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What are you optimistic about?
taliesin Started conversation Jan 1, 2007
Edge has posted its annual question:
"What are you optimistic about? Why?" -- http://edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html
Yes, technically that's _two_ questions.. 
Some of the responses so far seem quite good; others strike me as a bit trivial...
What are you optimistic about?
Alfredo Posted Jan 1, 2007
What does that mean; "optimistic" ?
Greetings Alfredo, Amsterdamned 
What are you optimistic about?
Alfredo Posted Jan 1, 2007
Well, I just did read their credo;
"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!"
It reads like a 19th century obscure,European cult.
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