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26 Jan 2022 Conversations with Tyler Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
“Yes, I think there’s some motivations for all of that. And then I paid very close attention — as I started to pay attention to things — to the research library in electronics that was going on at MIT.”
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- 26 Jan 2022
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…Am I correct in thinking of you as somehow taking the research environment of World War II, the notion of threat, but redeveloping the ideas of the computer and the network forum to put forward some more optimistic, also more decentralized, vision of the future? Yes, I think there’s some motivations for all of that. And then I paid very close attention — as I started to pay attention to things — to the research library in electronics that was going on at MIT. They were studying Shannon’s version of information. They were studying how communications — electronic communications and then digital communications — were transforming humanity, basically. That was a set of premises. This was before we had Moore’s law, but I had a sense of a self-enhancing process that was going to not just change everything once, but change it many times. That’s what exponentials do. They keep going. I sort of rode that wave of an engineering understanding of civilization that I have to this day. How is it that you became such a decentralist?…
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