2/ To count it must satisfy 3 conditions: i) the essay must produce a consequential idea internally, not merely convey consequential news
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Replying to @vgr
3/ It must ii) "disturb the peace" in some sense, outside the predictable institutional boundaries where it nominally has currency
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4/ And iii) it must address a potentially universal concern, not something that is fundamentally limited to a subculture
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Do long essays (aka "books") count? Natural Born Cyborgs http://e1020.pbworks.com/f/ClarkNBC.pdf Introduction is a standalone essay http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Clark-Natural-Born-Cyborgs-Intro.pdf …
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Have you read it yet? Will likely influence you if you do.
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No, but looking for things that have already had a big impact like Vannevar Bush's essay which basically created the Internet
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This was written only a little over a decade ago. Check it out. I'm not so big on what other people think so don't know. Good project though
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Replying to @davealevine
Sorry, then it doesn't count. I'm looking for essays that have already had a widespread, society changing impact, not random reading refs
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Here is a better one then. Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Maybe most important thing that happened in 20th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems …
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That's not an essay it's math. You're not getting the spirit of the question, so never mind
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It was published as an essay or a paper, but yeah, guess I don't get the concept. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Formally_Undecidable_Propositions_of_Principia_Mathematica_and_Related_Systems …
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