Epstein Secrets

PROFILES THE VISIONARY A digital pioneer questions what technology has wrought. BY JENNIFER KAHN ("N ne day in June, Jaron Lanier was V lounging barefoot in the living room of his house in the Berkeley hills. Stretch- ing back on a wom sofa, he began musing about the connect

t objects. But I came by it honestly." Lanier's mother and father belonged to a circle of artists in Greenwich Village, but they moved soon after Jaron was born— on May 3,1960—first to Colorado, and then to a spot near El Paso, Texas, on the border with Mexico. The area was deso- late and impoveris

l over their private information. In neither case, Lanier said, would Weiner have sent his illicit snapshots. "What makes it erotic is the risk," Lanier speculated. "If you had either perfect competence or no need for competence, because everything was a hundred per cent transparent, there would b

ssed on the long game, not the item of the week Because the issues I'm talking about will take a long time to address." F or the past eight years, Lanier has lived in Berkeley, the mecca of techno-utopianism, in a ridgetop house that he shares with his wife, Lena, who is a child psychologist, and t

cebook's controversial de- ployment of facial-recognition software, which automatically scans uploaded pho- tos and identifies a user's friends. To Lanier, a computer scientist and author, the common thread is that the In- ternet in general—and social networking in particular—has become difficult for

tuart Kauffman, Kevin Kelly, Lawrence Krauss George Church Professor; Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome Project. EFTA00693753 Thanks Jaron and John, We are now growing at a pace that's fully exponential—with a doubling time of 1.5 years. If we are concerned with exponentials, then we m

n/the-myth-of-ai#25983 George Dyson Science Historian; Author; TURING'S CATHEDRAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE; DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES Jaron, as always, is articulate, and I agree with most of what he says. He (and others) however, seem to be ignoring the real elephant in the room: analog

Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spot George Church makes a very important point in his comment on your Edge discussion about the Lanier piece: that synthetic neurobiology and computing are going to be increasingly merging. While the human brain and body might not do many things as w

hael Shermer, Stuart Kauffman, Kevin Kelly, Lawrence Krauss George Church Professor; Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome Project. Thanks Jaron and John, We are now growing at a pace that's fully exponential—with a doubling time of 1.5 years. If we are concerned with exponentials, then we m

n/the-myth-of-ai#25983 George Dyson Science Historian; Author, TURING'S CATHEDRAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE; DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES Jaron, as always, is articulate, and I agree with most of what he says. He (and others) however, seem to be ignoring the real elephant in the room: analog

Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spot George Church makes a very important point in his comment on your Edge discussion about the Lanier piece: that synthetic neurobiology and computing are going to be increasingly merging. While the human brain and body might not do many things as w

hael Shermer, Stuart Kauffman, Kevin Kelly, Lawrence Krauss George Church Professor; Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome Project. Thanks Jaron and John, We are now growing at a pace that's fully exponential—with a doubling time of 1.5 years. If we are concerned with exponentials, then we m

n/the-myth-of-ai#25983 George Dyson Science Historian; Author, TURING'S CATHEDRAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE; DARWIN AMONG THE MACHINES Jaron, as always, is articulate, and I agree with most of what he says. He (and others) however, seem to be ignoring the real elephant in the room: analog

Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spot George Church makes a very important point in his comment on your Edge discussion about the Lanier piece: that synthetic neurobiology and computing are going to be increasingly merging. While the human brain and body might not do many things as w

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

ing father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace. Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epst

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

ing father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace. Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epst

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

ing father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace. Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epst

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

ing father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace. Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epst

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

ing father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace. Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epst