Epstein Secrets

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

e need a new set of guiding metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016911 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of Ho

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

e need a new set of guiding metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016328 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of Ho

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc

nd the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of Ho

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc

nd the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of Ho