Epstein Secrets

ATTENDEES To date, the following have rsvp'd: • Stewart Brand, Founder, The Whole Earth Catalog; Co-Founder, =h

der, =he Well; Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation; Author, Whole Earth =iscipline • Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), =IT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; Founder, Chairman =nd CTO of Rethink Robotics. • George Dyson, Science Historian; Author, Project Orion; =uring's

. Cage reached across the table and handed me a copy of Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener. Fast forwani two years. Around 1967,1 spent two days with Stewart Brand while he was assembling the first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog and we sat and read the book together, underlining as we went Montt Central

ed and debated. More fundamentally. it changes how research is done, what might be discovered and how students learn. JON KLEINBERG Professor of Computer Science. Comel University When I first used an Internet seach engine n the early 1990s. I imagined myself dipping into a vast. universal library. a muse

connected change, sure, but also by a desire for ever faster clock speeds, ever speedier delivery, ever faster 179 “Civilization is revving itself’: Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. (New York: Basic Books, 1999) 2 129 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018361 processing. They had lived this. E

ical Mediation — Philosophy, Sociology, Geneaology” in Common Knowledge, Fall 1994 Vol 3 No 2. p. 23 167 It suggests other dangers: Leslie Lamport, “Computer Science and State Machines”, Contribution to a Festschrift honoring Willem-Paul de Roever on his retirement” (Redmond: Microsoft Research, 2008). In its enti