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to truth” or - and this turned out to be the really 91 “When I came to the words”: Preserved Smith, The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911) Introduction 67 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018299 violent shift - “from citizen to citizen as equals”? The Church was merely one of many institutions

cientists John Padgett and Walter Powell, after considering examples of epochal, collapsing change in political and biological systems of all sorts - Renaissance finance markets, coral reefs, innovation clusters, and others - summed up their conclusions in a little koan-like package of logic: “In the short run

e system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such 173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246 174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford: Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119 119 HOUS

!. The mouse. Laser printing. A graphical user interface. PARC was arguably the most economically significant small group in human history, an entire Renaissance packed into a couple of dozen offices. Just as the nations that produced the finest mariners once dominated global commerce and decided political que

ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016928 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc

American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times through the Renaissance, Arthur Koestler identified a tension that has marked the most dramatic leaps of our cosmological imagination. In reading the great works of Nicolaus

ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016345 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc

American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times through the Renaissance, Arthur Koestler identified a tension that has marked the most dramatic leaps of our cosmological imagination. In reading the great works of Nicolaus