Epstein Secrets

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tions as simple ellipses, Bohr's explanation of the periodic table of =he elements in terms of electron shells, and Watson and Crick's double =elix. Einstein famously said that he did not need experimental =onfirmation of his general theory of relativity because it "was so =eautiful it had to be true." T

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

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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

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

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

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

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erse and complicated set of phenomena. > [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and > to S=ewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and George Dyson for their ongoing > advice and sup=ort.] > - > "Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasu=e in curiosity, a coll

determined by phenomena that lie well beneath the surface of our experience—phenomena that don't rely in any way upon our existence. In this sense, Einstein was wrong: "God" does appear to play dice with the universe, or universes. So far we have been lucky. But like playing at the craps table, our luck

ot implemented. Novel ideas generally stagnate and die without the courage to implement them. I bring this up here because perhaps the true mark of Einstein's ge- nius was not his mathematical prowess (although, contrary to conven- tional wisdom, he was mathematically talented), but his creativity and hi

er hope of a world where any dream, no matter how outlandish, is realizable. Other familiar names, Bohr, Schrodinger, Dirac, and later Feynman and Dyson, each made great leaps into the unknown. But they weren't alone. Physics is a collaborative discipline. Too often science stories are written as if

all that he did for us and for hi= fellow man." Harvey Gantt was a teenager in 1960. The Greensboro sit=

") 13. Refrigeration, 1850s "Discovering how to make cold would chang= the way we eat—and live—almost as profoundly as discovering how to cor=k." —George Dyson 14. Gunpowder, 10th century Outsourced killing to a machine 15. The airplane, 1903=/b> Transformed travel, warfare, and our view of =he world (see