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Review: What's Next? edited by Max Brockman

By Amanda Gefter

19 August 2009

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What’s coming next in science?

(Image: Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson/Keenpress/National Geographic)

EVERY New Year, I look forward to reading the answers to the Edge‘s annual question, when science’s foremost literary agent and impresario, John Brockman, asks science’s superstars what they are thinking. For a peek at the inner workings of science today, you can’t beat it.

But if you want to know what tomorrow holds, you have to look to the new generation, whose fresh minds are asking the questions that will define the next era of scientific thought. It is fitting, then, that it is one of…

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