From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com> To: John Brockman Subject: Re: Gelernter Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:14:51 +0000 could you arrang a call over the weekend? On Tue, Dec 1, 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 httplAvww.edge.org/3rd_culture/biosibrockman_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 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.edg rg/3rd culture/gelemter09/gelemter09 index.html ---Possibly the most lively EDGE event ever... THE SECOND COMING - A MANIFESTO [2001] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelemter/gelemter_index.html INTRODUCTION David Gelemter "...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