Epstein Secrets

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

device that both served a purpose and sent a message. If there was an emotion it conveyed, a feeling that it tickled in the way Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne might inspire terror or joy or faith, it was meant to be awe. Stewart Brand, one of the supporters of the clock and an early member of the New Caste

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

ke sense out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consi

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

ke sense out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consi