5. The Killing of the Messenger
• First Autonomous Cross-Country Vehicle
– 1987 (Schwartzed to death)
• Discovered the “Web” in 1993 (at the Labs).
– “Saw” Arpanet 1969
– Telnet, email, FTP, Macs 1985, Lisp Machines
– WAIS, Gopher, Mosaic
– Home Web page 1993-95
• The Edge of Chaos talk. 1995 (It’s coming!!)
• “Laid off” 1995
– Art Chester (Lab director), “maybe they are lemmings”
– My lay-off party “hope to see you in the web”
(a little history)
6. The Future
• The Key Question is not what should be, but what
will be.
• On the other hand, the easiest way to predict the
future is to create it.
• Evolution will evolve, and there is nothing to stop
it. Moreover, the evolution of complexity will
involute and envolute and there is nothing to stop
it either.
Question: Within which edge of chaos/order are you?
7. You haven’t seen nothing yet:
Functional Complexity
Material Complexity AND Functional Complexity
8. It’s Trade, Stupid
• Keirsey.com
The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley
The Power of Pull, John Hagel & John Seely-Brown
(on Kindle, or iPad)
9. Some Adventures of a Viking Reader
and Bystander
I missed many signs too… Some examples
Paul Mockapetris (fellow grad student) DNS
Listened to the Aloha Net talk (the basis of Ethernet)
Obtained C Class Internet addresses for the Labs
Didn’t get Temperament.com, Lost Keirsey.org, Keirsey.net
Thought about buying Amazon at $8, now at ~$350
Keirsey.com survived the the Internet Bubble, by luck
Lessons of the Web:
1. It’s free*
2. It’s not exact (scruffy)
3. Replicative
4. Dissipative
5. “The Key Digital Infrastructure” was already there
AND REMEMBER THE WEB DID NOT MAKE ANY MONEY FOR
MOST IN THE BEGINNING.
10. Prediction is hard
• But creation of history is harder
– Predicted Machine Chess Champion
– Predicted black holes in center of all galaxies
– Predicted Artificial life (within five years)
• HOW and WHEN?
Autonomous Internet Digital Robots
Autonomous Internet Material Robots
11. I am a Scientist, Stupid
“Look, I can predict the future…”
Those who fail to learn from history …
Science is my Religion – Christian Huygens
Replication is the Dissipation of Order
Dissipation is the Replication of Disorder
Hyperbolic versus Euclidean Spaces
They are homeomorphic
12. Autonomous Digital Robots
• The future is here, just it’s not evenly
distributed (the “real Matrix”)
• The past is here and in the future, only it’s
not evenly distributed.
http://redstone.keirsey.com
13. Where’s the Beef
• Autonomous Vehicles versus Remotely Controlled
Vehicles
• This is semi-false dichotomy as the web (and
history) teaches us.
– GPS
• However, it is an important factor in the New New
Thing (the eighth edge of order)
– Metacompilers versus Compilers
please update your system….
(before his time) (de veju, all over again)
14. The Devil is in the: Details,
Details, …
First Key: The Concept -- Metacompiler
The problem: The Tower of Babel
15. Quick: A Solution
Metacompilers are a subset of a specialized class of
compiler writing tools called compiler-compilers.
The feature that sets a metacompiler apart from a
standard compiler-compiler is that a metacompiler
is written in its own language and [can] translate
itself. (Hacked from Wikipedia)
IN OTHER WORDS: A KIND of FUNCTIONAL
FIXED POINT
John Von Neumann (to John Nash) – “It’s just a
Fixed Point”
(what can I say, I am a hammer man)
16. Quick: A Nice Problem to have,
for some people.
• “Words, Words, Words, First I get them from him,
and now I get them from you. Is that all you
blighters can do?” – Eliza Doolittle
• Software here, Software there, Software
everywhere. Do you have a FXXXXXN (you
supply the language) program that you would like
converted?
• Software rot. New operating systems. Plenty of
jobs for lawyers and programmers.
17. What if?
What if a “program” (or process) could
“move” from one operating system to
another or from one computer “language”
to another, or from one representation to
another, AUTONOMOUSLY.
20. From Mountain Top
to Mountain Top
(Navigating in Cyberspace)
• Metacompilers -> migration from language
to language (through fixed points)
• Lie Algebras -> discrete => continuous
– Groups, subgroups (alphabets – fixed points)
• Semigroups (Krohn-Rhodes Bimachines)
22. A Tower of Babel: RDF
• Resource Description Framework is a
family of World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) specifications originally designed as
a metadata data model. It has come to be
used as a general method for conceptual
description or modeling of information that
is implemented in web resources, using a
variety of syntax formats.
28. There is more –VC pitch
• Companies are the dominant organisms of
Hypermetaman.
• 3D Printing, Self Assembly
• Strawberry Pi, Physical reconfiguration,
Adding processors, copying of processors.
33. Back to the Future
The central dogma of Neo-Darwinism that
DNA was the sole source of inheritance was
wrong.
There is the Procaryotic World: and
Eucaryotes operate similarly.
RNA (epigenetics): Rubisco
34. There is no such thing as
Self-Replication
Replication and Dissipation must go hand-in-
hand.
The Metaman substrate: Replication and
Dissipation of Humans, Animals, and
Machines.
The “Web” is Replicating and Dissipating
Humans and Machines: only faster.
36. Robototype Robot
The linotype machine consists of four
major sections:
Magazine
Keyboard
Casting mechanism
Distribution
PRODUCED components and ASSEMBLED them in a uniform process
