Connection Machine designer, Long Now co-founder, Agus's proteomics partner — three of this record's threads in one person
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Danny Hillis — the famous technologist of the Connection Machine — occupies a junction this record finds almost suspicious: he worked for Eric Haseltine at Disney Imagineering; he co-founded the Long Now Foundation with Stewart Brand, Peter Schwartz and others, which is where Jonathan Hare met him; and he worked with David Agus on a proteomics venture, which is the record's Agus thread arriving from a third direction. The mudflats neighbor, the intelligence-community chief scientist, and the oncologist-mentor all connect through one man, and the record marks the density without forcing a story onto it. His own account is the standing ask.
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Chief scientist, and five doctorates in one room
Open →co-founded the Long Now Foundation withWhole Earth Catalog — and a neighbor on the mudflats
Open →the proteomics venture withBill Haseltine's introduction; the oncologist to Redstone, the moguls and Andy Grove; a major mentor — and the relay request on this page is live
Open →Everything above is a distillation. The primary source is published in full, so that any claim on this page can be walked back to what was actually said — and where the two differ, the source governs.
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