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Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce professor of philosophy emeritus, was named the winner of the 1996 Inamori Foundation's Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences last Friday...
...creating games that kids can't resist. As a result, he's as revered as a rock star--and not just in Japan. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and movie directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have all traveled to Nintendo's famed E.A.D. (Entertainment Analysis and Development) lab in Kyoto to meet the man known as the Spielberg of video games...
...even as we jeer at the paper cherry blossoms fluttering off Kyoto lampposts, we may also envy the sense of continuity and history and community they enforce; and marvel at how a society can function like an orchestra, each person playing his part while attending to a common score. A country with a sense of seasons has greater respect for the old, and a clearer sense of tomorrow. That is why newspapers in Japan that meticulously chart the dates on which the leaves will fall may be precious in not just the derogatory sense. And why a Japanese would understand...
...meet them sooner than even these visionaries imagine. Within the next few weeks, in Kyoto, Japan, an ecobiologist and radically bottom-up computer theorist named Tom Ray will initiate an open-ended experiment he calls a "digital biodiversity reserve." A single, tiny, self-reproducing program will be loosed into a "virtual Internet" spread among hundreds of computers around the world. If all goes as earlier trial runs suggest, Ray's artificial "organisms" will quickly populate the network and begin to evolve...
...tells you the rest of a containment strategy: 1) a new security relationship with democratic India, now freed from its odd, cold war alliance with the Soviets; 2) renewing the U.S.- Japan alliance, now threatened by a U.S. Administration so hell-bent on selling carburetors in Kyoto that it is blithely jeopardizing the keystone of our Pacific security; and 3) cozying up to the Russians, who, however ornery elsewhere, have a common interest in boxing in China...