Just finished watching/reading David Gelernter being interviewed by John Markoff and Clay Shirky. Spellbinding.
You can find the entire interview here in Edge. Thank you everyone at Edge.
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to run across a good deal of Gelernter’s works; Mirror Worlds was probably my favourite, though Muse in the Machine sometimes ran it pretty close.
If you want a quick taste of the way he thinks, take a look at the manifesto he wrote nearly a decade ago. How he visualised clouds and lifestreaming, in the same way as he visualised the Web and java a decade earlier.
I’m not going to say any more, I don’t want to spoil things for you. Just read it. While I go off and dig up my battered copy of Mirror Worlds to read again.
Object to fabric.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04/david-gelernter-manifesto.html
I am now moving Mirror Worlds out of my book shelf to my night stand to re-read. Thanks for the pointer to this, I completely missed it.
Hey Thomas, my pleasure. I’ve enjoyed re-reading it as well. Gelernter has that something extra.