From: John Brockman <=a> To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: my book project Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:02:18 +0000 Attachments: Book_July6.docx Dear XXXX, As discussed, I am keen on producing an edited volume for our times as an update to Norbert Wiener's THE HUMAN USE OF HUMAN BEINGS, published sixty-six years ago. The plan is to ask 50 leading thinkers to read the book and help create a meta-book by writing new and original essays from their individual perspectives. I was very impressed by your 20xx book "xxxxxxxxx", and I am sure you would have insightful and interesting things to say. See attached file. I've been at this since 1965, when the composer John Cage reached across the table at dinner and handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would bring some NY artists I was working with at the Expanded Cinema Festival to a meeting to discuss how they were exploring cybernetic ideas. None of the people from the MIT-Harvard group (that also included Harold Edgerton and Anthony Oettinger) were called computer scientists because, at that time, there was only one computer at MIT. And I got to see it. Fifty-one years later, here I am, writing to you about Wiener and his vision. Interested? Hope you are enjoying your summer. Best, JB John Brockman mobile EFTA00824221