What Are You Optimistic About?
The Edge Annual Question — 2007
WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?
As an activity, as a state of mind, science is fundamentally optimistic. Science figures out how things work and thus can make them work better. Much of the news is either good news or news that can be made good, thanks to ever deepening knowledge and ever more efficient and powerful tools and techniques. Science, on its frontiers, poses more and ever better questions, ever better put.
What are you optimistic about? Why? Surprise us!
Here are three of my favorites to get you started:
Sam Harris
Richard Dawkins
Daniel Dennett
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The prediction of Daniel Dennet is not good for the cause of atheism. It could be a failure similar to the prediction of the worldrevolution by the marxists.