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To: John Brockman From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Wed 12/2/2009 9:14:51 AM Subject: Re: Gelemter could you arrang a call over the weekend? On Tue, Dec I, 2009 at 9:17 AM, John Brockman wrote: He's absolutely brilliant, and indeed I just invited him to be the American on a panel with me at DLD in Munich with the two leading German cultural journalists. While he's still a very good friend, I had to stop representing him because he's become seriously religious, culturally very far right. He still had serious medical issues and needs to travel with someone. Worth talking to? Absolutely. To know what's up with him, you need to know about the bombing. Here's a 1-minute trailer from a German feature movie http://www.edge.org/3rd culture/bios/brockman DasNetz.html --- Recent, with video. I got this event together when Ballmer and Microsoft began taking credit for Cloud Computing, which was Gelemter's idea. ... The central idea we were working on was this idea of dc-localized information — information for which I didn't care what computer it was stored on. It didn't depend on any particular computer. I didn't know the identities of other computers in the ensemble that I was working on. I just knew myself and the cybersphere, or sometimes we called it the tuplesphere, or just a bunch of information floating around. We used the analogy — we talked about helium balloons. We used a million ways to try and explain this idea. LORD OF THE CLOUD John Markoff and Clay Shirky talk to David Gelemter An Edge Roundtable http://www.edge.org/3rd culture/gclemter09/gelernter09 index.html ---Possibly the most lively EDGE event ever... THE SECOND COMING - A MANIFESTO [2001] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelemter_index,hrml INTRODUCTION David Gelemter EFTA_R1_00194618 EFTA01821403 "...prophesied the rise of the World Wide Web. He understood the idea half a decade before it happened." (John Markoff) "...is a treasure in the world of computer science...the most articulate and thoughtful of the great living practitioners" (Jaron Lather) "...is one of the pioneers in getting many computers to work together and cooperate on solving a single problem, which is the future of computing." (Danny Hillis) "...is one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time." (Bill Joy) --- from my book "Digerati" Chapter II THE CONSERVATIVE David Gelernter http://www.cduze.oraidocurnents/digerati/Gelernter.html *********************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to kin [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. EFTA_R1_00194619 EFTA01821404