Suggesting a Steem question of the year for 2025

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw

For most of two decades, something that I looked forward to reading every year was the Edge question of the year.

Each year, the site's editor, John Brockman, would propose a question to a whole bunch of interesting thinkers and then at the beginning of the year he would post their answers on the edge.org web site. It would normally be February or March before I found time to read all the answers.


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One of my favorite contributors every year was Freeman Dyson, another was Daniel Dennett, and yet another was David Chalmers.

Unfortunately, Brockman stopped posting questions in 2018. Every year after that, I still miss reading the insightful answers that his correspondents used to provide.

Here are the questions that Brockman asked from 1998 through 2018:

Since Edge left the playing field, I thought it might be fun to propose a Steem annual question. I've adapted one from a response by Alun Anderson as an answer to the 2018 question. Anderson asked,

Are people who cheat vital to driving progress in human societies?

So, borrowing the idea: Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to answer the following question before January 1, 2025 and to post your answer using the tag #steemq2025.

2025Do human organizations need cheaters? Why or why not?

If you don't like my question, feel free to craft your own.

I'm a fan of AI for many purposes, but I'm not interested in reading LLM prattle on this topic. Human responses only, please😉.

Thank you for your time and attention.

As a general rule, I up-vote comments that demonstrate "proof of reading"
*** Unless it looks like an AI wrote it ***
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Steve Palmer is an IT professional with three decades of professional experience in data communications and information systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in computer science, and a master's degree in information systems and technology management. He has been awarded 3 US patents.


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