Asian watcher Aimee Barnes looks keenly at Asia, sharing with us eight fortunes and coming misfortunes that’s forming off the mighty East’s boil.

Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Director of Research, The European Futures Observatory, softens the perturbed world economic world with some cautious assumptions that may help us all breathe a little easier.

Edge’s John Brockman poses his question of the year: What is your deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?  Jared Diamond, Douglas Rushkoff, Richard Dawkins, and 189 other visionaries answer kindly.