(2004-06-21) Battelle Applied Minds

John Battelle visited Applied Minds. After chit chatting for a few minutes, he took me to a small room - no wider than my outstretched arms - at the far end of which stood one of those classic red English phone booths. We stepped inside - a bit cramped - and Danny lifted the receiver and dictated a passphrase of some sort. Presto - the rear wall of the booth opened, and we stepped into - nerdvana....

And: we ranged from his idea of Aristotle, a (Diamond Age) Primer-like AI tutor, to creating an Economy Of Ideas through a new kind of search infrastructure.