Selection of good quotes from The Man from the Future

January 8, 2022

At the link below are a selection of good quotes from
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Hardcover by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Author)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIM00rGx28S0Z6cQiNhwAm8otpdphRttdabA03hPWgY/edit

(public doc: Selected-Good-Quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)

Further quotes I liked are at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noMiAy2maVVyPh94rEzEZbCwR6TPjZ2T223Hm5ylDZ0/edit

(a private doc: Full-List-of-Good-quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)

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Gray goo – Wikipedia

January 8, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

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Daniel Ellsberg – Wikipedia

January 7, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg

QT:{{”
While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government
decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,
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Self-replicating spacecraft – Wikipedia

January 7, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

von neumann probes

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Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958 – YouTube

January 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HfFvjSAHc

Penrose Wood replicator

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JCVI-syn3.0 – A synthetic genome stripped bare!

January 7, 2022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879981/

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JP 3-72, Nuclear Operations, 11 June 2019

January 7, 2022

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3_72.pdf

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‘Dr. Strangelove’ Is Basically a Documentary | WIRED

January 7, 2022

https://www.wired.com/2018/03/geeks-guide-doctor-strangelove/#:~:text=Strangelove%20was%20inspired%20by%20the,t%20the%20way%20it%20worked.%E2%80%9D

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Fat Man | The New Yorker

January 7, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man
Kahn, the bomb & Rand

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RepRap – RepRap

January 7, 2022

https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

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