I read “The Starship and the Canoe” quite a long time ago, and I
read a book (Baidarka) by George Dyson shortly after we moved to Seattle
in 1988.
I met him many years later. The director of the Institute for Advanced
Study was visiting Seattle, and there was a get-together at Charles
Simonyi’s in Seattle. My wife and I were invited because I had been a
member at IAS twice. Simonyi was one of my interviewers when I
interviewed for Microsoft, and after he left Microsoft he was (is?) the
chairman of the board of directors at the IAS because he had given them
boatloads of money. Anyway, George Dyson was there and we chatted for
about 15 minutes. At the time he was working on von Neumann’s
collected works — I don’t if anything was published from that
effort.
Another note. The second time I was at the Institute our oldest daughter
was in high school and complained it just wasn’t fair to have to
compete with one of Freeman Dyson’s daughters in her classes at
Princeton High.
— Barry
On 7 Aug 2022, at 14:52, Jochen Fromm wrote:
One reason why I like the FRIAM group: you stumble accidentally on a
book that looks interesting but in the FRIAM group at least one person
knows the author or has met him in Berkeley. Fascinating :)-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Merle Lefkoff
<[email protected]> Date: 8/7/22 8:56 AM (GMT-08:00) To: The
Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Starship and the Canoe One of my favorite
books, Jochen. It was written by Kenneth Brower, David Brower's son.
For those of you in a different generation, David was one of the
founders of the environmental movement in the 70's and founded many
organizations, including Friends of the Earth. However, he made one
fatal mistake in his career. He had the authority to help make the
decision to trade Glen Canyon for Dinosaur National Park (never
having visited Glen Canyon). I knew David well, and he never got
over what he had done.On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:16 AM Jochen Fromm
<[email protected]> wrote:In a small shop in Tofino on Vancouver
Island I spotted a nice book named "The Starship and the Canoe" about
George Dyson and his father. Apparently George lived for a long time
in a tree house in British Columbia while his father was thinking
about building atomic rockets that could reach Mars. Interesting
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