Epstein Secrets

on rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would he to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The first thing you notice about Brockman, though, is the interesting way he bridges CP Snow's "Two Cultures"

, who performed in conjunction with talks by Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace. Brockman is best known for Edge.org. a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art

durch den wissenschaftlichen Text, zusammen mit Stewart Brand, seinem Freund. der bald den Whole Earth Cata- l

en ist, die Kunst und die Wissenschaft und die psychedelischen, sen Stroboskopblitzen durchzuckten Shows, durch deren Klanggewirr ein Mar- shall McLuhan seine kommunikationstheo- retischen Botschaften posaunt. Im Esalen Institute, dein kaliforni- schen Bewusstseinslabor am Pazifik, hört er Vorträge

on rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would be to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The first thing you notice about Brockman, though, is the interesting way he bridges CP Snow's "IWo Cultures"

G, who performed in conjunction with talksby Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace, Brockman is best known for Edgeorg, a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art

. 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

from lots of the responses (and not just Nick Carr's, either). And the meme about our tools shaping us surfaced again and again in the essays. 18 McLuhan is certainly central to INSIDE TRACK Edge members share their opinions about MARTIN REES Ex-president of the Royal Society, professor of cosmolog

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

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha

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

Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha