Edge poses its members an annual question: • 1998: "What questions are you asking yourself?" • 1999: "What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?" • 2000: "What is today's most important unreported story?" • 2001: "What questions have disappeared?" and "What now?" This was the only year with two separate questions. • 2002: "What is your question? ... Why?" • 2003: "What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?" • 2004: "What's your law?" • 2005: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" The responses generated were published as a book under the title ''
What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty'' with an introduction by the novelist
Ian McEwan. • 2006: "What is your dangerous idea"? The responses formed the book
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, which was published with an introduction by
Steven Pinker and an afterword by
Richard Dawkins. • 2007: "What are you optimistic about? Why?", which resulted in a companion publication. • 2008: "What have you changed your mind about?" and the corresponding book published shortly thereafter. • 2009: "What Will Change Everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" and a book version. • 2010: "How has the Internet changed the way you think?" and associated book. • 2011: "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?" and associated book. and associated book. • 2013: "What should we be worried about?" and associated book. and associated book. • 2015: "What Do You Think About Machines that Think" and associated book. • 2016: "What Do You Think the Most Interesting Recent [Scientific] News? What makes it Important?" and associated book. • 2017: "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" and associated book. • 2018: "What is the last-question?" ==Contributing authors==