{"id":983,"date":"2017-04-24T04:27:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/dinner-at-edge-28"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:39:57","slug":"dinner-at-edge-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/04\/24\/dinner-at-edge-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Edge 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Editor: Has potential, but lacks momentum until a vector is adumbrated for the answer]<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year Edge.org designs a question for the leading intellectuals and innovators to pit against their visions, with the hope that the rest of us may thus gain some insight into their mind and understanding[I]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After deliberate deliberation, we will be reincarnating our approach which had become stale and was kowtowing (by way of causality) to a decline in audience numbers. Instead of text-based answers, with or without audio-visual appendum, we will be using the newly developed Magic Dinner meta simulator.<\/p>\n

(Legal stuff: We have acquired the MD intellectual property for Europe, Asia, and Luna, but will be published exclusively as creative commons p=i: All expressions exist as hypothetically alternative realities<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Our question for 2027 is thus:<\/p>\n

Who do you wish was present at every meal in 2028 to prevent another 2027-esque[II]<\/sup><\/a> disappointment?<\/strong>
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<\/div>\n[I]<\/sup><\/a> See https:\/\/www.edge.org\/annual-questions<\/a> for the list of all questions from 1998.<\/em><\/p>\n

[II]<\/sup><\/a> “The suffix -esque<\/strong>\u00a0means \u201clike\u201d or \u201cresembling.\u201d You can add -esque\u00a0to almost any noun, including proper nouns. Use restraint. Too many -esque\u00a0words in the same passage may seem clumsy and repetitive. Don’t pile on redundant suffixes that mean the same thing as -esque(e.g., \u201cpicturesque-like\u201d)”. For further details see https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/esque\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Editor: Has potential, but lacks momentum until a vector is adumbrated for the answer] Every year Edge.org designs a question for the leading intellectuals and innovators to pit against their visions, with the hope that the rest of us may thus gain some insight into their mind and understanding[I]. After deliberate deliberation, we will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,103,154,273],"tags":[],"metadata":[171,156],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-essay","category-google-drive","category-satire","metadata-editors-footnotes","metadata-shais-editorial-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1687,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/05\/09\/gariwerd-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":983,"position":0},"title":"Gariwerd","author":"Pala","date":"May 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a 'draft' entry in Everything2 and is published here with minor changes. 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