Email chain linking Jeffrey Epstein to John Brockman and a list of tech elites discussing EDGE annual question invitation

Date: Thursday, December 15 2011 02:57 AM Subject: Re: The Edge Annual Question 2012 - Invitation (Confidential) From: John Brockman FST To: jeffrey epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>; Keep it coming. JB On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM, jeffrey epstein wrote: > Mathematics ideals are universal truths , biology is intrinsically based in deception . Predators in search of free energy , would be able to decipher and consume , if it weren't couched ina multi layered encrypted form . Even self deception acts as a defensive strategy. More later > > Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:05 PM, John Brockman {nn wrote: > >> To: Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin. Hubert Burda, Steve Case. John Doerr, Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill Gates, Danny Hillis, Maja Hoffman, Bill Joy, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Vinod Khosla, Marissa Mayer, Kary Mullis Elon Musk, Nathan Myhrvold, Pierre Omidyar, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Jean Pigozzi, Nick Pritzker, Miuccia Prada, Eric Schmidt, Jacqui Safra, Ricardo Salinas Pilego, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Skoll, Craig Venter, Jimmy Wales, Evan Williams, Mark Zuckerberg >> >> Re: The EDGE Annual Question 2012 - Invitation to participate SS >> In the summer of 2009, in a talk at the Bristol (UK) Festival of Ideas, Freeman Dyson articulated a vision for the future. He referenced "The Age Of Wonder", by Richard Holmes, in which the first Romantic Age described by Holmes was centered on chemistry and poetry, while Dyson pointed out that this new age is dominated by computational biology. Its leaders, he noted, include "biology wizards" Kary Mullis, Craig Venter, medical engineer Dean Kamen; and "computer wizards" Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Charles Simonyi. He pointed out that the nexus for this intellectual activity — the Lunar Society for the 21st century — is centered around the activities of EDGE. >> >> Dyson continued to articulate his vision for a new age of biology ina related review inNew York Review of Books in which he wrote: "...a new generation of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet. Most of these artists would be amateurs, but they would be in close touch with science, like the poets of the earlier Age of Wonder. The new Age of Wonder might bring together wealthy entrepreneurs like Venter and Kamen ... and a worldwide community of gardeners and farmers and breeders, working together to make the planet beautiful as well as fertile, hospitable to hummingbirds as well as to humans." Sh >> So, along these lines, who can best articulate the important issues questions we face today than the very people who are, through their ideas and entrepreneurial zeal, changing the very nature of reality itself. Here's the 2012 Annual Question. Before sending it out widely to the list, it's useful to seed the project with a dozen or so interesting responses to provide examples and set a high bar. Even better, to inspire. How about it?? Hope to hear from you. JB ‘obs >> >> THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER >> >> 2012: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? >> >> http://edge.org/annual- question/what-is-your-favorite- deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation &view=draft HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023454