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(with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis is an inventor, entrepreneu

nvitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, George wrote an essay, “Turing’s Cathedral,” which, for the first time, alerted the public about what Google 's founders had in store for the world. “We are

rs since: “new technologies = new perceptions.” Inspired by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, architect-designer Buckminster Fuller, futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologists Edward T. (Ned) Hall and Edmund Carpenter, I started reading avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, an

nvitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, George wrote an essay, “Turing’s Cathedral,” which, for the first time, alerted the public about what Google 's founders had in store for the world. “We are

(with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis is an inventor, entrepreneu

rs since: “new technologies = new perceptions.” Inspired by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, architect-designer Buckminster Fuller, futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologists Edward T. (Ned) Hall and Edmund Carpenter, I started reading avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, an

oerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benja

J. Andrade e Silva, P. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Sir Arthur Eddington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Butler Yeats, John McHale, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Ihab Hassan, T. E. Hulme, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, David Pears, Main Robbe-Grillet, Victor Gioscia, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, N

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ficeOne beats and . . . Be merely oneself% 117. Eliot, aceFour Quartets,fi op. cit., p. 114. aceA people without . . . Of timeless moments.ft 118. John McHale, correspondence. Sec McHale, John, The Future of the Future (New York: George Broodier, 1969). ficeAhistory: Amen.A 119 Eliot, aceFour Quartets,fi