- By James Ledbetter, Richard A. Epstein, Lawrence Lessig, Ann Hulbert, Peggy Kaye, Paul Berman, A.O. Scott, Polly Shulman, Kurt Andersen, Edward Tenner, John Horgan, John B. Judis and Jonathan Rauch

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By James Ledbetter, Richard A. Epstein, Lawrence Lessig, Ann Hulbert, Peggy Kaye, Paul Berman, A.O. Scott, Polly Shulman, Kurt Andersen, Edward Tenner, John Horgan, John B. Judis and Jonathan RauchUpdated Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, at 7:50 PM ET

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James Ledbetter is the editor of The Big Money, Slate's business site, which will launch later this year. Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service professor of law at the University of Chicago and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He occasionally consults for PhRMA, the industry trade association, and Pfizer, the drug company. Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Harvard. Ann Hulbert is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children. Paul Berman is a New York writer. A.O. Scott is a film critic at the New York Times. Polly Shulman is the author of Enthusiasm, a novel for young adults. Kurt Andersen, the author of Turn of the Century, is now at work on his second novel. He's also the host of the public radio program Studio 360. Edward Tenner, a visiting scholar at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences and Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity. John Horgan is director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology and a correspondent for Bloggingheads.tv. John B. Judis is a senior editor of the New Republic. Jonathan Rauch is a senior writer for National Journal and a writer-in-residence at the Brookings Institution.

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