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various disciplines to talk and interact with each other. Participants included a who's who of cutting edge scientific intellectuals: H. Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Julian H. Bigelow, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, F.S.C. Northrop, Walter Pitts, Arturo Rosenthbleuth, John Von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Heinz Vo
A. Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judea Pearl, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Venki Ramakrishnan, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, and Stephen Wolfram. Stewart Brand, in his jacket blurb, nicely frames the project: "Intelligences born and intelligences made have
Banerjee, Economist, MIT Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Notre Dame Simon Baron-Cohen, Neuroscientist, Cambridge University Gregory Bateson (Estate), Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, Anthropologist, George Mason Univeristy Yochai Benkler, Internet Legal Expert, Harvard Benjamin B
cist, Cornell Leonard Susskind, Physicist, Stanford Nassim Taleb, Mathematical Trader & Essayist, New York Timothy Taylor, Archeologist, Bradford Max Tegmark, Physicist, MIT Richard Thaler, Behavioral Economist, U. Chicago Graduate School of Business Frank Tipler, Physicist, Tulane John Tooby, Evolution
nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee
pectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Da
nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee
pectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Da
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