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Ep. 6 | Superintelligence, Fusion, and Faith | Marc Porat
Our special guest for Episode 6 is one of Silicon Valley’s most influential and persuasive visionaries. Marc Porat’s Ph.D. thesis at Stanford created the very definition of what he called the Information Society, predicting with startling accuracy how data was to become the oil of the post-industrial economy.
Marc joined Apple from the Aspen Institute in 1989, tasked with charting the company’s path into the post-destktop computing future. He did far more than that. With Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, co-creators of the Macintosh, he founded General Magic, which Apple spun out jn 1990 to…
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