update
JE,
Strangely, the usual billionaire crowd is not showing up for this one, so I am running hard to revision it as a serious science event, inviting more third culture intellectuals and also the global press (NYTimes, WSJ NYorker, Economist, etc.) Ultlimately it will be a much stronger and more important event, but it's not the one advertised to you. The list status is below. (Btw, I hope you will come (Martin and Pinker would be very happy if your showed up) but will understand if you want out.
ICahneman thinks that beginning two years ago a lot of the usual suspects have had very good reasons not to like each other or want to be in the same room together for more than a meal. That's the sense I got a year and a half ago when at my dinner when Larry Page and Bill Joy (separately) were expressing their unhappiness about certain other friends of yours. This was after I suggested dong an even in Seattle.
In any event, what would really help us out is getting David Brooks to Napa and, if you're in the mood, some support for the event.
JB
Key Information:
- Name: John Brockman
- Title: President, Edge Foundation, Inc.
- Contact: Mobile (redacted), Tel (redacted), Fax (redacted)
- Website: http://www.edge.org
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THE AGENDA
"WHAT'S NEW IN HUMAN NATURE" examines the sweep of endeavors examining how humans work, through biology, cooperation, culture change and how that will impact how we view justice. V.S. RAMACHANDRAN presents what we are as understood by studying broken brains. Then MARTIN NOWAK goes beyond that and sees how social interactions become the niche we human seem to thrive in. STEVEN PINKER sees all of this and but ultimately views how all of this is modified by culture and its changing values. Finally, MICHAEL GAZZANIGA presents how all of this is not idle intellectual knowledge but seeps into the public psyche and begins to define how we view such things as justice.
STUDENT BODY (Invitation List)
EDGE MASTER CLASS 2011 - INVITATION LIST (1confirmed; x regrets; * maybe)
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| Paul Allen, Investor; Philanthropist; Co-Founder, Microsoft; Chairman, Vulcan; Idea Man |
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| Jeff Bezos, Founder, CEO, Amazon |
| -4 Stewart Brand, Biologist, Long Now Foundation; Whole Earth Discipline |
| Sergey Brin, Co-founder, Director Special Projects, Google |
| -4 Max Brockman, VP, Brockman, Inc.; What's Next |
| * David Brooks, New York Times Columnist; News Hour Commentator; The Social Animal |
| George Church, Genomics Researcher, Harvard Medical School |
| -4 George Dyson, Science Historian; Darwin Among the Machines |
| X Ari Emanuel, CEO, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment |
| -4 Jeffrey Epstein, Money Manager, Science Philanthropist; Jeffrey Epstein Foundation |
| -4 Tony Fade11, Former Senior VP, iPod, iPhone Dvision, Apple |
| Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Chairman, Microsoft; Co-Founder, Gates Foundation; The Road Ahead |
| -4 W. Daniel Hillis, Computer Scientist, Applied Minds; Pattern On The Stone |
| Bill Joy, Co-Founder Sun Microsystems; Partner, Kleiner, Perkins |
| -4 Daniel Kahneman, Psychologist, Princeton, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 |
| Salar ICamangar, Senior VP, Google; CEO, YouTube |
| x Dean Kamen, Inventor, Entrepreneur; CEO, Deka Research |
| Dave Morin, Former Executive, Facebook; Co-founder, Path |
| x Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Solar City |
| * Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, LLC, The Road Ahead |
| X Pierre Omidyar, Founder, Chariman, eBay; Founder, Omidyar Network |
| x Tim O'Reilly, Founder, O'Reilly Media, O'Reilly Radar |
| X Larry Page, CoFounder, CEO, Google |
| -4 Sean Parker, Founders Fund; Co-Founder Napster; Co-Founder, Founding President, Facebook |
| x Jean Pigozzi, Investor, Art Collector; High-Tech Ecological Researcher, Liquid Jungle Lab, Panama |
| Ricardo Salinas Pilego, CEO, Grupo Salinas, Grupo Elektra |
| -4 Nicholas Pritzker, Chairman, President, Hyatt Development Corporation |
| J.E. (Jacqui) Safra, Investor, Art Collector; Encyclopwdia Britannica, Spring Mountain Vineyards |
| Charles Simonyi, Former Chief Software Architect, Microsoft; Co-Founder, Intentional Software |
| Jeff Skoll, Former President, eBay; Founder, Participant Media |
| -4 Anne Treisman, Psychologist, Princeton |
| -4 Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; CEO, Synthetic Genomic; A Life Decoded |
| Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder, Wikipedia |
| x Evan Williams, Founder, Blogger; Co-Founder, Twitter |
| Mark Zuckerberg, Co-Founder, CEO, Facebook |
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