The new issue of ON is here.
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06Oct
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27May
Returning from what turned out to be his last vacation, President Roosevelt wrote to Harry Hopkins in the spring of 1944: “I had really a grand time down at Bernie’s. Slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, sat in the sun, never lost my temper, and decided to let the world go hang.
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09Sep
[ON magazine, Fall 2007]
The Inforati Files
Life in Information, According to Esther Dyson
By Tim Devaney and Tom SteinEsther Dyson certainly knows how to handle large volumes of information. Her résumé shows her to be a consummate multitasker. She is a board member of approximately 20 foundations, corporations, and associations. She’s a limited partner in the Mayfield Software Fund and the chair of EDventure Holdings, which she started. Recently, she has taken an interest in private space flight.
Meanwhile, Dyson remains one of the premier sources for analysis of information technology and its impact. We reached her at her office in New York City.
When did you first recognize the power of information?
My brother and I were always trying to one-up each other, and the most devastating thing I could say was that I already knew something he told me.
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09Sep
[ON magazine, Number 2, 2008]
THE INFORATI FILES
John Seely Brown chats about confusion, proteins, and the social life of information
By Tim Devaney and Tom Stein
In his past life, John Seely Brown was chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). In the simplest terms, his job was to shape the future.
During his tenure, Brown expanded the PARC staff, adding artists, linguists, anthropologists, and sociologists to a roster of world-class physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.
In 2000 he co-authored The Social Life of Information, a book that has steadily gained popularity since it was published. “It seems to be speaking to people in ways that even seven or eight years ago it was not,” Brown says.
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