3
Shared Docs
2
Same-Page
5 / 3
Mentions
nct, become at once a tool of prosperity and survival. If you walk for a few minutes to the south of Tinanmen Square in Beijing, leaving the tomb of Mao Zedong behind you, there’s a small lane that runs back into a warren of anonymous, white-walled buildings. The streets are unusually clean; the surveillance
n. Huang was, in a sense, heir to the Warring States diplomat Su Qin, whom Master Nan had encouraged me to study. Huang had penetrated the madness of Mao’s revolutionary era to see the possibility of a different order, one he’d brought to vivid life after Deng Xiaoping ascended to the Chinese leadershi
e things we do want from connectivity. In fact - and this is Hulsted’s point — they are the things we want from connectivity, perverted into danger. Paul Baran would have been impressed to see just how right he was, how connections between us now are like irresistible gravity waves - and how gravity always w
y which really ancient tradition is preserved and carried forward for new generations. After a few years of study, Nan saw the descending madness of Mao’s China and slipped out of the mainland for Taiwan. He lived for decades between Taipei and Hong Kong and America. During this time his fame as a tea
76 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018308 Chapter Five: Fishnet In which we learn why networks spread so quickly. 1. In 1959 a young aeronautical engineer named Paul Baran, who had been working at Howard Hughes’ aircraft design factory in Los Angeles, arrived for his first day at work at a low-slung, modern building alo
ology, when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper. Cooper was a director of MIT’s
MAO YUSHI Chinese economist, 2012 Milton Friedman Liberty Award. (He wrote an online column criticizing the communist and totalitarian policies of Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) in China, attacked by Maoists in China.) http://www.cato.org /special/friedman/yushi/index.html YAO MING Retired Chinese basketball
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017569 →onomist, 2012 Milton Friedman Liberty Award. (He wrote an online column criticizing the communist and totalitarian policies of Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) in China, attacked by Maoists in China.) http://www.cato.org /special/friedman/yushi/index.html YAO MING Retired Chinese basketball player who las
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017569 →Entities connected to both Mao Zedong and Paul Baran

George W. Bush
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Condoleezza Rice
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Alan Dershowitz
PERSONDoug Band
PERSON
New York City
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSONCourtney Wild
PERSONLeon Black
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Prince Andrew
PERSON
Michael Jackson
PERSON
Samantha Power
PERSON
Donald Trump
PERSON
Prince Charles
PERSON
Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Paul Ryan
PERSON
John F. Kennedy
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON