changing everything

1. John Brockman's edge.org celebrates the ideas of what he calls the _____ _______, consisting of empirically-oriented thinkers whose work he says is re-defining what it means to be human.The 2009 Edge question was ____________________. Dan Dennett says _____________ will change everything.

2. Scott Sampson mentions the fast-growing industry of __________ and says we're the first generation to face what prospect?

3. Craig Venter says we'll soon all know our own __________, and can use that knowledge to _________ life.

4. A Duke neuroscientist predicts significant changes in the human form a hundred years from now, James Geary writes, because of a new type of _____________ interface allowing perceptual experience even at distances of millions of miles.

5. Corey Powell estimates the odds of genetically-engineered children as ___%, of significant life extension as ___%, and of conscious machines as ___%.

6. So far, says Danny Hillis, technology has made the collective human conversation ______ but not _______. For that to happen, we need a _________.

7. Ernst Poppel says long-term stability requires the presence of ____________.

8. _________ (optimism, pessimism) about the future will change everything, says Brian Eno.

9. Discovering extraterrestrial life would turn humans into a single self-acknowledged species, an ____, says Douglas Rushkoff. It would cure our __________, says Paul Saffo.

10. For Dimitar Sasselov, synthetic biology means ________________.