To start off each year, a question is asked of the Edge membership, an informal group that includes some of the most interesting minds in the world. The question of 2005 is: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"
Of those who responded: -
BRUCE STERLING believes we're in for climatic mayhem.
SIMON BARON-COHEN believes that the cause of Autism will turn out to be assortative mating of two hyper-systemizers.
I believe that I'm experiencing a major case of deja vu after reading all the comments at Kottke.org.
I believe that file-sharing isn't killing the music industry.
I believe that it would benefit the Western world economically in the long term to write off the Third World Debt as it hindering their economic growth and preventing them from becoming markets that we can sell stuff to.
I believe that the expiry of the copyright in the UK of Elvis Presley's That's All Right is a good thing and will spawn creative remixes that will invigorate the music industry in a similar way to the effect Elvis had on the industry in the 1950s.
I believe that time travelling backwards in time is possible. Perhaps that is why I have deja vu.
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