Magic + Loss

Magic + Loss

How Edge incubated the Intellectual Dark Web

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Virginia Heffernan
Mar 08, 2022
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On Feb. 26, I spoke about the dynamics of Edge on “Decoding the Gurus.”

Chris Kavanaugh and Matt Browne asked excellent questions and were especially interested in the way Edge had incubated the Intellectual Dark Web.

Like Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex trafficker and child rapist, I was once in John Brockman’s circle of—well, he unfailingly called u…

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