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From: Nathan Myhrvold To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:56:18 +0000 Hmm please keep this confidential He is very smart and personally quite impressive. There are a bunch of guys at MIT who do trendy research. Nicholas Negroponte was the first. He is a genuine visionary, and also a world class salesman/bullshit artist. He was originally an architecture professor, so wasn't a technical guy at all, but wound up starting the media lab at MIT. He is a friend of mine. The media lab was the start of the trendy research craze at MIT. Some of the media lab stuff was great science. Some was utter bullshit. It made bullshit acceptable, even desired, at MIT. Nicholas is still around but he inspired a second generation of MIT professors who started out as real scientists but tried to become visionaries a la Nicholas. Instead they became low grade bullshit artists without his vision. One example is globetrotting doing weird projects like putting wifi in a remote village in bhutan. Or claiming that everything they do is about helping the third world - like making a research lab for us by villagers in india. Neil is one of 2 or 3 rival heir apparents to nicholas. Some of his stuff is great. Some is utter crap. He defends it all. I have never figured where it nets out. From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto: Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 06:56 PM Pacific Standard Time To: Nathan Myhrvold Subject: neil gershenfeld thoughts? 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 [email protected], and EFTA00717834 destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00717835