Epstein Secrets

in India to test minimally invasive education called the “Hole in the Wall Project’. As the name suggests, he cut a hole in the wall of a building in Delhi and put a computer in it. The hole opens out onto a slum district and local children rapidly discovered the computer. Without any formal training the

roof of the existence of God. Surely God is a complication unnecessary to the explanation of our Universe. The argument is illustrated beautifully in Carl Sagan’s book Contact and the film of the same name. God gets the last laugh in Sagan’s book when the difficulty with Occam’s Razor is brought into sharp fo

Snowden made a ten-day trip: Harris, “What Was Edward Snowden Doing in India?” Also, Shilpa Phadnis, “Edward Snowden Sharpened His Hacking Skills in Delhi,” Times of India, Dec. 4, 2013. 33 “It is a dead-end job”: Former Booz Allen official who requested anonymity, interview with author. 33 shaded by

nowden may have carried out”: Drumheller, interview with author. 153 As Snowden acknowledges: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 154 “absence of evidence”: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 49. 154 “The greatest trick”: Cherkashin, interview with author. The quotation from The Usual Suspects was

Harris, “What Was Edward Snowden Doing in India?” Foreign Policy, Jan 13, 2014. Also, Shilpa Phadnis, “Edward Snowden sharpened his hacking skills in Delhi.” Zimes of India, December 4, 2013 ““Tt is a dead end...” Author’s interview with a former Booz Allen employee, who requested anonymity. (Hereinafte

rried...”—Author’s interview with Tyler Drumheller. 13. “As Snowden acknowledged, he...”-- Bamford, Wired, op.cit. 14. “Absence of evidence is...” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, New York) 1980. P. 49 15. “We have many notable cases...” For the cases of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A 1

“SURVIVING THE CENTURY’ The inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture Cornell University, 8 May 2017

4 centuries of North Atlantic hegemony. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026732 --- PAGE BREAK --- And there’s more urbanization. Even by 2030 Lagos, San Paulo and Delhi will have populations above 30 million. To prevent megacities becoming turbulent dystopias will surely be a major challenge to governance. Populatio

ole people’s toenails. . But sensor technology, speech recognition, information searches and so forth are advancing apace. But it’s in deep space -- Carl Sagan’s special arena-—that robots will surely be transformative. During this century the whole solar system will be explored by flotillas of miniaturized p