Epstein Secrets

he debate over how to manage an age when it was, for the first time, possible for humans to destroy the planet was colored still by fresh memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was charged too with the fear of communist expansion, not an unreasonable worry for Americans who had just fought a world war agains

ogy, 66: 2177-2186; Norbert Wiener Cybernetics, or control and communication in the animal and the machine (New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1948); Warren Weaver, “Science and complexity”, American Scientist, 36(4), 536 103 They are ordered: Carlos Gershenson, Peter Csermely, Peter Erdi, Helena Knyazeva, and

et about the production of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researc

had published a pair of lengthy articles in the Be// System Technical Journal. Introducing the new work to a broad readership in 1949, mathematician Warren Weaver explained that in Shannon’s formulation, “the word information...is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In par

et about the production of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researc

had published a pair of lengthy articles in the Be// System Technical Journal. Introducing the new work to a broad readership in 1949, mathematician Warren Weaver explained that in Shannon’s formulation, “the word information...is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In par