Epstein Secrets

m JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MU

greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed HUO. The prior evening, waiting in the lounge at JF

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M

m JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MU

greeted me as I turned on my phone at the baggage carousel at Malpensa Airport after the long flight from JFK. “The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. You MUST, repeat MUST pay him a visit.” It was signed HUO. The prior evening, waiting in the lounge at JF

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M

Penguin Press National Pub date: February 19, 2019 Title: DEEP THINKING Subtitle: 7wenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI By: John Brockman Length: 90,000 words Headline: Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have b

ener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts

Penguin Press National Pub date: February 19, 2019 Title: DEEP THINKING Subtitle: 7wenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI By: John Brockman Length: 90,000 words Headline: Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have b

ener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts