evan Williams,?Keith Coleman
Annaka Harris, Andres Roemer, ?Sam Harris, Susan Dennett, ?Shannon Joy
Jason Calacanis & Lisa Randall
Larry Page, George Church,?Laura Chang, Craig Venter
Kary Mullis & Benoit Mandelbrot
Danielle Lambert,?Tony Fadell,?Katinka Matson,?Zack Bogue ?
Daniel Dennett & Nathan Myhrvold
Benoit Mandelbrot
Steven Levy, Marissa Mayer, ?Tim O'Reilly
Ricardo Salinas Pliego?&?Yves Behar ?
Annaka Harris, Andres Roemer,?Sam Harris
Peter Diamandis & Jeff Bezos
Laura Chang, John Markoff,?Stewart Brand
David Rockwell ?
Susan Wojciki & Kara Swisher
Max Brockman & Larry Brilliant
Katinka Matson, Michael Tchao, ?Jared Cohen, Dave Morin
Craig Venter & Larry Page
Katinka Matson
Xeni Jardin, Nathan Wolfe, Marissa Mayer