What will change everything? 150 scientists, authors and public figures answer this question. You can learn lots. How to sum it up?

George Dvorsky said it best: Edge.org Answers Overwhelmingly Transhumanist.

Having seen George's collection, I don't feel like I can top that view of the answers. So what I present here is just a collection of the ideas which were novel to me, i.e. said something I didn't already know... I've also picked a few I think are relevant to the metaciv project. Obviously I think you should read all the answers yourself. But if you want a curated collection, here's mine.

Kevin Kelly - a new kind of mind. Not strong AI, but ubiquity of intelligence. Fascinating insight.

Chris Anderson - a web empowered revolution in teaching (by video, of course)

George Dyson - Interstellar Viruses - actually, transmitting alien intelligences, and having civilizations "unpack them", similar to hosting a virus... interesting idea - why send messages when you can send yourself?

Daniel L. Everett - Undoing Babylon: universal accurate language translation

Nicholas Humphrey - this one really sums up WHY transhumanism is the dominate answer. If you change human nature, you change everything in the most fundamental sense.

Freeman Dyson - radiotelepathy

Haim Harari - education is still awaiting revolution

Leo Chalupa - drugs for brain plasticity!

Steven Pinker - thoughts on failed futurism, personal genomics

Keith Devlin - the mobile phone!

Howard Rheingold - social media explosion?

Eric Drexler - carbon emissions problem, nanotech removal

David Gelernter - track & cluster to replace school as we know it

Brian Eno - self fufilling feelings of things getting worse

Sherry Turkle - robots as companions - and dangers thereof

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - miniaturizing people to reduce their burden

David M Buss - exploitability

Robert Sapolky - people who can intuit in six-dimensions. But such humans may never exist!