What is your dangerous idea?

The following is an excerpt from an article in UK's Times Online, titled (and I love this title) "Why it can be a very smart move to start life with a Jewish momma":

LET ME take you to The Edge. Or more specifically, www.edge.org, an intriguing little website set up by John Brockman, the literary agent in New York responsible for catapulting science writers such as the neuropsychologist Steven Pinker into the big time...

An annual highlight is the Edge question, posed every January by Brockman to set the theme for the coming year. The 2006 teaser, announced yesterday, is this: what is your dangerous idea? Brockman describes it as “an idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?”

The answers have already started rolling in ... and how very provocative they are. Here is my pick of the crop...

Link to the article. Link to the Edge website.