Results for “Dreams of Reason: The Rise of the Science of Complexity”

…res like John Paulson and Mike Novogratz, geniuses who have created stratospheric wealth beyond Gordon Gekko 's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. This past...

…journey had led me down. Here I was jet setting around the world in my teens and getting paid to study the course of my dreams at a cost that I only knew I would have to pay. It was a wonderful get together with all of them around, a great way to remember them. If I’d only known...

…nship: The US and China Since 1972 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992); David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations, 1989-2000 (Berkeley: University of California, 2001); James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship w...

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…ther unpublished material— opens the book even further. But beyond the written record lies a trove of memories, ideas, dreams, conversations, actions, inactions, passions, joys, and feelings not easily subject to characterization or categorization. Fortunately, I have a very goo...

…s. Their revolution (and its IPOs) had paid for the clock, frankly. And the hope for “instant world” had inspired their dreams long before deep, fast connections were possible. Bezos’s first name for Amazon, Cadabara, captured just this sense of waving wands and the eye-blink “No...

…idding or their investing, he’s helping them to imagine the ambitions of their wealth. They’ve satisfied their business dreams. Now there are the separate challenges and possibilities of their actual wealth. In essence, as he becomes more public the response to this, as a functi...

…tions. Transformation as a loss of stability is a theme of a recent poetic translation of portions of the Zohar called Dreams of Being Eaten Alive by David Rosenberg. He writes that at some time in the difficult journey through the often- incomprehensible Zohar, in order to gain...

…oken or lost. Children become empowered by the machines and can access knowledge and information far beyond the wildest dreams of their parents’ generation. Stories abound of children checking the spot prices for wheat or coffee on the Chicago Stock Exchange, and advising their p...

…$5,000 lent him by his aunt. “Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who had the potential to realize his [Jeffrey’s] dreams,” says someone who has worked closely with both men. “He gave Jeffrey the ball, and Jeffrey hit it out of the park.” Wexner, through a trust, bought the...

…ires like John Paulson and Mike Novogratz, geniuses who have created stratospheric wealth beyond Gordon Gekko's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well as hedge funders, taking no screen credit. This past...

…s to telephone networks to refugee waves, are assembled by composition. Curriences are layered with encryption. Refugee dreams carved from photosharing and refined with GPS. Composition in this way breeds new vulnerabilities, new points of contact and this rather astonishing resu...

…ust doing their bidding or their investing, but helping them to navigate the ambitions of their wealth. If they had big dreams before, it’s nothing to what they can have now. If early in his career he might have seemed like a sort of George Peppard (there’s a physical resemblanc...

…path that led to current automated weapons systems, Uber’s ill-disguised hostility to human workers, and the capitalist dreams of Google. Now we must turn back to left cybernetics—theoretical biologists and anthropologists engaged with a trans-species understanding of intelligent...

…path that led to current automated weapons systems, Uber’s ill-disguised hostility to human workers, and the capitalist dreams of Google. Now we must turn back to left cybernetics—theoretical biologists and anthropologists engaged with a trans-species understanding of intelligent...