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<div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">— Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 7 Aug 2022, at 14:52, Jochen Fromm wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="embedded"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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 :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 8/7/22 8:56 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Starship and the Canoe </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:16 AM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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 book.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<br>
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