GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION t MICHAEL FASSBENDER - BEST ACTOR CULTURE "THE MOST PROVOCATIVE AND COMPELLING FILM OF THE YEAR" "ONCE SEEN, NEVER FORGOTTEN "MESMERISING" "OUTST1NtANDING" * * * * * "SEARINGLY BRILLIANT AND UTTERLY. ,UNMISSABLE" *:A:A* **** * * * * "MICHAEL FASSBENDER GIVES A SCORCHING PERFORMANCE" MICSASS BEN DE R IN CINEMAS FRIDAY Ii `Elites that are open and based on merit can be nurturing Continued from page 13 Brockman (1969), taking information theory - the mathematical theory of communications - as a model for regarding all human experience. A main theme has continued to inform my work over the years: new technologies = new perceptions. An incident from those years stands out. During an evening at dinner. Cage reached across the table and handed me a copy of Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener. Fast forward two years. Around 1967, I spent two days with Stewart Brand while he was assembling the first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog and we sat and read the book together. underlining as we went along. Central to our interest was the notion of 'feedback", the non-linear relationship of input to output. It was apparent that the ideas in cybernetic theory were far more important than the applications for which the mathematical descriptions were designed. Stewart and I have been in touch regularly since then - a 45-year connection. 1N Was it difficult to come up with Edge's 2010 question, about the Internet? JB Every August, I begin a conversation with three of the original members of Edge - Stewart, Kevin Kelly and George Dyson. Eventually, I came up with the idea of asking how the internet is affecting the scientific work, lives, minds and reality of the contributors. A big consideration of this question is the difference between "we" and "you". When people respond to "we" questions, their words tend to resemble expert papers, public pronouncements or talks delivered from a stage. "You" lead