Epstein Secrets

olve a 189 Adding: Hillis thesis, p. 19 190 He drove: Po Bronson, “The Long Now: Time Traveling with Danny Hillis”, Wired (May, 1998) 191 Feynman: W. Daniel Hillis, “Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine” Physics Today February 1989, p. 78 192 “At times”: Michael J. Black “Book Reviews: The Connection Mach

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

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

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

, 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.

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