More than a hundred leading intellectuals in the world share their not yet proven hypotheses, which in the near future may become obvious truth for us. In short essays devoted to a variety of topics - consciousness, evolution, extraterrestrial life forms, the future of humanity, the fate of the universe - the authors offer unexpected, passionate, sometimes eccentric and always thought-provoking ideas related to their scientific disciplines. Many of these world famous names are familiar to the Russian reader: Daniel Dennett, Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Martin Rees, John Horgan, Mihai Chiksentmihayi, Gary Marcus.