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e referenced "The =ge Of Wonder", by Richard Holmes, in which the first Romantic Age =escribed by Holmes was centered on chemistry and poetry, while Dyson =ointed out that this new age is dominated by computational biology. Its =eaders, he noted, include "biology wizards" Kary Mullis, Craig Venter, =ed
rberg Re: The EDGE Annual Question 2012 - Invitation to participate In the summer of 2009, in a talk at the Bristol (UK) Festival of Ideas, =reeman Dyson articulated a vision for the future. He referenced "The =ge Of Wonder", by Richard Holmes, in which the first Romantic Age =escribed by Holmes was
e diverse and complicated set of =henomena. (Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and to =tewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and George Dyson for their ongoing advice =nd support.) "Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned =leasure in curiosity, a collective expr
December 14, 2011 8:06 PM To: Paul Allen; Jeff Bezos; Sergey Brin; Hubert Burda; Steve Case; John Doerr, Jeffrey Epstein; Tony Fadell; Bill Gates; W. Daniel Hillis; Maja Hoffmann; Bill Joy; Salar Kamangar; Dean Kamen; Vinod Khosla; Marissa Mayer; Kary Mullis; Elon Musk; Nathan Myhrvold; Pierre Omidyar, Larry P
s on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing ’s Cathedral. P
ul in all walks of life, and the dangers they incur of the carnal sins of pride and of lust for power.” This jeremiad did not go well for Wiener. As Dyson puts it: These alarms were discounted at the time, not because Wiener was wrong about digital computing but because larger threats were looming as h
bits. Neil Gershenfeld: Scaling Although machine making and machine thinking might appear to be unrelated trends, they lie in each other’s futures. W. Daniel Hillis: The First Machine Intelligences Hybrid superintelligences such as nation states and corporations have their own emergent goals and their actions ar
s on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing ’s Cathedral. P
ul in all walks of life, and the dangers they incur of the carnal sins of pride and of lust for power.” This jeremiad did not go well for Wiener. As Dyson puts it: These alarms were discounted at the time, not because Wiener was wrong about digital computing but because larger threats were looming as h
, Frank Wilczek, Max Tegmark, Jaan Tallinn, Steven Pinker, David Deutsch, Tom Griffiths, Anca Dragan, Chris Anderson, David Kaiser, Neil Gershenfeld, W. Daniel Hillis, Venki Ramakrishnan, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alison Gopnik, Peter Galison, George M. Church, Caroline A. Jones, Stephen Wolfram.
deeply about such matters participated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE e
Jean Pigozzi "J.E. Safra/Doumanian" , Eric Schmidt Jeff Skoll Yossi Vardi , Crai Venter Stephen Wolfram , Mark Zuckerberg Subject: Edge 322: W. Daniel Hillis: The Hillis Knowledge Web: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:05:42 +0000 Vinod Dean Kamen Marvin Minsky Elon Musk , Pierre
deeply about such matters participated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE e
chi Ito Vinod Dean Kamen Marvin Minsky Elon Musk • , Pierre Omid ar Pte Crai Venter Stephen Wolfram , Mark Zuckerberg , Subject: Edge 322: W. Daniel Hillis: The Hillis Knowledge Web: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:26:54 +0000 Nick Pritzker Ricardo Salinas , Charles , Ronna Tan
7 PM Subject: Edge Master Class U ate To: Jeffre E stein Cc: TO: Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Stewart Brand, Sergey Brin, David Brooks, George Church, George Dyson, Ari Emanuel, Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill Gates, W. Daniel Hillis, Bill Joy, Daniel Kahneman, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, Nathan
aul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Stewart Brand, Sergey Brin, David Brooks, George Church, George Dyson, Ari Emanuel, Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill Gates, W. Daniel Hillis, Bill Joy, Daniel Kahneman, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Elon Musk, Nathan Myhrvold, Pierre Omidyar, Tim O'Reilly, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Jean Pig
ients include Chris Anderson (Wired), Stewart Brand, Rodney Brooks, Nicholas Carr, George Church, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, George Dyson, Gerald Edelman, Michael Gazzaniga, Murray Gell- Mann, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Goleman, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, W. Daniel Hillis, D
amond, George Dyson, Gerald Edelman, Michael Gazzaniga, Murray Gell- Mann, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Goleman, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, W. Daniel Hillis, Daniel Kahneman, Eric ICandel,Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Joseph LeDoux, Andre Linde, Marvin Minsky, Benoit Mandelbrot (Estate), John Markoff, Mart
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From: John Brockma Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 4:38 PM To: Jeff Bezos; Stewart Brand; W. Daniel Hillis; George Dyson; Dean Kamen; Larry Page; Sergey Brin; Nathan Myhrvold; Brian Eno; Bill Gates; Ian McEwan; Annalena McAfee; Elon Musk; Nick Pritzker S
schel; Tim O'Reilly; Jennifer Jacquet; Jonathan Haidt; Freeman Dyson; Eric Kandel; Daniel Gilbert; Steven Pinker, Christopher Anderson; Larry Page; George Dyson; Ian McEwan; V.S. Ramachandran; Michael S. Gazzaniga; Sergey Brin; Salar Kamangac Sean Parker Elaine Page's; Anne Treisman; Martin Nowak; Nick Prit
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