Epstein Secrets

n. and Munger have already figured out. In fact, that's our tagline. It reminds me of something Munger said once when asked what he learned from Einstein, and he replied, only half- jokingly. "Well he taught me relativity. I wasn't smart enough to figure that out on my own." That seems like a bit

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Long Now project, then, was like one of those carefully isolated arctic freezers, where samples of essential grains and DNA from Beethoven’s hair and Einstein’s brain are sunk and iced against the godforbid day in which our basic feedstock or a chunk of humanity has been wiped out by accident or disaster. B

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connected change, sure, but also by a desire for ever faster clock speeds, ever speedier delivery, ever faster 179 “Civilization is revving itself’: Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. (New York: Basic Books, 1999) 2 129 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018361 processing. They had lived this. E

day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of impris

is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré ’s Maps: Empires of Time. Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré ’s Maps: Empires of Time. Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of

day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of impris

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

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a bill to decriminalize marijuana) and Supervisor Harvey Milk (a dedicated gay activist)—and yet, after an

to the concept of “dirty money.” As a result, my teeth were in terrible shape. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015452 | had known better. Back in 1971, publisher Stewart Brand had invited Ken Kesey and me to co-edit 7he Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. Our managing editor, Hassler (Ron Bevirt’ s Merry Prankster