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From: John Brockman < INIMI>
To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Gelernter
Date: The, 01 Dec 2009 14:17:42 +0000
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 Gelernter's idea. ...
The central idea we were working on was this idea of de-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 Gelernter
An Edge Roundtable
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter09/gelernter09_index.html
---Possibly the most lively EDGE event ever...
THE SECOND COMING - A MANIFESTO [2001]
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter/gelernter_index.html
INTRODUCTION
David Gelernter
"...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 Lanier)
"...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 11
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THE CONSERVATIVE
David Gelernter
http://www.edge.org/documents/digerati/Gelernter.html
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